John Piper’s Ask Questions Method Workflow

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The Ask Questions Bible study method is adapted from John Piper’s article “How to Read the Bible for Yourself” and is used by permission from Desiring God. See also John’s expanded article “Unlock the Riches of Scripture: How I Discover Meaning in the Bible” and his book Reading the Bible Supernaturally: Seeing and Savoring the Glory of God in Scripture.

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Principle 1: Read for the author’s meaning, not your own.

When we read, we want to know what an author intended us to see and experience in his writing. He had an intention when he wrote. Nothing will ever change that. It is there as a past, objective event in history.

We are not reading simply for subjective experiences. We are reading to discover more about objective reality. I’m not content with what comes to my mind when I read it. The meaning of a sentence, or a word, or a letter is what the author intended for us to understand by it. Therefore, meaning is the first aim of all good reading.

Principle 2: Ask questions to unlock the riches of the Bible.

When we read, we generally do not really think until we are faced with a problem to be solved, a mystery to be unraveled, or a puzzle to be deciphered. Until our minds are challenged, and shift from passive reading to active reading, we drift right over lots of insights.

Asking ourselves questions is a way of creating a problem or a mystery to be solved. That means the habit of asking ourselves questions awakens and sustains our thinking. It stimulates our mind while we read, and drives us down deep to the real meaning of a passage.