30 DAYS OF DIGGING! DAY 30:)

DAY 30

Pray through the application process. Write out your prayer as permanent record of your application.

Review what you wrote about the book before you began your study, and be encouraged with your progress. Store all your questions and answers in a file.

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30 DAYS OF DIGGING! DAY 29:)

DAY 29

What truths or applications could you make from this book if you were teaching it? Write them out.

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30 DAYS OF DIGGING! DAY 28:)

DAY 28

In light of these truths (what you wrote for DAY 27), ask, “What changes need to take place in my life? Am I to change what I believe? Am I to change in my relationships with others? Am I to change in my relationship with God?” Try to personalize the book into your life. Write down your answers.

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30 DAYS OF DIGGING! DAY 27:)

DAY 27

Summarize the basic truths of the book. Ask yourself how these truths apply to your life in the twenty-first century. Does this book: Teach me something I don’t know? Bring correction? Bring encouragement? Help me understand more about God or mankind?

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30 DAYS OF DIGGING! DAY 26:)

DAY 26

Same study as DAY 25.

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30 DAYS OF DIGGING! DAY 25:)

DAY 25

Bombard the text with WHY questions. 

Write out your questions, then try to answer them. 

Is the answer found somewhere in the book? Just sit back and think for a while, sometimes the answer just involves allowing yourself to think. 

Be sure to write down your answers; don’t consider them unimportant. Share your ideas with someone else.\

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30 DAYS OF DIGGING! DAY 24:)

DAY 24

Read the whole book through again in one sitting. 

Think once again about the overall message of the book.

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30 DAYS OF DIGGING! DAY 23:)

DAY 23

Discover the author’s main concern in the book.

What does he want the original readers to know and understand? 

What are the original readers’ main concerns? 

Have they asked certain questions that the author is answering? 

Write down what you discover.

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30 DAYS OF DIGGING! DAY 22:)

DAY 22

Wrestling with a difficult passage. Read through the passage several times. 

Meditate on the passage. Bombard the passage with WHY questions. Answer the WHY questions that you asked. Consider the CONTEXT and main ideas of the surrounding paragraphs. How does this difficult passage fit into the overall message of the book? Write down your conclusions and ask yourself if this is a reasonable interpretation. Does it go against any major truth or teaching in the Bible? Ask someone else their opinion of this passage.

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