House Rules: Week 1
Read Your Bible
Pastor Chris Pratt
Part of House Rules
January 6, 2025



House Rules: Week 1 • Read Your Bible • January 5, 2025

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Reading, studying and meditating on scripture once a week is not enough to as a follower of Jesus.

2 Timothy 3

16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

The Bible is the way God to His people.

Hebrews 1
1 Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, 2 but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son,

2 Peter 1
20 knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone’s own interpretation. 21 For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

Too many people obsess with the will of God, while they forsake the will of God.

God uses the Bible to His people.

James 1:22-25 22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. 24 For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. 25 But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.

17 that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

God uses the Bible to His people to do His .

How do we start studying the Bible?

1. Choose a you understand.

2. Choose a consistent , , and to study.

3. Pray for God to and what He shows you.

4. Seek to understand the .

5. Read Slowly and Ask Questions.







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