The application grid is a helpful tool from 9Marks that can serve pastors preparing sermons, as well as all of us when reading biblical texts. The grid has you examine how the main point of a passage applies to six areas:
- Unique salvation-historical. Does the main point address a text that thrusts forward the unfolding plot of redemption in history?
- Individual Non-Christian. Does the main point have implications for the unbeliever’s thinking, behavior, or motivations?
- Public. Does the main point have implications for how we conduct ourselves in the public squares of commerce, politics, justice, etc . . . ?
- Christological. Does the main point have implications for how we think about Christ Himself?
- Individual Christian. Does the main point have implications for my own persona discipleship to Christ?
- Local church. Does the main point have implications for how we conduct ourselves as an assembled congregation or in our corporate life together?
To print out a blank grid in PDF, click on the image below. Following the blank grid, there’s one filled out from an overview of 2 Samuel.
