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Understanding and Applying the Bible (Revised and Expanded) is unavailable, but you can change that!

Why do even the sincerest students of God’s Word sometimes find it dry or confusing? Too often, Robertson McQuilkin suggest, it’s because they don’t know how to read it. In his classic introduction to Bible study, McQuilkin shows everyday believers how to navigate the Bible’s genres and plumb its thought structures with accuracy, experiencing afresh living encounters with the inspired Word. ...

But there is a further problem in applying Scripture. Much of the division in the church does not start at the point of some disputed passage of Scripture. Rather, someone states an idea, some accept it, others reject it without examining it carefully, and the church is divided. If we do not begin with a passage of Scripture (as in chart 1) but with a doctrine or activity, how do we evaluate its biblical authority for faith and contemporary living? Using guidelines we have studied, the following