Rightly dividing the word of truth

If we are going to be effectual in our worship, walk and witness we need to be good students of the word.

"Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that
needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth."
​2 Timothy 2:15

We all need to take a fresh look at things in our lives every now and again. How many of us have a 5 year plan in place to monitor career progress? If we start a home improvement program, we plan carefully and measure our progress against that plan. We live by the old adage "If you fail to plan, you plan to fail".

Yet when it comes to our spiritual progress we are often lacking in any kind of structure beyond a shop bought devotional or, at best, a "Read through the Bible in a year" plan. These are Bible reading, they are not effective ways to study the Bible.

I have read through the Bible a few times and it quickly becomes a chore, certainly by the time I got to Leviticus I would question the value of the exercise.

How would you like to get so much benefit from you Bible reading that you can hardly put it down?

​When I discovered this method, the Biblical method described in 2 Timothy 2:15, I coined a phrase... 

"Every day I'm blown away!"

The Bible became exciting to read

The Bible can be divided in a number of different ways. Nobody has a problem with dividing the Old Testament (OT) from the New Testament (NT). Nobody is asking you to be circumcised today because they have rightly divided that requirement and left it with the Jews, even when it is mentioned in the NT.

​ The difficulty arises when we get to the New Testament