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Despite the title of his article (“Why Pentecostals Read their Bibles Poorly—and Some Suggested Cures,” JEPTA 24 [2004]: 4–15), Gordon D. Fee addresses readers
Apr 11, 2025
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Despite the title of his article (“Why Pentecostals Read their Bibles Poorly—and Some Suggested Cures,” JEPTA 24 [2004]: 4–15), Gordon D. Fee addresses readers of Scripture from several traditions of Christianity (liturgical, nondenominational, Pentecostal, evangelical, etc.). Focusing on his treatment of the effective reading of Scripture with a renewed mind and heart, make two observations about his recommended interpretive concepts and statements about reading strategies summarized below:Interpretive Concepts“the conviction that Scripture is God’s very word, a word for the church for all times and climes, inspired by the Holy Spirit for the church’s growth and life in the world” (6-7);what he calls the problem of “the non-contextual individuation of verses” (7);the role of “the actual sense units with the biblical text itself” in the interpretation of Scripture (7);his warning about “basically looking for our ‘verse for the day’” (8); andhis warning against the fragmenting of Scripture “with hardly any sense at all of its holistic grandeur as God’s story in which by grace he is including us” (8, see also 10).Statements about Reading Strategies“We miss a great deal of the New Testament itself because we are so poorly informed about the Old [Testament]” (11);the original audiences of the NT documents “knew their Bibles infinitely better than most of us do” (11); and“… an informed reading of the Bible will cause people to begin to look for the many ways the whole is held together, that it is One Story, God’s Story, and that one can make perfectly good sense of the whole in its present canonical arrangement” (14).
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