Please note: Enrollment in this course is contingent upon approval by SIBI, as outlined in the Learning Plan provided upon enrollment. Applicants must complete the acceptance process before payment. This course is residential.
Class is Tuesday and Thursday from 9:20-12:00 (CST)
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Biblical Interpretation is a foundational course designed to help us develop balanced, sensible,
and logical methods to understand and properly interpret scripture. We believe that God
delivered us a message in His revealed Word that we can understand. We believe that it contains
everything we need for life and godliness and that it makes us “complete, equipped for every
good work” (2 Tim. 3:17). Therefore, we need to establish healthy methods to rightly determine
what God is saying to His people. This course is designed to help us do that.
It contains two parts. In the first half we will examine effective exegetical approaches to
scripture. In other words, we will learn how to determine what the text was saying to the
audience who initially received it. We must establish that message before we can move to part
two, which is the hermeneutical section. In the second half of the course, we will learn how to
correctly apply scripture to us today. Both of these elements of textual interpretation are
imperative to our ability to properly preach and teach the Bible. Good exegesis leads to good
hermeneutics, which leads to good homiletics. That is the ultimate goal of this course.
- Teacher: Matt Glawe