Use this growing list of questions as you meditate on and apply a Bible passage once it is broken out. Visit the How To Page if you haven't already learned the BSB process.
Next Steps
- What is the immediate, next step for me to live out this passage?
- What is this going to take long-term to live this out?
- What is there to obey?
See, Think or Feel Differently
- How does this passage lead you toward a new way of thinking about God?
- About yourself?
- About others?
- How does it show me that God is all-powerful, all-knowing and entirely different than us (sovereign and transcendent)?
- How does it show that God is near to me? (sovereign and immanent)?
- How does this make me think differently?
- How does this make me feel?
Faith & Trust
- What in this passage builds my faith and trust in God?
- What counters my fears and failures?
- What shows His faithfulness and trustworthiness?
- What promise or hope is there to grab ahold of?
Others
- How does this passage show I am to live with our brothers and sisters in spiritual family (one another, verses about relationships)?
- How am I to live in my roles (spouse, parent, employee, boss, etc.)?
- How does it compel me to invite others into this spiritual family through a relationship with Jesus Christ (evangelism)?
- To engage with lost people?
- To build others up through discipleship?
Character & Fruit
- What does this passage say about my calling to steward God's rule on earth by reflecting His character?
- Where do I not reflect His character?
- Where am, by God's grace, outwardly showing the fruits and character which the passage encourages?
For Narrative/Story Passages
- Why does the story matter?
- What's the point?
- Why is the story being told?
- What does the story say about life?
- Where does this story intersect my life?
- Where does this story intersect the world and times I live in?