How to Read an Epistle Evidence Grid

Lesson: Y4-L13 - How to Read an Epistle

Purpose

Support the primary activity for How to Read an Epistle.

Instructions

1. Read the principal passage.
2. Record direct observations.
3. Separate interpretation from application.
4. Name one faithful response.

Text

Philemon 1-25

Big idea

A New Testament letter addresses real people and circumstances before it is applied to later readers.

Guardrails

Read Philemon as an actual letter to real people before extracting general principles. | Do not use the letter to minimise the moral seriousness of slavery or coercive power.