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| I'm reading The Divine Mentor before starting to SOAP. Journey mug text, "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." Jeremiah 29:11. |
An acronym is a word or name formed as an abbreviation from the initial
components in a phrase or a word, usually individual letters and
sometimes syllables.
There are no universal standards of the multiple names for such abbreviations and of their orthographic styling.
In English and most other languages, such abbreviations historically
had limited use, but they became much more common in the 20th century.
Acronyms are a type of word formation process, and they are viewed as a sub-type of blending.
Modern Christians sometimes use acronyms to help them remember how to
study scripture while they journal. SOAP is an acronym for:
- SCRIPTURE, HOLY - (God breathed) a word derived from the Latin scriptura, and in its original sense of the same import with writing, signifying "any thing written." It is, by emphasis, however, commonly used to denote the writings of the Old and New Testaments, which are called sometimes the Scriptures, sometimes the sacred or holy Scriptures, and sometimes canonical Scriptures. These books are called the Scriptures by way of eminence, as they are the most important of all writings. They are said to be holy, or sacred, on account of the sacred doctrines which they teach; and they are termed canonical, because, when their number and authenticity were ascertained, their names were inserted in ecclesiastical cannons, to distinguish them from all other books, which, being of no godly authority.
- OBSERVATION - (see Mind) Mind; a thinking, intelligent being; otherwise called spirit, or soul. Dr. Watts has given us some admirable thoughts as to the improvement of the mind. "There are five eminent means of methods, " he observes, "whereby the mind is improved in the knowledge of things; and these are, observation, reading, instruction by lectures, conversation, and meditation; which last, in a most peculiar manner, is called study.
- APPLICATION - is used for the act whereby our Savior transfers or makes over to us what he had earned or purchased by his holy life and death. Accordingly it is by this application of the merits of Christ that we are to be justified and entitled to grace and glory. Application is also used for that part of a sermon in which the preacher brings home or applies the truth of religion to the consciences of his hearers. Application by The Believer: How do I apply scripture to my personal life?
- PRAYER - has been well defined, the offering up of our desires unto God, for things agreeable to his will, in the name or through the mediation of Jesus Christ, by the help of the Holy Spirit, with a confession of our sins, and a thankful acknowledgment of his mercies.
Pastor Wayne Cordeiro talks about SOAP.
Listen to The Divine Mentor
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