Methodical Bible study: A new approach to hermeneutics

I'm reading Traina's book for an internship I'm doing with a college ministry. It has been a great help in understanding how to prepare for doing Bible studies on a college level and even during devotions and daily reading. However, the book can be dry and sometimes difficult to get through. It is worth the struggle, though, for anyone wanting to learn how to dig deeper into God's Word.

This book was written by a 29-year old man in love with the Bible. In his life he has become a widely known, read, and beloved man of the Word, as well as teacher, mentor and friend of countless men and women. If we are to live as Christ would have us live, we need to know what Christ wanted and said. The Bible is our primary and foundational source for this. The question becomes, can we understand what the Bible means in this age of relativism and post-modernism? Is there meaning in the text? How do we get that? Can we? This book, truely written as a pioneering text in the field of inductive, methodical Bible study, gives its readers the tools they need to become people of the Bible. We all say, if we are Christians, that the Bible is the authority for faith and practice. Well, is it? What does Jesus want you to do with your money? Your lovelife? Your gifts? Your children? Your church attendance? Your relationships? Why does he want that? How? The Bible is the source for the answers to these and many other questions. This book will help you find them without your own biases or flimsy notions of what the Bible really says. Great buy!

This book is very well laid out and full of good information for the serious Bible student.

For those who want to look at the Bible in a objective manner, this book presents the tools needed to accomplish such a task. How can one construe Biblical passages in such a way that his interpretation is not tainted with his own pre-conceived ideas? This book shows the method that makes this goal available to all. For the layman of the Bible these techniques are not vital, but they are worthy of consideration for any student of the Bible. The methods laid out in this book will help aid the student of the Bible to be able to make the best interpretation possible in the given context of a passage. This could be a tedious process for anyone but beneficial to the dedicated reader of scripture. Most of this books content is useful for all but not the entire book. That is why I gave it four stars.