Intro to Studying the Bible

Deductive Bible study is simply taking a general statement & then going to Scripture to find verses to support or disprove it. Inductive Bible Study starts with the details of Scripture & then builds a general or universal statement (a big idea) based on those details. The 4 phases of inductive Bible Study are: 1. Observation 2. Interpretation 3. Correlation 4. Application. Four Essential Tools - 1. A Study Bible 2. Strong's Exhaustive Concordance 3. Bible Dictionary 4. Commentary