of the OIA process. If we neglect good observation of the text, our service to Christ can easily launch off in the wrong direction. We love him and want to know him, but we’re like homebuilders who ignore the blueprint and trash the work order: We end up with “interesting” houses not up to code and possibly unsafe to live in. If we neglect good interpretation of the text, our beliefs and actions will likely be unbiblical. We will end up like homebuilders who have constructed a geothermally heated