Rick Warren's Bible Study Methods Quotes

“It seems we are often guilty of being more interested in defending God’s Word than in studying it.”
― Rick Warren, Rick Warren's Bible Study Methods: Twelve Ways You Can Unlock God's Word

“El doctor Charles Thompson invirtió más de 30 años para compilar su extenso sistema práctico de referencias cruzadas.”
― Rick Warren, Metodos de estudio biblico personal: 12 formas de estudiar la Biblia tu solo

“Memorice el Salmo 119:18 y órelo antes de cada estudio: «Abre mis ojos para que pueda ver las maravillas de tu ley». Pídale a Dios que le abra los ojos a su Palabra.”
― Rick Warren, Metodos de estudio biblico personal: 12 formas de estudiar la Biblia tu solo

“4. Pase un tiempo breve en oración antes de cada estudio. Para empezar, pídale al Señor que limpie su vida de todo pecado que él conozca y lo llene de su Santo Espíritu para que usted esté en su compañía durante el estudio.”
― Rick Warren, Metodos de estudio biblico personal: 12 formas de estudiar la Biblia tu solo

“2. Tenga lista una libreta de apuntes. Como lo hemos dicho anteriormente, no es posible estudiar la Biblia sin tomar notas de lo que haya observado.”
― Rick Warren, Metodos de estudio biblico personal: 12 formas de estudiar la Biblia tu solo

“Si, por otra parte, una persona ha ido a la Escuela Dominical regularmente, desde que nació hasta los sesenta y cinco años, solo habrá tenido un total de cuatro meses de enseñanza bíblica sólida.”
― Rick Warren, Metodos de estudio biblico personal: 12 formas de estudiar la Biblia tu solo

“«He visto que aun la perfección tiene sus límites; ¡sólo tus mandamientos son infinitos!» (Salmo 119:96).”
― Rick Warren, Metodos de estudio biblico personal: 12 formas de estudiar la Biblia tu solo

“Give the chapter a short, descriptive title. The shorter the title, the more likely you will remember it. In fact, if you use this method on every chapter in a selected book of the Bible, you can remember the contents of the whole book by memorizing your chapter titles.”
― Rick Warren, Rick Warren's Bible Study Methods: Twelve Ways You Can Unlock God's Word

“You must realize that when God wants to build a positive quality in your life, he must allow you to encounter situations where you can choose to do the right thing instead of following your natural inclinations.”
― Rick Warren, Rick Warren's Bible Study Methods: Twelve Ways You Can Unlock God's Word

“Record applications for future use as well as present needs. What if you find an application that does not apply to you at that particular time? You are studying a passage that has to do with death and how you can overcome grief and sorrow, but this is not your problem now. What do you do with these verses? Write them down anyway, for two reasons. First, the application might be needed in the future when another situation comes into your life. Second, it might help you minister to someone else who is in that situation. Ask yourself, “How can I use this verse to help someone else?”
― Rick Warren, Rick Warren's Bible Study Methods: Twelve Ways You Can Unlock God's Word

“meditation (concentrated, prayerful thinking)”
― Rick Warren, Rick Warren's Bible Study Methods: Twelve Ways You Can Unlock God's Word

“Bible study without application can be dangerous because knowledge increases responsibility. If you get serious about studying the Bible, you will be held more accountable than the average person, because with added knowledge comes added responsibility. James wrote, “Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn’t do it, sins” (James 4:17).”
― Rick Warren, Rick Warren's Bible Study Methods: Twelve Ways You Can Unlock God's Word

“What a man knows should find expression in what he does.”
― Rick Warren, Rick Warren's Bible Study Methods: Twelve Ways You Can Unlock God's Word

“You can be a walking Bible encyclopedia, with your head crammed full of biblical knowledge, but it won’t do you any good if you don’t apply it practically in daily living. If you study the Word of God without applying it to your life, you are no better off than the Pharisees and Sadducees of Jesus’ day. You really don’t know the Scriptures until you put them into practice.”
― Rick Warren, Rick Warren's Bible Study Methods: Twelve Ways You Can Unlock God's Word

“the result that the Scriptures change us to conform more with the will of God.”
― Rick Warren, Rick Warren's Bible Study Methods: Twelve Ways You Can Unlock God's Word

“The Bible is a practical book, for it is concerned with practical godly living. Bible study without personal application can be just an academic exercise with no spiritual value. The Bible was written to be applied to our lives. In his succinct way Howard Hendricks has said, “Interpretation without application is abortion!” We want to note here that application is necessary for our Christian lives, that it is hard work, and that good applications are possible if we follow some basic principles.”
― Rick Warren, Rick Warren's Bible Study Methods: Twelve Ways You Can Unlock God's Word

“The Bible is a practical book, for it is concerned with practical godly living.”
― Rick Warren, Rick Warren's Bible Study Methods: Twelve Ways You Can Unlock God's Word

“1. Additional versions and paraphrases 2. A Bible encyclopedia 3. A set of word studies 4. Individual commentaries on Bible books 5. A Bible atlas 6. Old and New Testament surveys 7. Any additional books that interest you, perhaps some listed in the bibliography”
― Rick Warren, Rick Warren's Bible Study Methods: Twelve Ways You Can Unlock God's Word

“1. A study Bible 2. Two recent Bible versions 3. An exhaustive concordance 4. A Bible dictionary 5. A topical Bible 6. A Bible handbook 7. A one-or-two-volume commentary”
― Rick Warren, Rick Warren's Bible Study Methods: Twelve Ways You Can Unlock God's Word

“An exhaustive concordance. By far the most important tool you will need in Bible study next to your study Bible is a concordance geared to your primary Bible version. This tool is a Bible index of the words contained in that version.”
― Rick Warren, Rick Warren's Bible Study Methods: Twelve Ways You Can Unlock God's Word

“The Amplified Bible (produced by the Lockman Foundation and published by Zondervan), a translation that includes different possible meanings of many words used in the text.”
― Rick Warren, Rick Warren's Bible Study Methods: Twelve Ways You Can Unlock God's Word

“The New American Standard Bible (produced by the Lockman Foundation and published by Zondervan and several other publishers), recognized as one of the most accurate translations that is faithful to the original languages.”
― Rick Warren, Rick Warren's Bible Study Methods: Twelve Ways You Can Unlock God's Word

“Memorize Psalm 119:18 and use it before each study: “Open my eyes that I may see wonderful things in your law.”
― Rick Warren, Rick Warren's Bible Study Methods: Twelve Ways You Can Unlock God's Word

“Dynamic Bible study means that God’s Word must be studied systematically. A haphazard study of the Word of God is an insult to the sanctity of Scripture.”
― Rick Warren, Rick Warren's Bible Study Methods: Twelve Ways You Can Unlock God's Word

“The real problem for most of us is not with interpreting difficult passages but with obeying the passages we do understand.”
― Rick Warren, Rick Warren's Bible Study Methods: Twelve Ways You Can Unlock God's Word

“Some of the questions you ought to be asking yourself in your Bible study are: What attitude do I need to change as a result of this study? What do I need to start doing or stop doing? What things do I need to believe or stop believing? What relationships do I need to work on? What ministry should I be having with others? Our goal in all Bible studies is to know Jesus Christ and to become like him in our attitudes, our thoughts, our speech, our actions, and our values.”
― Rick Warren, Rick Warren's Bible Study Methods: Twelve Ways You Can Unlock God's Word

“All of our efforts in Bible study are valueless if in the final analysis we do not change and become more like Jesus.”
― Rick Warren, Rick Warren's Bible Study Methods: Twelve Ways You Can Unlock God's Word

“The Bible was not given to increase our knowledge, but to change our lives.”
― Rick Warren, Rick Warren's Bible Study Methods: Twelve Ways You Can Unlock God's Word

“That is the difference between Bible reading and Bible study. In reading the Bible you simply read through a selected portion of Scripture, whereas in studying the Bible you take extensive notes.”
― Rick Warren, Rick Warren's Bible Study Methods: Twelve Ways You Can Unlock God's Word

“You cannot study the Bible without writing something down.”
― Rick Warren, Rick Warren's Bible Study Methods: Twelve Ways You Can Unlock God's Word