Listen along as Pastor Dusty shares and gives the group a chance to experience a couple of tools that can promote personal engagement with scripture. The goal is that these tools can help raise our spiritual awareness and maturity as we listen and respond to the promptings of the Holy Spirit.
This message introduces SOAP Journaling (Acronym: Scripture/Observation/Application/Prayer) and another tool adapted from Dr. Tod Bolsinger’s Tool for Discussion, Response and Reading the Bible referred to as I-I-I-R.
I-I-I-R can be used alone or paired with the OBSERVATION section of the SOAP journaling method. This can help further engagement by paying attention to what impacts you while reading scripture.
IIIR stands for the following:
INSPIRE (!) What stands out positively so far and why?
INQUIRE (?) What questions have been raised that may need further exploration?
IRK (*) What might be triggering you or creating dissonance?
REQUIRE (>) What changes seem to be demanded of you?