?? Sad.
What is sad? I do not mean these things are not vital to the life of a believer. Maybe I need to make that more clear. I am not discounting the necessity of daily devotional reading or listening to the preaching and teaching from those blessed with such giftings.
What I am saying is that those, in and of themselves, are not Bible Study. And we as believers need to study the Word with vigor and persistance just as much as we read it as a daily devotional or as we here a God-given message.
"What happened was, I completely missed Acts Chapter 2..."
Sorry you missed it the first time through, repetition is good.
If someone is using an N.I.V. concordance to look up the word "church", they will miss completly Acts 2. Am I wrong? I have an K.J.V. concordance and even then it only picks up 2:47.
I stand by my assertion that that method of subject research of merely looking up a word in a concordance only is a poor, scattershot method of study.
"What I am saying is that those, in and of themselves, are not Bible Study. And we as believers need to study the Word with vigor and persistance just as much as we read it as a daily devotional or as we here a God-given message."
Before I started memorizing scripture, I might have agreed. Memorizing takes a lot of vigor and presistance, but it also allowes you to study with the lights out. Sometimes I wake up at night with the days verses going through my head. I can review the book of Revelation while running a 10K. I guess I'm sad because you've taken two of my favorite tools for studying the bible and told me that they are not even Bible study.
Studying a passage of the Bible is much easier if you first memorize it.