yourself, What’s the “big idea”? McDougall suggested three primary ways for accomplishing this task.8 First, identify the CIT from a single statement in the passage. Many times one sentence in the text will contain the nucleus of the text. Contrary to the traditional approach to basic English composition, the main thought of a paragraph in the biblical languages is not always found in the first sentence. For example, after Paul established growth in Christlikeness as the goal of the church, he called