📖 SIX THINGS TO ASK WHEN READING THE BIBLE
WHO?
Who is speaking?
Who is this about?
Who are the main characters?
WHAT?
What is the subject or event being discussed?
WHERE?
Where is all of this happening?
Where was it said?
WHEN?
When did something happen?
When will something happen?
WHY?
Why is something said?
Why at this time?
HOW?
How will it happen?
How will it be done?
What does God say about His Shepherd?
JAMES 3
“LET NOT MANY OF YOU BECOME TEACHERS (SHEPHERDS, BISHOPS, PASTORS), MY BRETHREN, KNOWING THAT AS SUCH WE WILL INCUR A STRICTER JUDGMENT.”
ACTS 20:28-31
“BE ON GUARD FOR YOURSELVES (HE IS TALKING TO THE SHEPHERDS) AND FOR ALL THE FLOCK, AMONG WHICH THE HOLY SPIRIT HAS MADE YOU OVERSEERS, TO SHEPHERD THE CHURCH OF GOD WHICH HE PURCHASED WITH HIS OWN BLOOD. VERSE 29 ‘I KNOW THAT AFTER MY DEPARTURE SAVAGE WOLVES WILL COME IN AMONG YOU, NOT SPARING THE FLOCK; VERSE 30 AND FROM AMONG YOUR OWN SELVES MEN WILL ARISE, SPEAKING PERVERSE THINGS, TO DRAW AWAY THE DISCIPLES AFTER THEM. VERSE 31 THEREFORE BE ON THE ALERT, REMEMBERING THAT NIGHT AND DAY FOR A PERIOD OF THREE YEARS I DID NOT CEASE TO ADMONISH (REPRIMAND, WARN, REBUKE REPROVE) EACH ONE WITH TEARS.”
JEREMIAH 3:15
“THEN I WILL GIVE YOU SHEPHERDS AFTER MY OWN HEART, WHO WILL FEED YOU ON KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING. IF THE MESSAGE NEEDS TO COME FROM THE HEART OF GOD, I THINK THOSE AT THE PULPIT WOULD ‘HAVE THE HEART OF GOD’.”
what does the bible really say?

