Personal Application
"If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them.”
1. Define the truth to be applied.
- Observe Carefully
- Interpret Accurately
- Identify the application as understood by the original readers of the text.
Was there an example to imitate?
Was there a principle to apply?
Was there a command to obey?
Was there an error to avoid?
Was there a sin to forsake?
Was there a promise to claim?
Was there any new thought about God Himself?
2. Identify the specific application of this truth to your life.
- Translate the original application into your current circumstances, time, and place. (Example: 1st century Palestine vs. 21st Century Eugene)
- Make it specific. What do you need to add, change, or delete?
- Make it personal. What do you need to add, change, or delete?
3. Plan to apply this truth to your life.
- What actions steps will you take? If there are several, list them in order.
- When will you start?
- How will you measure progress?
- Who will keep you accountable?
- How will they do it?
- When will they do it?
“For in the last analysis one of the primary secrets of Scriptural application is the kind of abandon which causes one who has discovered a truth to follow it to its logical outcome, even if the road be hard and the tangible rewards few.”
Jesus, John 13:17 (NASB-U)