What are your spiritual goals?
Here are three of mine which are in ascending order according to how long it will take to get to them:
- Read through the Old Testament and read a commentary on Genesis and a couple of others, then do more reading of some sort on the OT
- Learn Greek well enough to use a Greek Reader’s NT where they give definitions of the 30 least used words in the NT
- Study Colossians thoroughly and write a Bible study to be used for small groups
Feel free to write yours here or in a post on your own blog.
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Jeff, what do you mean by “Free feel”? LOL
These are excellent goals. Learning Greek beyond an elementary knowledge is also a personal goal, and hopefully I will be able to accomplish that in school.
If you write a Bible study on Colossians I will be more than happy to use it as well, if you are willing to share.
Jeff, what do you mean by “Free feel”? LOL
I mean I might be dyslexic.
If I were to do a Bible study on Colossians I’d run it by others first for sure.
Jeff
Jeff, I don’t mean run it by me, I mean let me have them – LOL. I might use them at our church
But it may be terrible.
It will be quite a while before I get to that.
Jeff
I have quite similar goals to the ones you gave.
I want to do some in-depth studying on Genesis, particularly chapters 1-11.
I want to learn Greek well enough that I can read through the New Testament, the LXX, and early christian writings with ease and with very minimal need to consult a lexicon. (This goal is still some years away)
I want to study Jude extremely thoroughly (which I have been doing for some months now. Then after that, in-depth studies on James and Hebrews and Peter’s epistles.
And then a long-term goal, learn to read german, french and swedish to such an extent that I can read theological papers written in those languages.
That last goal of mine will probably never happen though
Wow Kevin. I can’t see myself going past beginning Greek although I want to learn that much very thoroughly using three books. I want to get back to memorizing Scripture someday.
I like the book of Jude. I like it when people see the importance of those little books. I like the other ones you mention too in addition to Colossians and the rest of the Bible of course.
Jeff
Three goals? Well let’s see.
1. I too desire to be able to read my Greek NT easily — am working on that and have come a long way in the last few years.
2. Would enjoy learning the basics+ of Hebrew as well. That may need to wait a bit.
3. Edit the Exposition of Romans and of Hebrews that I have written.
WOW! I need to be much younger — oh well, I’ll just keep plugging.
Nice goals. A few of mine are:
1) Regain proficiency in Hebrew
2) Learn German (for research, not conversation, though I wouldn’t mind being able to converse)
3) Read through a large section of the Hebrew Bible (Genesis, Psalms, Isaiah)
4) Become more acquainted with the church fathers
Good ones…here are mine at the moment….
1. Increased faith in God and what he can do.
2. Grow in the gift of prophecy – word of knowledge.
3. To study more on how to preach Christ from the OT.
4. Let God show me if I am wrong in any of these, and always have his will for me as priority nr 1.
That sounds about as good as it gets Erik.