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This module helps you to focus on how the bible intends us to approach and interact with the bible as God's word. It will take you through three particular types of Bible text - the Epistles (or letters), the Gospels and finally the Psalms. The final section is all about how we can apply God's word to our hearts and our lives, putting the Bible's teaching into practice as we live godly, responsive lives that bring glory to God.

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Reading with understanding
Reading wisely
Reading biblically
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Understanding the epistles part 2
Understanding the gospels part 1
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Understanding the Psalms
Application: hearing and doing

Crosslands has created this material to help you grow in love for Christ as believers in your local church and community context.

In making the time to study this ‘Reading and Understanding the Bible’ module, you may well have put aside many other tasks that could have filled your time. But at heart what you’re doing is devoting yourself to Jesus and to his words. And in doing that, Jesus says, you’ve chosen a very good thing.

The Crosslands Team

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