REVIEW
LET GOD SPEAK: HIS WORD IS AUTHORITY
A PERSONAL TESTIMONY
Praise God for this book. Brilliant!
During my theological training, I studied exegesis for four years, with an average of 4 semester hours of lectures each week. At the end of the studies, I could only throw all my notes into the trash.
Nothing that was said established a methodology for doing exegesis nor how to record it for the future.
Interestingly, it was on my annual vacation with the family at the end of my first exit year of pastoral ministry, that I discovered what exegesis was all about. I had taken Kenneth Wuest’s Word Series book First Peter in the Greek New Testament to use in my devotions each day. I was amazed to find the simple significance of the Greek in order to understand the bible.
I was suddenly brimming with information that I desperately wished to keep at my fingertips, but how to record it in a readily accessible form. And so the search for a methodology.
Dr Swincer’s book explains clearly why the bible is authoritative, how it should be interpreted, and then how to use it in the ministry of preaching and teaching through careful exegesis for my contemporary situation. But the cream on the cake, is a model for a methodology of how to cumulatively record the fruit of my labours in preparation. Brilliant!