Simplification of the Word

Hazelelponi said:

Heavenly Father, I pray for understanding of Your Word, and Your way, our role in teaching others, and how we should speak when speaking of Your precious Word. I thank you for guiding and teaching us. May Your Word be living in us and easily seen to others. All things to Your Glory. In Jesus' Name I Pray, Amen.

@dms1972 - I know you weren't speaking to me, but in another thread you said:



and it led me to wonder a few things, because while I love the in-depth scriptural analysis, I love the simplicity of bringing that new knowledge to a daily action.

As you said, someone can write an entire BOOK discussing just a couple verses. And the entire Bible is like that in my view. But there are times we just want to simplify and get to the living action of a verse, especially when speaking to others.

I often talk about dictates in scripture or lessons thereof without quoting all the scripture I'm thinking of because often I believe bringing in too much scripture and subsequent discussion of its meaning within a potential application might bring the topic away from the original point, or make someone's head spin and end up confusing them thus bringing the topic away from the topic.

take this post for instance:



Here just in this one paragraph alone I could have quoted many scriptures and went into a heavily detailed teaching of how we can come to this conclusion through multiple passages - even 2 Peter 1:20 - however, by the time I would have finished the teaching my point easily said in a concise manner would be utterly lost in my POV.

Now, if I felt myself a Pastor to teach, I might feel differently, and perhaps publicly on a forum that is how we must feel, as a teacher.. but the abject terror of being the one to lead someone astray by mispeaking or being misunderstood can make a person have fear of speaking when/if they feel themselves a teacher to teach.

I find the way Jesus explained scripture to be beautiful and quite simple for people to understand, it's scripture fully action that we need most.

So where is the fine line? Where is the balance between too simple, and just simple enough to be understood?

How should we see ourselves when speaking of the things of God to others? How does God require of us to speak?

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Hazelelponi said:

Heavenly Father, I pray for understanding of Your Word, and Your way, our role in teaching others, and how we should speak when speaking of Your precious Word. I thank you for guiding and teaching us. May Your Word be living in us and easily seen to others. All things to Your Glory. In Jesus' Name I Pray, Amen.

@dms1972 - I know you weren't speaking to me, but in another thread you said:



and it led me to wonder a few things, because while I love the in-depth scriptural analysis, I love the simplicity of bringing that new knowledge to a daily action.

As you said, someone can write an entire BOOK discussing just a couple verses. And the entire Bible is like that in my view. But there are times we just want to simplify and get to the living action of a verse, especially when speaking to others.

I often talk about dictates in scripture or lessons thereof without quoting all the scripture I'm thinking of because often I believe bringing in too much scripture and subsequent discussion of its meaning within a potential application might bring the topic away from the original point, or make someone's head spin and end up confusing them thus bringing the topic away from the topic.

take this post for instance:



Here just in this one paragraph alone I could have quoted many scriptures and went into a heavily detailed teaching of how we can come to this conclusion through multiple passages - even 2 Peter 1:20 - however, by the time I would have finished the teaching my point easily said in a concise manner would be utterly lost in my POV.

Now, if I felt myself a Pastor to teach, I might feel differently, and perhaps publicly on a forum that is how we must feel, as a teacher.. but the abject terror of being the one to lead someone astray by mispeaking or being misunderstood can make a person have fear of speaking when/if they feel themselves a teacher to teach.

I find the way Jesus explained scripture to be beautiful and quite simple for people to understand, it's scripture fully action that we need most.

So where is the fine line? Where is the balance between too simple, and just simple enough to be understood?

How should we see ourselves when speaking of the things of God to others? How does God require of us to speak?

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Hazelelponi said:

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the way Jesus explained scripture to be beautiful and quite simple for people to understand, it's scripture fully action that we need most.

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Hazelelponi said:

Heavenly Father, I pray for understanding of Your Word, and Your way, our role in teaching others, and how we should speak when speaking of Your precious Word. I thank you for guiding and teaching us. May Your Word be living in us and easily seen to others. All things to Your Glory. In Jesus' Name I Pray, Amen.

@dms1972 - I know you weren't speaking to me, but in another thread you said:



and it led me to wonder a few things, because while I love the in-depth scriptural analysis, I love the simplicity of bringing that new knowledge to a daily action.

As you said, someone can write an entire BOOK discussing just a couple verses. And the entire Bible is like that in my view. But there are times we just want to simplify and get to the living action of a verse, especially when speaking to others.

I often talk about dictates in scripture or lessons thereof without quoting all the scripture I'm thinking of because often I believe bringing in too much scripture and subsequent discussion of its meaning within a potential application might bring the topic away from the original point, or make someone's head spin and end up confusing them thus bringing the topic away from the topic.

take this post for instance:



Here just in this one paragraph alone I could have quoted many scriptures and went into a heavily detailed teaching of how we can come to this conclusion through multiple passages - even 2 Peter 1:20 - however, by the time I would have finished the teaching my point easily said in a concise manner would be utterly lost in my POV.

Now, if I felt myself a Pastor to teach, I might feel differently, and perhaps publicly on a forum that is how we must feel, as a teacher.. but the abject terror of being the one to lead someone astray by mispeaking or being misunderstood can make a person have fear of speaking when/if they feel themselves a teacher to teach.

I find the way Jesus explained scripture to be beautiful and quite simple for people to understand, it's scripture fully action that we need most.

So where is the fine line? Where is the balance between too simple, and just simple enough to be understood?

How should we see ourselves when speaking of the things of God to others? How does God require of us to speak?

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