Associate Pastor, Chris Peterson, has developed a tool for Bible study. The women of OBC covered it recently at their Women’s Weekend study. The tool is known as CRAM.
This is how it was explained to me when I asked about its origin: The foundation of the CRAM method is S.S.D.O.P. = Supremacy, Sufficiency, Dependency, Obedience and Praise. Chris developed it based on the book of Colossians. Colossians can basically be broken out like this: Col 1 is Sovereignty (Supremacy specifically v13) Col. 1-2 Sufficiency, Col 3.1-4 Dependence, Col 3:5-14 Obedience, Col 3.15-17 is Praise. A car analogy was used as an example. When we have a car and think it is Supreme then it will be Sufficient and thus we will not look for another car. We will Depend on the car: we will drive it and not bum rides or take a bus. We will then Obey the car by taking care of its maintenance and wash it. If we think it is sufficient and supreme, we depend on it and obey its needs…then we will Praise our car, “This van is great! It gets great gas millage, I’ve never had to repair it, it rides so smooth, etc…”
CRAM is an acronym for Character and Truth of God, Responsibility of the Believer, Attitudes and Actions [needed by me], Meditation. It is a very flexible devotional tool. The key is to study an entire book all the way through to keep from misinterpreting the writer’s meaning and to preserve context.
The CRAM works for the entire Bible, but some books are easier for those beginning with this method. These books were suggested as a “launching point”: James, Colossians, I Peter, I John, Titus, Ephesians, Philippians, Galatians, I & II Timothy and Romans.
In the next few posts, I will be covering how CRAM works. I hope you will check back in the next several days. I pray you will be blessed by this study tool, as I know I have.
In Him,
R.
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