Taking Notes

Notes made during reading of Scripture and the readings will be the means of making sense of the parts, of bringing the bits and pieces together into a whole.

Reading Scripture in relation to doctrine involves looking at the Scripture on two different levels: the first, to know what the passage says generally; the second, to look at the passage from the perspective of doctrine.

The pattern for taking notes on readings includes these steps: 1) identifying key terms or phrases, 2) listing main ideas in the reading, 3) indicating points of difficulty or questions, 4) writing a sentence that summarizes the main ideas, and 5) preparing a statement of the doctrine based on the week’s readings.