The following information was taken from Rick Warren Bible study methods book.

Introduction

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Paul gives us three reasons why we should know the Scriptures.

  1. The first purpose is that we might come to know Jesus Christ and receive his salvation (v. 15). We learn about him and redemption through the Word.
  2. The second purpose of Scripture is to help us grow spiritually that we might be equipped for whatever God wants us to do (v. 17). The means to that growth are teaching (doctrine), rebuking, correcting, and training (v. 16). Teaching shows us the path on which we are to walk; rebuking shows us where we got off the path; correcting tells us how to get back on the path; and training in righteousness teaches how to stay on that path. This means that the Bible is the comprehensive guidebook for living the Christian life.
  3. The third reason why people don’t study the Scriptures is that they are lazy.

Bible study is hard work, and there are no shortcuts to it. It is just like anything else in life that is truly worthwhile: it takes time, effort, concentration, and persistence. Most great truths of the Word of God do not lie on the surface; we have to dig for them. Just as gold might be found at the bottom of a mine or a pearl at the bottom of the sea, so the deeper truths of God must be searched out with great diligence

  1. The secret of dynamic Bible study is knowing how to ask the right kinds of questions.
  2. Dynamic Bible study involves writing down what you have observed and discovered.
  3. The ultimate goal of dynamic Bible study is application, not just interpretation.
  4. Dynamic Bible study means that God’s Word must be studied systematically.
  5. In dynamic Bible study you will never exhaust the riches in any one passage of Scripture.

Some of the questions you ought to be asking yourself in your Bible study are: