Lesson 10 | Long Passages

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Learn how to arc whole books, and how to complement Arcing with other methods.

What we learned this lesson

1. You can discover the central message of a book yourself by creating a “macro arc”—a summary arc that seeks to connect large sections, or even entire books together.
2. Arc together the main point summaries for each section. Or only divide the text up on major breaks.
3. The toughest part of a macro arc is deciding which pieces ought to be connected first. Start by making a choice, knowing that you may revisit it later on.
4. Arcing complements other Bible study methods.
5. Markup is all about asking questions of the text, making observations via highlights and underlines, and reading the Bible with purpose.
6. Phrasing zooms us in one level further than Arcing as we examine how each phrase works grammatically in a sentence.
7. Bracketing is an alternative form of Arcing in which the connections between the propositions are visualized with brackets instead of arcs. Its strength is to most clearly display the main point of the passage via the longest horizontal line.
8. While Phrasing works extremely well for studying the grammar of Biblical Hebrew, Diagramming is a great fit for working through the Greek New Testament.