ALWAYS be sure you are reading within the context meant. If you are reading a text, or someone uses a single text to try and prove a point, STOP and backup. Read the surrounding texts. Be sure you understand who is talking and who their audience was. A good example of this is Paul's writings. Paul writes to many different churches in his time and has specific messages for them. A good example of this will be given when I discuss justification in a later lesson.
Don't skip the boring stuff. A good example of something many of us skip over is the genealogies of the Bible. All those begats just seem useless. The reality is that they are a timeline. They help lay out the "when" of Bible history and at times are proof of the prophecy. A perfect example of this is how Luke 3:1 gives the exact time in history of Jesus' baptism, correlate this back to the 70-week prophecy in Daniel for proof that Christ is the person being talked about in the prophecy and that the prophetic timeline was perfectly on time.
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