How to: Reading God's Word

How to Study God’s Word

Context; 

Historical, 

What did this mean to the times?

What was known by the people originally reading this?

From Creation to the Cross, Albert H. Baylis

Zondervan Encyclopedia of the Bible, 

Grammatical, 

What is the tense of the wording?

Is it literal or figurative?

within greater narrative

Looking at the larger text’s topic or theological position