Last week I wrote about the need to visualize ideas to help either express yourself or understand. Turns out I had that book (Blah, Blah, Blah by Dan Roam) in my stack of t0-read books. Interesting book.
As I studied Romans a few months ago, I started to sketch out the ideas. This is an unfinished flow chart that I started and captured digitally. (I’m actually playing with a new iPad app called Whiteboard Pro.) You could chart the main ideas. See how they fit together. And then get a sense of the argument. I like to see how the parts fit into the whole. It helps explain the context and avoid the problems that happen when you take things out of context.
This is just a quick sketch from memory, but hopefully you can get the idea. Under each of the main items in the flow chart, you could list Paul’s main examples or points. You could add points that you found important. Then you could get a sense of what the author really means. Try one.
Here is a quick sketch I made of a flow chart of Paul’s argument in Romans.
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