This week’s application assignment provides an opportunity to practice hermeneutical principles. Organize your paper by numerically answering each question. Make sure that all questions are answered. Note that question number six deals with the process and not your product or analysis of the text. The question wants you to think about the process and how it might be applied in a broader sense within your educational setting.

Analyze and outline the “Flow of Thought” in Philippians 4:10-19.

Paul refers to a past connection between him and the Philippians and to their present concern for him.

Use a Bible dictionary or other reference as needed to briefly describe Paul’s circumstances, and his relationship to the Philippians.

How are these relevant to the teaching in 4:10-19?

4. What particular “thing” [specific topic] was Paul referring to in 4:13 when he said, “I can do all things through Him….”? Explain.

5. What principles do you see taught in this passage?

6. What educational application of content-principles could be seen from this scripture:

How does the central problem with which Paul wrestled, and its solution, apply to Christian educators?

Describe how principles from the passage might be integrated into curriculum, either through curriculum content itself, and/or through the educator’s life.

7. Describe the pedagogical [“science/art of teaching”] principles or ideas [the approach and the doing] that you have learned from the process of this assignment that could be useful in your own sphere of education.