Win Today: Your Roadmap to Wholeness 467: Bored with Bible Study? Faith Womack on How to Wrestle with the Tension of Scripture, The Mistakes Pastors and Teachers Make When Teaching the Bible, and Building a Faithful Hermeneutic
Dec 3, 2025
Faith Womack, an author and Bible teacher with Bible Nerd Ministries, discusses how many Christians find the Bible confusing and often boring. She emphasizes the need for humility and context when reading Scripture. Womack critiques common mistakes made by pastors, like proof-texting and a lack of attention to genre. She shares personal stories about the misuse of Scripture and gives practical tools for more engaging study. Ultimately, Faith encourages listeners to approach the Bible with excitement and a spirit of worship.
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Check Your Reading Assumptions
- Approach the Bible by asking what you want it to say and how your assumptions shape your reading.
- Faith Womack calls this self-awareness the start of a faithful hermeneutic that avoids eisegesis.
Begin With Humble, Contextual Questions
- Start Bible study with a worshipful humility and ask the author's intent for the original audience.
- Learn genre, context, and ask hard questions to let the text form your theology rather than your preferences.
Contradictions Often Reflect Hermeneutics
- Apparent contradictions are often hermeneutical problems, not fatal errors in the text.
- Contextual purpose and genre explain differences like numeric variances between Kings and Chronicles.
