Finally Found a Convenient Bible Study Plan Guide
I’ve always looked for ways to study the Bible. I’ve tried a couple of alternatives and I just had to stop mid-way through most of them. Finishing was difficult sometimes. I’ve tried reading and studying the Bible:
- In a chronological order
- By reading a part of the Old Testament and a part of the New Testament, but also in a chronological order
- By starting with the Gospel according to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, and then later moving to Acts and so on
- By taking specific topics I wanted to learn about
Honestly, I had a good learning time with all of them (even though I struggled with consistency), and the last is what I’d like to stick with for now.
What I usually did with the topical approach was to write down the topics I wanted to study and then I’ll look for scriptures in that regard. However, I was quite limited because I didn’t really know how to get the scriptures, aside from Google search and using a Bible Concordance (which I rarely utilized for looking for scriptures relating to the topics).
This worked but I wasn’t sure if I was getting enough or even doing a proper study on the topic. I just couldn’t really find my way around the topics. Eventually, I had to stop, just like the others.
So recently, I decided to search Google again (because this wasn’t the first time I conducted a search like this): how to create a personal Bible study plan. I read a couple of articles that popped up on the first page. I got some new ideas and some old ones were reiterated. It was through this search that I chanced on this article by Intentional by Grace.
The article gave a detailed explanation on how to go about a topical Bible study and then it went on to give the steps of creating one for yourself, as well as the resources you’ll need. Aside from that, there’s a free subscription for Monthly Topical Bible Reading Plans. When you subscribe, you get access to their entire Topical Bible Reading Plan library.
As I mentioned earlier, this approach is the same thing I settled on before this latest research, but I didn’t know how to go about it well. After reading the article, I got some really helpful tips and about 23 Bible Study Plans on topics I’d love to study. Below is a picture of one of the topical reading plans in their library.
So yeah, that’s what I’m trying to working with right now. But if there’s the need to change sometime in the future, I’ll definitely explore other options.
You can check out what Intentional by Grace has to offer if you’d want to follow the topical approach and create your own study and/or reading plan (same link as the previous one in the article).
