I am interested in purchasing a small, almost pocket size Bible to carry with me wherever I go. I owuld like it to be NIV and not a study bible or anything. Just a plain NIV Bible. It would also be a plus if it was not too expensive. Any help would be appreciated!
Does anyone know where I can find a Small NIV Bible?
Christian book stores carry many sizes and versions. Also try Amazon and eBay or Half.com
Most Calvary Chapels have bookstores. Try the one in your area.
Christian bookstores in my are area called:
Berean Christian Bookstore
Selah Christian Books (this music store is caled SoundTheology, which I think is a pretty cool name).
Cornerstone Bookstore
Or try http://www.cbd.com
Reply:Family Christian Stores
Lifeway Christian Stores
or even in the most random places: Grocery, WalMart, Target, ect...
Good luck!
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Sunday, August 22, 2010
Where in the bible is agape written?
This question was asked in bible study and I'm not able to find the answer and I need help. The question was asked where is the word agape (not love) found in the bible?
Where in the bible is agape written?
I THINK YOU WILL FIND IT IN JOHN 13:21-34 NOT JUST ABOUT LOVE, BUT THE LOVE FEAST, OR THE LAST SUPER.
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Where in the bible is agape written?
I THINK YOU WILL FIND IT IN JOHN 13:21-34 NOT JUST ABOUT LOVE, BUT THE LOVE FEAST, OR THE LAST SUPER.
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Should every Christian be in a small group for bible study & accountability?
Yes... The local church itself was normally a "small group" in New Testament times. The church often met in members homes and was thus forced to meet in smaller groups by a lack of available space.
Today's "mega-churches" allow too many people and situations to 'fall through the cracks' where the pattern we see in the New Testament would have likely prevented it.
A study was performed several years ago which indicated that almost all "growing churches" included weekly (or more often) meetings of 20 or fewer adults. A variety of possibilities existed for these meetings, like conventional small groups in homes during the week, "Sunday school" classes, etc. but they existed in most growing churches.
Should every Christian be in a small group for bible study %26amp; accountability?
Yes. You won't find truth in Churchianity. Bless the creators name (YHVH)
Reply:I think that every person should have and accountability partner.
Today's "mega-churches" allow too many people and situations to 'fall through the cracks' where the pattern we see in the New Testament would have likely prevented it.
A study was performed several years ago which indicated that almost all "growing churches" included weekly (or more often) meetings of 20 or fewer adults. A variety of possibilities existed for these meetings, like conventional small groups in homes during the week, "Sunday school" classes, etc. but they existed in most growing churches.
Should every Christian be in a small group for bible study %26amp; accountability?
Yes. You won't find truth in Churchianity. Bless the creators name (YHVH)
Reply:I think that every person should have and accountability partner.
Why are Bible-fundamentalists encouraged to study the Bible, but not its origins or church history?
I would think knowing about how the Christian church began, how the Bible was compiled, who compiled the Bible and early Christian beliefs would behoove anyone who claims to be Christian. But apparently, this only seems to be important to Catholics. I guess that's why they are Catholic, rather than some other form of Christianity which began anytime from the 16th century to the present time.
Why are Bible-fundamentalists encouraged to study the Bible, but not its origins or church history?
To understand the problem you need to understand Luther's problem. Luther would have sorrowed at what he created. In fact, toward the end of his life he did. Fundamentalists are Protestant zealots. It is always useful to look at any zealot or group of zealots because they believe the party line in its truest and most literal sense. This is true whether we are talking John Paul II, St. Francis of Assisi, Meno Simmons, or Fundamentalists as a group.
Luther had the problem that his teachings contradicted first and second century teachings. He knew this. It is important to remember that Luther rejected James, Jude and Revelations. He rejected some of what is now considered scripture and all of the writings of the people trained by the apostles and who were ordained by them. Polycarp was one of the redactors of John's Gospel. So to drop Polycarp's writings leaves John's writings open to any discussion you want. The same is true for Ignatius or indirectly for Irenaeaus.
Luther ran down the logic train that the church must have gone wrong somewhere and in that logic train, he rejected papal authority. In doing so, he recognized that he had rejected the only authorizing party for the bible, so he wrote his own. His is often, correctly, accused of altering the bible. This sounds terrible now, but was not historically uncommon, even in Luther's day. It wouldn't necessarily have even been considered wrong at the time. Certainly Luther had no problem with it.
Out of this mess, which is now called the middle ages, came Luther's five solas, of which one is sola scriptura.
Sola scriptura is a weak principle. It is weak because it implies that God only grants salvation to those who could read. Others, of course would be eligible, but would be helpless to get to God without a reader. It also requires that you have a known true set of scriptures. We know, factually, that there are 400,000 variant New Testament passages. We know that the writings of the apostolic fathers, when they quote scripture, and they were the original readers, do not match what we use as scripture.
Fundamentalists as Protestant zealots live the five solas, not just the scripture. In doing so, they are inadvertently adopting a religious tradition. They reject "apostolic" tradition in favor of Protestant tradition.
Since the scripture alone is all that is needed, any other book is not really necessary unless it serves a practical purpose. You can therefore then ignore any compilation process, church history process and any other early beliefs clearly held in the first century but not clearly spoken of in scripture.
They just do not see the point of reading it, I think. There is a great book by Scott Hahn, who was an evangelical theologian and scripture scholar. He accidently picked up a powerful and tremendous work on scripture. It was saying all the things he was saying by reading the bible and the Jewish commentary on covenant theology. He got to the end, looked at the author to get more books and realized it was a Catholic priest.
They do not read Catholic stuff because they see no point. This lead him down a journey of discovery. He read another book by a Catholic priest and he had the terrifying insight that Catholics may be more scriptural than Protestants. His wife, also a theologian, was very distressed so they called another Protestant theologian to come help. The two of them consumed Catholic books, from the Fathers forward. The goal of calling the friend was to get himself back on the true way.
As they read, they both entered into a deep religious crisis. So they called a leading theologian from Harvard. The theologian's response on certain key Protestant beliefs was that they are not defendable from the bible, they are simply beliefs that are held by Protestants. They cannot be defended, just accepted.
Ultimately, the friend he invited to return him to the way, was received into the Catholic Church and chided him for taking so long in doing what he needed to do. Scott eventually became Catholic and in the end, so did his wife.
As long as people talk past each other, they do not really talk.
Reply:Raven! You're back! Happy to see you!
And I totally agree with you.
Reply:because knowing the true history of the Church would expose them to the light and they don't want it.
by the way, what an excellent question! God bless you!
edit: happy to see you!
Reply:There's a telling indication in the book liner for the book "Peter and the Keys." A number of Protestant historians note on the liner that the historical case for a Petrine ecclesiology is in fact quite strong. The scriptural support is incredibly strong, and the writings of early Christians are very nearly a lock.
That alone is why evangelical pastors do not encourage their flock to study about the history of the church and the bible (to the extent that they themselves are even aware of it): if people knew how strong the case for the Catholic view of history really was, some of their own fundamental tenets would come into question.
Reply:Because our Lord only directed us to study the scripture and if he wanted us to study the historical evidence behind it he would have directed us to do that also.
John 5: 39 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
Reply:Excellent question. And why don't they insist on following and requiring their followers to read the original Greek and Hebrew?
But lets take step back and ask what do they mean by fundamental? While I've studied the Greek and Hebrew texts and some of the Latin translations and even looked briefly at the abominable translation job done in the early 1600s my knowledge of the more contemporary religious creations becomes cloudy.
Do they mean 'fundamental' as in the 'origins' or as in 'the important basics'.
Very different things. Being a student of its history my first assumption was 'origin' however they might not mean that.
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Quella Bella- But what do you mean by 'bible'? If you have read even a single page in the original language I commend you if not then aren't you a hypocrite?
Reply:I love it when the Christians fight amongst themselves. And the most interesting fact is that they use the same argument on each other that they do on the rest of us!
Blessed Be
Reply:Fundies aren't actually encouraged to read the ENTIRE Bible. They just pick out the parts they can feel warm and fuzzy about, and ignore the many violent, immoral, and sick parts.
Reply:Because I would suppose it means taking the good with the bad. Kind of takes away of bit of the euphoria.
Reply:Before the word "Fundamentalist" entered the public eye in a negative context, it simply meant getting back to the origins of christianity, coming from the word "fundamental" which in essence means "original teachings".
It is also connected to the main question as to why "Christian Fundamentalists", do not study their "later christian history" more than in the most superficial way.
"Fundamentalist" christians tend to stick to the history based on the contextual evidence of the books of the bible, thus they will ignore later "Church Fathers" especially those that came after the Nicene Council in 325 A.D.
Ante-Nicene Fathers, or the "Apostolic church fathers" who came before the Nicene Council are usually the basis of what protestant teachings are based on as opposed to those teachings that came after this council.
The writngs of Clement, Ignatius, Polycarp, Barnabas, Hermas, Epistle to Diognetus, Papias, Justin Martyr and Irenaeus who lived in the 1st century are only 2nd in importance to the Apostolic Writings by the disciples themselves.
Since it is from this time onward that "paganism" and "church tradition" started being equated with equivalent wheight to that of the scriptures themselves, most writings historical and otherwise (theological) were influenced by this continued encroachment (especially after the council of Nicaea), until eventually what the church many times said, had nothing to do, and many times directly contradicted scripture itself.
It is due to this situation that Luther and later, Calvin, would break with the Catholic church,but it does not mean to say that they stopped being catholics. They merely initiated the process, because the process of returning to the "fundamentals" of christianity is not complete, even today.
Jor-el
Reply:Once I got into studying the history of the Bible and the Church, I left fundamentalism. That may be the answer right there.
Reply:I'm sorry, but who exactly do you get this from? We can study whatever we like.
perhaps what you should ask yourself is why would any church NEED so desperately to justify their existence and the fact that they belive things which are not in the Bible....
Is is because if they don't justify it, people might actually start thinking for themselves and questioning it???
Reply:We DO study the Bible's origins, dear one. But give us a bit of a break here. There aren't many of us on the board who are Theologians or who have a degree in Biblical history, etc. We're just ordinary Christians who love the Lord and His Word.
I've studied the Bible for over 50 years and the more I learn, the more I realize that I still have MUCH to learn.
Unless you are wise beyond the majority of educated Christians, please stop trying to bash us. It only makes you appear ugly.
God bless!
Reply:the church has very corrupt beginnings, and it is still pretty corrupt. look at how catholics are molesting kids. that's been there since it started. and money, while it might not be used like this today, was used for their own purposes back then instead of for the poor. and also if they learn enough about the origins it might make them realized how it's all a bunch of bullshit. so the church doesn't emphasize much on when it started, just on how you'll go to hell if you're bad.
Reply:well... anyone who HAS analysed the Bible as a historical must know it is appalling- many of the authors are unknown and we don't knwop where any of the evidance comes from. Lots of it was probably written from stories told orginally by word of mouth and a game of chinese whispers will tell you how un-reliable that is!! Furthermore, the whole book was written to convince people God exists so it is subjective- all in all if you want to believe in it your better saying 'it was god' and washing over it.
Why are Bible-fundamentalists encouraged to study the Bible, but not its origins or church history?
To understand the problem you need to understand Luther's problem. Luther would have sorrowed at what he created. In fact, toward the end of his life he did. Fundamentalists are Protestant zealots. It is always useful to look at any zealot or group of zealots because they believe the party line in its truest and most literal sense. This is true whether we are talking John Paul II, St. Francis of Assisi, Meno Simmons, or Fundamentalists as a group.
Luther had the problem that his teachings contradicted first and second century teachings. He knew this. It is important to remember that Luther rejected James, Jude and Revelations. He rejected some of what is now considered scripture and all of the writings of the people trained by the apostles and who were ordained by them. Polycarp was one of the redactors of John's Gospel. So to drop Polycarp's writings leaves John's writings open to any discussion you want. The same is true for Ignatius or indirectly for Irenaeaus.
Luther ran down the logic train that the church must have gone wrong somewhere and in that logic train, he rejected papal authority. In doing so, he recognized that he had rejected the only authorizing party for the bible, so he wrote his own. His is often, correctly, accused of altering the bible. This sounds terrible now, but was not historically uncommon, even in Luther's day. It wouldn't necessarily have even been considered wrong at the time. Certainly Luther had no problem with it.
Out of this mess, which is now called the middle ages, came Luther's five solas, of which one is sola scriptura.
Sola scriptura is a weak principle. It is weak because it implies that God only grants salvation to those who could read. Others, of course would be eligible, but would be helpless to get to God without a reader. It also requires that you have a known true set of scriptures. We know, factually, that there are 400,000 variant New Testament passages. We know that the writings of the apostolic fathers, when they quote scripture, and they were the original readers, do not match what we use as scripture.
Fundamentalists as Protestant zealots live the five solas, not just the scripture. In doing so, they are inadvertently adopting a religious tradition. They reject "apostolic" tradition in favor of Protestant tradition.
Since the scripture alone is all that is needed, any other book is not really necessary unless it serves a practical purpose. You can therefore then ignore any compilation process, church history process and any other early beliefs clearly held in the first century but not clearly spoken of in scripture.
They just do not see the point of reading it, I think. There is a great book by Scott Hahn, who was an evangelical theologian and scripture scholar. He accidently picked up a powerful and tremendous work on scripture. It was saying all the things he was saying by reading the bible and the Jewish commentary on covenant theology. He got to the end, looked at the author to get more books and realized it was a Catholic priest.
They do not read Catholic stuff because they see no point. This lead him down a journey of discovery. He read another book by a Catholic priest and he had the terrifying insight that Catholics may be more scriptural than Protestants. His wife, also a theologian, was very distressed so they called another Protestant theologian to come help. The two of them consumed Catholic books, from the Fathers forward. The goal of calling the friend was to get himself back on the true way.
As they read, they both entered into a deep religious crisis. So they called a leading theologian from Harvard. The theologian's response on certain key Protestant beliefs was that they are not defendable from the bible, they are simply beliefs that are held by Protestants. They cannot be defended, just accepted.
Ultimately, the friend he invited to return him to the way, was received into the Catholic Church and chided him for taking so long in doing what he needed to do. Scott eventually became Catholic and in the end, so did his wife.
As long as people talk past each other, they do not really talk.
Reply:Raven! You're back! Happy to see you!
And I totally agree with you.
Reply:because knowing the true history of the Church would expose them to the light and they don't want it.
by the way, what an excellent question! God bless you!
edit: happy to see you!
Reply:There's a telling indication in the book liner for the book "Peter and the Keys." A number of Protestant historians note on the liner that the historical case for a Petrine ecclesiology is in fact quite strong. The scriptural support is incredibly strong, and the writings of early Christians are very nearly a lock.
That alone is why evangelical pastors do not encourage their flock to study about the history of the church and the bible (to the extent that they themselves are even aware of it): if people knew how strong the case for the Catholic view of history really was, some of their own fundamental tenets would come into question.
Reply:Because our Lord only directed us to study the scripture and if he wanted us to study the historical evidence behind it he would have directed us to do that also.
John 5: 39 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
Reply:Excellent question. And why don't they insist on following and requiring their followers to read the original Greek and Hebrew?
But lets take step back and ask what do they mean by fundamental? While I've studied the Greek and Hebrew texts and some of the Latin translations and even looked briefly at the abominable translation job done in the early 1600s my knowledge of the more contemporary religious creations becomes cloudy.
Do they mean 'fundamental' as in the 'origins' or as in 'the important basics'.
Very different things. Being a student of its history my first assumption was 'origin' however they might not mean that.
---
Quella Bella- But what do you mean by 'bible'? If you have read even a single page in the original language I commend you if not then aren't you a hypocrite?
Reply:I love it when the Christians fight amongst themselves. And the most interesting fact is that they use the same argument on each other that they do on the rest of us!
Blessed Be
Reply:Fundies aren't actually encouraged to read the ENTIRE Bible. They just pick out the parts they can feel warm and fuzzy about, and ignore the many violent, immoral, and sick parts.
Reply:Because I would suppose it means taking the good with the bad. Kind of takes away of bit of the euphoria.
Reply:Before the word "Fundamentalist" entered the public eye in a negative context, it simply meant getting back to the origins of christianity, coming from the word "fundamental" which in essence means "original teachings".
It is also connected to the main question as to why "Christian Fundamentalists", do not study their "later christian history" more than in the most superficial way.
"Fundamentalist" christians tend to stick to the history based on the contextual evidence of the books of the bible, thus they will ignore later "Church Fathers" especially those that came after the Nicene Council in 325 A.D.
Ante-Nicene Fathers, or the "Apostolic church fathers" who came before the Nicene Council are usually the basis of what protestant teachings are based on as opposed to those teachings that came after this council.
The writngs of Clement, Ignatius, Polycarp, Barnabas, Hermas, Epistle to Diognetus, Papias, Justin Martyr and Irenaeus who lived in the 1st century are only 2nd in importance to the Apostolic Writings by the disciples themselves.
Since it is from this time onward that "paganism" and "church tradition" started being equated with equivalent wheight to that of the scriptures themselves, most writings historical and otherwise (theological) were influenced by this continued encroachment (especially after the council of Nicaea), until eventually what the church many times said, had nothing to do, and many times directly contradicted scripture itself.
It is due to this situation that Luther and later, Calvin, would break with the Catholic church,but it does not mean to say that they stopped being catholics. They merely initiated the process, because the process of returning to the "fundamentals" of christianity is not complete, even today.
Jor-el
Reply:Once I got into studying the history of the Bible and the Church, I left fundamentalism. That may be the answer right there.
Reply:I'm sorry, but who exactly do you get this from? We can study whatever we like.
perhaps what you should ask yourself is why would any church NEED so desperately to justify their existence and the fact that they belive things which are not in the Bible....
Is is because if they don't justify it, people might actually start thinking for themselves and questioning it???
Reply:We DO study the Bible's origins, dear one. But give us a bit of a break here. There aren't many of us on the board who are Theologians or who have a degree in Biblical history, etc. We're just ordinary Christians who love the Lord and His Word.
I've studied the Bible for over 50 years and the more I learn, the more I realize that I still have MUCH to learn.
Unless you are wise beyond the majority of educated Christians, please stop trying to bash us. It only makes you appear ugly.
God bless!
Reply:the church has very corrupt beginnings, and it is still pretty corrupt. look at how catholics are molesting kids. that's been there since it started. and money, while it might not be used like this today, was used for their own purposes back then instead of for the poor. and also if they learn enough about the origins it might make them realized how it's all a bunch of bullshit. so the church doesn't emphasize much on when it started, just on how you'll go to hell if you're bad.
Reply:well... anyone who HAS analysed the Bible as a historical must know it is appalling- many of the authors are unknown and we don't knwop where any of the evidance comes from. Lots of it was probably written from stories told orginally by word of mouth and a game of chinese whispers will tell you how un-reliable that is!! Furthermore, the whole book was written to convince people God exists so it is subjective- all in all if you want to believe in it your better saying 'it was god' and washing over it.
I'm 16 and I have this online teen bible study thing?
I need some ideas of topics to talk about...any ideas?
I'm 16 and I have this online teen bible study thing?
Talk about stuff that is relevant to you, if you group is around the same age as you then I'm sure they'll be able to identify. Talk about stuff that may seem cliche, pre-marrital sex, peer pressure, reading the bible and praying on a regular basis, but somehow try to make it fun. Sometimes those things get overlooked because we all feel like they've been talked about so much that we actually don't talk about them. God bless you with your endeavour. PS- poll the people in your group and ask them what would they like to talk about that way it will actually be effective!
Reply:How about the topic of being "born again"? It's a great one to discuss with other people! So many people call themselves Christians, yet they have never even heard of the need to be born again in order to enter heaven!
God bless you for what you're doing!!
Reply:Talk about how much more courage, honor and dignity is required to live without belief in a god.
Reply:How important prayer and faith are is a good subject to cover. mix in a little of Revelations to keep it fun like try to think of how many signs have been seen.
Reply:read the Bible. there has to be something in there that would pique your interest or curiosity.
Reply:OOO WELL LOOK IN ROMANS THE 1ST CHAPTER AND TALK ABOUT HOW BEING GAY IS AGAINST THE BIBLE
Reply:I am not sure what your group has already discussed, but I use to teach a youth group, and what they were interested in was things that they could relate to i today's day and time.
Pier pressure was always a good topic.
Discuss how you can over come pier pressure in today's society. Look up scriptures that will help you to explain how God will help them over come it and leave room for open discussions from the group. Let them tell of some experience that they have had to overcome and how they did it and also it will help the others see that they are not alone when it comes to pier pressure. Build on that and it will be an interesting Bible study.
Reply:The Song of Solomon.
Reply:One of my favorite teaching's of Christ is John chapter15...Jesus teaches about the vine and the branches. When I was your age I was surrounded by people who taught "once saved always saved." But I Never could wrap my head around their thinking. I did not agree with it. And God took me to John 15 and revealed so many truths in this passage. One crucial one is that we can lose our Salvation if we do not stay connected to the vine ( Jesus ). If we are faithful, our branches will bear much fruit. But those who shrink away from Christ will be cast into the fire.
Reply:Advanced or foundational?
Advanced:
What is Isaiah 19:19-20 talking about ? Where in Egypt is that? What does the Hebrew say about the words that were translated into English?
Foundational:
Why did the Council of Jerusalem go against what Peter said in Acts 15?
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I'm 16 and I have this online teen bible study thing?
Talk about stuff that is relevant to you, if you group is around the same age as you then I'm sure they'll be able to identify. Talk about stuff that may seem cliche, pre-marrital sex, peer pressure, reading the bible and praying on a regular basis, but somehow try to make it fun. Sometimes those things get overlooked because we all feel like they've been talked about so much that we actually don't talk about them. God bless you with your endeavour. PS- poll the people in your group and ask them what would they like to talk about that way it will actually be effective!
Reply:How about the topic of being "born again"? It's a great one to discuss with other people! So many people call themselves Christians, yet they have never even heard of the need to be born again in order to enter heaven!
God bless you for what you're doing!!
Reply:Talk about how much more courage, honor and dignity is required to live without belief in a god.
Reply:How important prayer and faith are is a good subject to cover. mix in a little of Revelations to keep it fun like try to think of how many signs have been seen.
Reply:read the Bible. there has to be something in there that would pique your interest or curiosity.
Reply:OOO WELL LOOK IN ROMANS THE 1ST CHAPTER AND TALK ABOUT HOW BEING GAY IS AGAINST THE BIBLE
Reply:I am not sure what your group has already discussed, but I use to teach a youth group, and what they were interested in was things that they could relate to i today's day and time.
Pier pressure was always a good topic.
Discuss how you can over come pier pressure in today's society. Look up scriptures that will help you to explain how God will help them over come it and leave room for open discussions from the group. Let them tell of some experience that they have had to overcome and how they did it and also it will help the others see that they are not alone when it comes to pier pressure. Build on that and it will be an interesting Bible study.
Reply:The Song of Solomon.
Reply:One of my favorite teaching's of Christ is John chapter15...Jesus teaches about the vine and the branches. When I was your age I was surrounded by people who taught "once saved always saved." But I Never could wrap my head around their thinking. I did not agree with it. And God took me to John 15 and revealed so many truths in this passage. One crucial one is that we can lose our Salvation if we do not stay connected to the vine ( Jesus ). If we are faithful, our branches will bear much fruit. But those who shrink away from Christ will be cast into the fire.
Reply:Advanced or foundational?
Advanced:
What is Isaiah 19:19-20 talking about ? Where in Egypt is that? What does the Hebrew say about the words that were translated into English?
Foundational:
Why did the Council of Jerusalem go against what Peter said in Acts 15?
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If you are in a women's Bible study, what is the best study you have ever done?
Actually, I am in my third year of a four year Bible study - based on the Denver Catholic Bible School study - and I would have to say that the prophets have been most interesting and enlightening.
If you are in a women's Bible study, what is the best study you have ever done?
The best study i been in is Faith. We are to keep looking up. Keep our faith, and Trust in Jesus. All things are possible with God on our side. We may not understand all the trials we go through, but God test us, to test our Faith. When things go wrong, we should never give up. Just keep our Faith in the Lord. Never question Him, just Trust in Him.
Reply:The 7 deadly sins by Maxie Dunham
Reply:This is a life changing Bible Study.
Knowing and Doing the Will of God. (Experiencing God)
By Henry T. Blackaby and Claude V. King.
http://www.lifeway.com/discipleplus
If you are in a women's Bible study, what is the best study you have ever done?
The best study i been in is Faith. We are to keep looking up. Keep our faith, and Trust in Jesus. All things are possible with God on our side. We may not understand all the trials we go through, but God test us, to test our Faith. When things go wrong, we should never give up. Just keep our Faith in the Lord. Never question Him, just Trust in Him.
Reply:The 7 deadly sins by Maxie Dunham
Reply:This is a life changing Bible Study.
Knowing and Doing the Will of God. (Experiencing God)
By Henry T. Blackaby and Claude V. King.
http://www.lifeway.com/discipleplus
Womans bible study about being a princess of God. Need some ideas. Anyone have any?
We are doing a womens conference next year at my church. We want to focus on being Princesses in God's eyes. Our target audience is teens.
Womans bible study about being a princess of God. Need some ideas. Anyone have any?
I don't know about princesses, but my first thought was the story of Esther. As a youth pastor, I have done a series on her and can say that there are loads of principles and truths that can be applied young women's lives.
Hope this helps a little!
Reply:Someday my prince will come
You can start out with what it means to be daughter of God. the importance of adoption (ie, once you adopt, you cannot EVER disown your child, and that is what it is like with God.)
What God expects out of His child, and how much He loves us.
You can end with an annointing for all those who have accepted their adoption into the family of God using Rose of Sharon oil on their forehead (you can get into the annointing of David to do God's work) as a symbol of that acceptance and willingness to follow God's calling in their lives.
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EDIT
OH and what it mean that we are joint heirs with Christ Jesus.
Reply:you can have some lessons that focus on sexual purity and the characteristics of a virtuous woman.
also, let them know that they can serve the kingdom so much more than they can imagine!
reaching out to their lost friends, living a holy life, asking God to fulfill their dreams of becoming an evangelist, doctor, lawyer, etc.
let them shift their focus from themselves, to God.
edit: yup, plus the anointing part. and pastors praying for them, commissioning them.
Womans bible study about being a princess of God. Need some ideas. Anyone have any?
I don't know about princesses, but my first thought was the story of Esther. As a youth pastor, I have done a series on her and can say that there are loads of principles and truths that can be applied young women's lives.
Hope this helps a little!
Reply:Someday my prince will come
You can start out with what it means to be daughter of God. the importance of adoption (ie, once you adopt, you cannot EVER disown your child, and that is what it is like with God.)
What God expects out of His child, and how much He loves us.
You can end with an annointing for all those who have accepted their adoption into the family of God using Rose of Sharon oil on their forehead (you can get into the annointing of David to do God's work) as a symbol of that acceptance and willingness to follow God's calling in their lives.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
EDIT
OH and what it mean that we are joint heirs with Christ Jesus.
Reply:you can have some lessons that focus on sexual purity and the characteristics of a virtuous woman.
also, let them know that they can serve the kingdom so much more than they can imagine!
reaching out to their lost friends, living a holy life, asking God to fulfill their dreams of becoming an evangelist, doctor, lawyer, etc.
let them shift their focus from themselves, to God.
edit: yup, plus the anointing part. and pastors praying for them, commissioning them.
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