BIBLE ROADMAPS (archived)

  Just start reading. How exactly do you start building your Bible Roadmap? The same way you learn how to get somewhere new - you just need to start moving and ask some crucial questions as you go along: Am I going in the right direction? If I need to go west, but I'm driving east, I may not being going the right way Does this current direction make sense? Not all roads are straight, but its good to keep those weird paths in mind because I may need to navigate them later Does this direction seem familiar? Sometimes you may have driven somewhere before without realizing it, and going over those roads may help you recognise them Now lets convert these ideas to reading the Bible. Just like driving or moving actually gets you to a destination, you'll need read the Bible to start building your roadmap (use a Bible plan if that helps). Ask these questions as you read: How does this apply to me in my current season? Dont worry about questions like "Why did this...

What are Theological Street Directories? When I first started driving, I sort of knew how to navigate a few local areas from watching how my parents drove to places throughout my childhood. But if I needed to get somewhere new, or if I needed to tell others how to get around, I had no idea what to do. Street Directory Before we had free apps with GPS maps and turn by turn directions built in to our smart phones, we used books called a "Street Directory". These were large books as each page was a smaller part of a map of the whole roadmap of a city. And the back of the Street Directory had an index of all the addresses in your city with which page you'd find it on the map and with coordinates to the address on the page. The fun part with a Street Directory is that you could easily see the layout of all parts of a city just by flicking through a few pages. But you wouldn't read it from page to page like a book, instead you'd use specific tools to help navigate t...