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Scene In Context - Introduction

August 03, 2025 0 0

 

Scene in Context

 

This month we thought it would be interesting to highlight the importance of interpreting and understanding scripture in a contemporary context. So each week of our study we invite you to discuss an accompanying image of a modern day scene while reading the Bible texts.

How does Hosea sound when we picture a noisy creche? How about the letter to the Hebrews while we picture the upheaval and confusion of a hastily assembled refugee camp?

We offer a wide range of various contexts and situations in which the writer, reader and God find themselves in conversations which are being illustrated before their very eyes by the surroundings they find themselves in. What do we discover anew about these texts when we read them alongside vivid contemporary scenes?

Sometimes the images seek to draw parallels with modern life and at other times we have looked for a contrasting scene to stimulate our reflection. We hope to spark off conversations between God, and each other; allowing the Holy Spirit to direct the conversations into different areas of thought.

Context is hugely important in helping us understand Scripture. Both the context in which it was written and the context in which we find ourselves reading it today. Some scripture has significance for a community that has still to be formed while other scripture helps us understand how God has spoken to people in the past. The voice of God as heard in Scripture is never spoken in a vacuum. It is always spoken in context in order to give us meaning and direction in our lives.

This month as we read scripture together it is our prayer that we will take these scenes to God and use them as starters to bring about conversations with others in order to connect our friends and families into the great conversations in Scripture.

Weekly overview:

  • Enjoyment springs up

  • Enjoyment wells up

  • Enjoyment sparks into life

  • The sheer joy of being alive

These discussion questions adapt our monthly themes for small Connect Groups or personal Bible study. The questions are divided into 5 parts to correspond with the 5 weeks of the Daily Worship theme. They are offered as a guideline and there is no need to go through all the given questions in a single session, or in the following sequence. Feel free to pick and choose, or adapt to what interests you or your group.

 

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