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Question 8

The chapter urges making specific commitments while reading (forgiving “Susan,” quitting anger at “Pete”), plus praying, praising, confessing, and asking for power; what is one concrete obedience that your recent Bible reading should have produced but didn’t, and what does that suggest about how you are currently “using Scripture as a mirror”?

Another way to ask: Name one clear action you should have taken because of your recent Bible reading, but didn’t. What does that say about whether you are really letting Scripture show you what needs to change?

Direct Answer The transcript can’t name your specific missed obedience, but it teaches that when reading doesn’t lead to concrete commitments, we may be treating Scripture as information rather than as a mirror for repentance and change. Bercot’s model is that real Bible reading should produce specific confession, forgiveness, and resolve to obey.

Support from Transcript:

While reading we should be “constantly praying, praising…confessing disobedience…making commitments…asking for power.”
Commitments should be “more than just general resolutions…very specific.”
Examples: resolving to stop anger at “Pete’s rude behavior,” and forgiving “Susan” after “harboring resentment…for years.”
Scripture is “given to us for instruction in righteousness” (2 Tim. 3:16).
“Use the Scriptures as a mirror to measure our own lives and our growth in Christ.”
Those who read mainly for head knowledge gain little “spiritual nourishment.”

Discussion Follow-ups If you can’t point to a specific commitment from recent reading, what might need to change: slower reading, more prayer during reading, or more willingness to confess and act immediately?

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