The Bible Doesn't Apply to Your Life

So stop trying to make it about you. There are two common but terrible methods for studying the Bible: topical and verse-by-verse. Topical Bible studies are usually a collection of verses and passages ripped out of their original contexts and arranged according to some irrelevant, Western gimmick like characters, virtues, or targeted demographic themes. Verse-by-verse Bible studies tend to work through entire books in a painfully over-engineered fashion to the point where life applications are extracted through a hunt-and-peck assortment of morphemes and other abused word parts. Both methods couldn't be more dissimilar nor produce more polarized, self-righteous apostles, yet both fail to recognize one simple fact: the Bible was not written so that we could apply it to our lives. The Bible is an archive of stories, letters, and other writings that show how humanity came to know God. In fact, these writings are inspired by him so that they might transcend the gener