Patterns
A pattern is a plan, model, or standard that can be used as a guide for repetitively doing or making something.
Next, we expand our scope by looking for patterns for how to apply specific gospel principles. In this phase, we are not looking for rhetorical or grammatical patterns (i.e., patterns in the text's words and phrases), as that was done in the rhetoric phase. Rather, we are looking for patterns we can follow for living the gospel (e.g., how to recognize the Spirit, or how to serve others).
The classic example of a pattern we can identify and follow is the Lord's Prayer (though not all patterns will be called out explicitly):
After this manner therefore pray ye:
Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil:
For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.