A guide for leaders of the Beginners and Learners course to help them begin and master Bible meditation.

As we navigate a new world, a world entirely different from the past, due to the coronavirus, we need new strength, and we believe we can find that strength in God's Word.
To this end, the Bible Union Mission Society has completely renewed its Bible meditation training materials to help people learn and practice meditation more efficiently.
The most significant feature of this renewal is that the Bible meditation training is divided into three stages: beginner, learning, and establishment, allowing individuals and churches to select and use the training materials for the desired stage according to their needs and level.
『Bible Meditation Beginner + Learning Course Leader's Guide』is a guidebook that helps you lead an integrated course that includes an 'Initial Course' where you learn step-by-step the necessity of Bible meditation and how to get started, and a 'Learning Course' where you systematically learn and practice meditation methods so that Bible meditation can become a routine part of your Christian life.
The "Bible Meditation Beginner + Learning Course Leader's Guide" will be a practical and useful resource for pastors and leaders who teach or train in Bible meditation in churches or gatherings.

Here, the Hebrew word for 'run' is 'rahaf', which means 'to cover', 'to flutter', and 'to incubate', which is the same meaning as 'raising' when we say 'parents raise their children'.
By the grace of God we are born again as His children.
And through the nurturing care of the Holy Spirit, who embraces and covers us, we grow up to be holy and perfect children, without blemish or spot, glorious before God.
How does He do this? He nurtures us daily with the Word of God, His teaching and instruction.
--- From "Bible Meditation, Lesson 1: A New Person, a New Way of Life"

Narrow down the time frame and reflect on what has been on your mind and heart over the past few days or today.
Through this reflection, it is also important to realize that we are repeatedly meditating on something without even being aware of it.
What matters is the object of meditation.
Depending on the object of meditation, the results it produces also differ.
We must meditate on the word of God.
And then later, it would be good if the word met my needs or my situation.
--- From "Bible Meditation, Lesson 2, A New Way of Life, Bible Meditation"

The prepared time and place were both important factors for our predecessors in the faith.
The mind is prepared at the prepared time and place.
God, who commanded Moses to come up to the top of Mount Sinai in the morning, also asks us to set a prepared time and place.
You need to put your heart into deciding on a time and place to prepare.
Meditation needs a framework to be properly established.
This is the process by which priorities are determined.
It involves making time and setting up a place.

--- From “Lesson 2 of the Bible Meditation Learning Process: The Order and Method of Bible Meditation”

Asking questions is about understanding the content and broadening the scope of thought by asking, "Why is that so?"
By asking the question, “Why?” I move beyond superficial reading and the stories begin to connect with my thoughts.
The Bible story is not an external story, but a point of contact where it begins to relate to my thoughts and life.
By asking questions, we begin to engage with and respond to the content of the text.
If you don't ask questions, the text will just pass by like a passing scenery.
It lingers in our eyes for a moment, but never reaches our heads.
As time goes by, it will soon be forgotten.
Asking questions is the beginning of a response that makes you stay with the text a little longer.
When reading the Bible, you must always ask questions.

--- From "Bible Meditation Learning Course 3, Bible Meditation Training 1 - Reading and Writing"