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Table of Contents
Table of Contents
1 Get Discounts From My Bookshelf
2 About the Author
3 Introduction
4 Purpose of Sentence Block Diagramming
5 Bible Study Method: Sentence Block Diagram
6 How to do Block Sentence Diagramming?
7 Sentence Block Diagram Format
8 Read the Bible in Sentence Block Diagram
9 A Brief Outline Structure of Matthew
10 Matthew Chapter 1
11 Matthew Chapter 2
12 Matthew Chapter 3
13 Matthew Chapter 4
14 Matthew Chapter 5
15 Matthew Chapter 6
16 Matthew Chapter 7
17 Matthew Chapter 8
18 Matthew Chapter 9
19 Matthew Chapter 10
20 Matthew Chapter 11
21 Matthew Chapter 12
22 Matthew Chapter 13
23 Matthew Chapter 14
24 Matthew Chapter 15
25 Matthew Chapter 16
26 Matthew Chapter 17
27 Matthew Chapter 18
28 Matthew Chapter 19
29 Matthew Chapter 20
30 Matthew Chapter 21
31 Matthew Chapter 22
32 Matthew Chapter 23
33 Matthew Chapter 24
34 Matthew Chapter 25
35 Matthew Chapter 26
36 Matthew Chapter 27
37 Matthew Chapter 28
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About the Author
Raymond and Rosa Suen minister together in a local church in Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong. Together, they have been serving together in the pastoral ministry for 30+ years.
Rosa is also a church pianist and have served in this capacity for over 35 years.
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Introduction
I am a minister and have been pastoring in a local church in Hong Kong in Tsuen Wan Christian Disciples Church. Together with my wife, Rosa, we have been in the ministry for nearly 25 years.
The biggest burden in our hearts in shepherding the church is to motivate Christians to read the Word of God with fire and interest. People come to church because they want to listen to the Word of God expounded correctly. In this way, they can draw strength from God's Word to live their Christian life.
In the last 5 years, we have been teaching our congregation a Bible Study Method to help them quickly understand the theme of each Bible Books. Once they learn this Bible study method, they are able to grasp the themes of the Bible quickly. This is very encouraging.
The Bible study method is called Block Sentence Diagramming
. I learned this sentence diagramming approach to study the Bible in the seminary and in the last 25 years, I have been using this to prepare all my sermons and Bible studies.
This series of Bible Books can be used for:
1. Personal Devotions
2. Bible study Preparations
3. Sermons
4. Sunday School
5. Personal Growth and spiritual enrichment
Purpose of Sentence Block Diagramming
The beauty of this Sentence Block Diagram is that you see everything visually in one glance. Right away, it is very easy for you to isolate important themes of Bible Books.
Why is it important for us to grasp the key themes of each book of the Bible?
Our minds are usually not very focused because we are distracted by many daily matters. So when it comes to reading the Bible and doing our devotions, it is very difficult to put our minds in focus. Words are just words and they don’t' speak to us. And when I started showing people my Bible with Sentence Block Diagram, they get very excited because they see everything in one flash. Suddenly the words in the Bible become meaningful to them because of the format.
Suddenly what seems to be so difficult to understand is suddenly made easy. They discover that they are able to isolate key themes in their Bible studies preparation and sermon passages.
I discover that my congregation remembers the sermons and Bible studies much better. What they remember, they will continue to meditate on their own, and they grow spiritually.
Bible Study Method: Sentence Block Diagram
Learn how to study the Bible by using this analytical approach of using sentence block diagramming method.
1. This approach is the path to a deep understanding of the major themes of each book of the Holy Bible.
2. The entire Sentence Block Diagramming is to isolate the nouns, the verbs, the prepositions, adjectives, object, adverbs etc so that you can see the Bible verses written in a 'visual' format.
3. You will be able to see the main theme - the subject matter - clearly when the sentences are blocked and marked in different lines.
4. Most of our Bibles are formatted in either by verses or by paragraphs. In this Sentence Block Diagram, you will see sentences broken off in segments so that you can see the major themes and parallelism.
5. You can use this as a Bible study guide to help you prepare sermons, Bible lectures, Bible seminars, Bible study groups for adults, Bible study group for youths. You can also use this approach to teach Sunday School.
6. To do sentence block diagram method, you need to know your English grammar a bit so that you can isolate Subject and Predicate. The Subject is the main noun and the predicate is the main verb. You can actually pick up an English Grammar Book and see how they parse sentences to subject and predicate forms.
How to do Block Sentence Diagramming?
It is very easy.
Follow these simple rules.
Rules:
1. Find the SUBJECT of the sentence. A sentence at the very least must have a subject. The subject can be a noun or pronoun (he, she it, etc). It is usually at the beginning. The subject is usually a person, or persons, or things that perform an action, or actions.
2. Find the Predicate. The predicate is the main verb. Usually it follows the main noun. Verbs are words that show actions. For eg. show, dance, walk, run, write, draw. Some verbs are state of being when they use 'to be'. For eg. Am, is, are, was were, etc.
3. Find the Direct Object. This is the person or thing that receives the action of the verb.
4. The remaining words are modifiers in the sentence serve to describe, clarify or give us more information about the subject or the verb.
a. Adjectives usually describe the noun.
b. Adverbs describe the action.
c. Prepositional phrases are groups of words that begin with a preposition and end with a noun or pronoun. They function the same way as an adjective or an adverb.
5. Write the sentences out in diagrams form. A diagram arranges the parts of a sentence like a picture in order to show the relationship of the words within the sentence.
Since this is an ebook, I am unable to provide all the horizontal, vertical and slash lines.
I will simply place them below the words. You will be able to see where they are placed when you read them.
Sentence Block Diagram Format
1. By doing sentence diagramming of each book, I am able to extract the major themes the author wants to tell us without subjective interpretation.
2. When you see the format of the sentence diagram, you will see everything clearly in ONE flash.
3. You will also discover that you can't do without this formatting each time when you prepare a sermon or a Bible study.
4. When all the points are laid out so clearly in front of you, you can extract 10 to 15 sermons from the points and sub points. This will give you a series to preach at church for 3 months to half a year.
5. You will be able to do expository preaching to feed your congregation weekly without running out of material.
6. For each sermon, you have a very vivid THEME to preach on.
7. The main theme of the sentences starts at the left hand margin so that you can see where the main clause begins.
7. All the other sub points are indented.
8. Sometimes with the indention, you see alphabetical points or number points – they are all sub points to help you see the structure.
9. All the sentence diagramming is done in an easy-to-read for your meditation and study.
10. The major of the work is done for you by giving you the VISUAL format.
Read the Bible in Sentence Block Diagram
In this series of Books, I have done all the hard work for you by giving you the result of the 'Sentence Block Diagram'. You do not need to struggle through to do the sentence block diagram yourself. You can start reading the Bible in the Sentence Block Diagram Method by having these sets of Bible Books.
In order not to do any interpretation for you, I don’t tell you how to section your sermons or Bible study material. I’ve tried to avoid any interpretation and that is the
