 Effective Tips for Bible Study Lovers Part 1 – Macro, Micro, Macro That's a Bible study phrase to help me remember to study both the big picture and the little details of Scripture. Macro, Big Picture. Who wrote this specific book? Who was their intended reader? What was the purpose of what they wrote? What were the historical, cultural, and political backdrops for what they wrote? What were the main ideas being communicated? Micro. What do the individual words mean in their original language? What does their context reveal about their intended meaning? What are the subtopics being addressed? Then, back to macro. Because once I've studied some of the smaller questions, I can look at the bigger picture with more details. Macro, Micro, Macro. What Bible study methods do you recommend? Tell me in the comment section.