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Falling in Love with God's Word – Reflection

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Falling in Love with God's Word – Reflection

My position in this book is that I admire the idea of reading the reading the whole book in

one setting instead of pieces and bits that could lose in the shuffle of everyday life. The principles

used in the book entails a commitment and in the hectic lives of persons, time set aside would help

in propelling us towards our success. This book could be a very useful hindrance to those who

wish to know the dibble in deep details, however, acknowledge that it takes a long period and may

give up before they even start reading the book or even finish Ferrin’s book. To be since with this

book, the outline of the author made me tired just reading it, so I cannot imagine otherwise for

those who are not used to long reading or probably research sessions.

The word inductive means to relate (Merriam – Webster, 2015). The main idea behind this

book is to understand the word of God absorb it and compare it with our lives, however in reference

to understanding the word of God and therefore associating it with an actual way and recalling the

message for those instances when we cannot access the bible. The Author has outlined very critical

steps which we can easily take. The author uses the analogy of building a house as an analogy for

falling in love with the word of God (Ferrin, 2003). Ferrin starts with the foundation or the base.

Lacking a good foundation, we will never succeed, and our scheme will perish when our

understanding, as well as our witness, is required the most. Again, the author deeps his thought

into how we can use the process of building to take journals, notes or be thoughtful in recalling

what we have learned. Following is the framing. The framing approach is the skeletal frame in

which our processes of application will adhere to. Then the ending work is where we start to take

what we have applied, study them furthermore and start falling in love much deeper with God.

The author has broken down the approach of creating a purpose statement into four distinct

stages. Each stage detailed than the one before. These steps include Stage one- read the bible at
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least ten times, step two - do a summary on what the writer is saying, Step three - read five more

days within the week and finally Step four – to repeat step three and end your purpose statement

(Ferrin, 2003). That is the primary focus of the book.

The author ends up by highlighting three key things that readers must not do at the times

of internalizing the scripture. There three important don’ts are:

a) When internalizing the word of God, never forget the message

b) Never worry about breaking down the verses or chapters until you understand the words

c) Never internalize something you do not understand or know.

The author then proceeds to approaches in which we can internalize things and be able to recall by

the use of sticky notes, having the Bible on Compact Disk (CD) or tape, reading the Bible with

your eyes closed and finally have your Bible closed and to employ the same criteria as well as the

physical bible you began with, among other tactics (Ferrin, 2003).

Doing my studies, I have been using casual inferences and simple induction as my

approaches to inductive reasoning, and they have been helping me much since I have been doing

well. However, the inductive methods presented by the author appears to be somehow better than

the techniques I have been applying. I look forward to starting using them and especially when I

am reading scriptures. Again, I am aware of inductive processes presented by other writers such

as Oletta Wald, Jos McDowell, and Dave Veerman and they have been helping me more when I

am doing my reading. However, I consider comparing their inductive process to the ones by Ferrin

in his book; I feel that Ferrin did the best presentation. His method is well organized, very

simplified and easy to follow. Any man of God wishing to read the word of God and have self-

mediation can easily use Ferrin’s inductive process.

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The four-step approach of writing a personal statement presented by Ferrin may have some

advantages and disadvantages to the reader of the scripture. However, the benefits seem to outdo

the cons. For instance, the steps give a reader adequate time for self-evaluation as well as self-

examination. Again, as you progress with the levels, the next step is more educative or guiding

than the previous one. Implying that each step equips the reader with new knowledge of self-

examination (Ferrin, 2003). Finally, as the person goes through the four phases, he turns out to be

a different person with a deep and clear understanding of the scripture.

On the other hand, the con of the process is only that the process may appear longer and

tendinous for some people who are never patient and therefore not willing to complete the four

stages successfully. Supposing a group of people uses Ferrin’s approach in studying bible, they

could be significantly benefiting. The steps give the individuals time to read and reread the Bible,

so they get better understanding of the verses, they can go ahead and summarize what they have

learned, can reread the scripture five more day during their meeting and finally they can examine

themselves, probably with few questions to see who best they understood the scripture. The steps

would greatly help every member of the group to catch every useful piece of information within

the verses read in the group.

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References

Ferrin, K. (2003). Falling in Love with God’s Word. Kirkland, Wa: That You May Know.

Merriam – Webster. (2015). Inductive Definition. Consulté le March 24, 2015, sur Merriam.

Retrieved from: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/inductive