Detailed Example of How to Use the S.O.A.P. Method When You're Studying the Bible

In today's episode, I'm giving you a detailed example of how to use the S.O.A.P.  Bible Study Method. 

Below, you'll find the transcript that has the steps in bold to help you go along and practice this on your own. 

 

Denea (00:01) Hello, hello, it's Denea, host of the Faith-Filled Mom podcast. Thank you so much for listening. Thank you for being here. Real quick, I just wanted to say, it is such a gift, a privilege, an honor that God meets you and I where exactly where we are. He did this with us when we first met him.

If you think back to your journey of the first time you really prayed or the first time that you had this idea of God saving you, right? That just that idea felt personal to you. Think back to that moment. God met you exactly where you were. He didn't expect you to become perfect in that moment, right? He knew that over

Over time, the sanctification process was going to happen with you and I, and that is such a privilege that you and I received that. And I also want to say it's a gift for us to give it to ourselves and other people. Mama, wherever you are, whatever you find yourself doing today, I hope you know that it is a gift to meet yourself exactly where you are right now. Maybe there are 50 million things that you want to accomplish today, but the capacity is just not there. Meet yourself where you are. Be kind to yourself, knowing that today, yes, you try, but today you don't have to be perfect. And give that gift. See if there's anyone around you. Ask God to lead you in giving that gift to someone else around you.

Like I said, thank you so much for being here. I am so excited about today's episode, but I feel like I say that about every episode. think this season of the podcast, I mean, I've been excited every single episode that I have recorded. I've been excited, but I think this season I'm really tapping into Bible teaching. Bible teaching is something that was in within the past year. I think I've had an awareness, that I was really passionate about. Like I wasn't able to articulate it before, but within the past year I was like, I really like this. And so this season of the podcast, have really been praying and I've been trying to be obedient and I've been trying to be bold and I've been trying to be brave because I definitely do not do this in my own strength. I don't prepare these episodes in my own strength. It's just something that I am passionate about.

And today, we are going to use the soap method in real time. Now I say in real time, this is not live. You are listening to this after I've recorded it, but I'm going to walk you through how to do that and here's why. I have talked about the soap method before. I've even kind of like given examples, but not to the extent of looking at the text in its original language and then connecting that to how we can apply scripture because that's how you and I get context out of the Bible. When you and I search the scriptures and when you and I also search the internet and looking at and all of these tools that we have and trying to get to that original language and trying to understand what the author of the text meant and when we understand that and kind of connect it to how we can apply it to everyday life that's how you and I get context out of scripture.

We don't really get context reading one scripture face value and trying to connect it to how we can apply it. Can it be helpful? Absolutely. Read your word.

Right? Like it can absolutely be helpful. I'm not saying that just reading the Bible at face value is not helpful. That is absolutely what I'm not saying. What I am saying is if we want to go deeper as far as getting context and meaning behind the original way what was written was intended and then apply that, to how we can apply it to our everyday lives and connect that to how we can apply it to everyday lives, that is how you and I go deeper. So I'm gonna do that today. We're g