Paul Woodley suggests reading the Gospel of John verse by verse as if you've never seen it before, setting aside doctrinal assumptions like the Trinity to take the words at face value.
We hear here distinctively, at least in the Gospel of John, and we're going to try to take John face value, right? We're not going to project our opinion on the text. If we know our Bible, we're not going to— here, what I'm trying to do here is I'm trying to go verse by verse as if I never read the Bible before. I'm not going to presuppose things or doctrinal issues like, let's say, the Trinity. That's the approach we're taking here in our Bible study, is we're going to assume that this is the very first time we're reading this, this Bible.
