While God's plan has been to give His people pastors and teachers, there is no substitute for personal and direct involvement with the Scriptures. Many have found that they don't get much from their teachers until they have become personally involved in regular and systematic Bible study. One method of personal Bible study is called the inductive method. This method challenges the student to form conclusions only after observing and analyzing the elements of immediate context and normal word meanings. The primary purpose of this stage is to collect as many facts as possible about the context.
Inductive students are curious.
They don't take anything for granted. What logic indicators can be found and marked in words such as therefore, then, and, also, but, however , or nevertheless . It is at this stage that a chapter might be outlined or a sentence diagrammed to see how the ideas of the author relate to one another. The purpose of this stage is focus. Discover the context.