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| How to Study Your Bible Online Inductive Bible Study | Week 8 Posted: 17 May 2015 08:25 PM PDT Welcome back to our online Inductive Bible study at the Women's Bible Café. Beginning this week and through the remainder of our study time together, we will look at the last component part of Inductive Bible study…Application. Application answers the questions:
Not only must we be hearers of the Word, we must also be doers of the Word. This is why application is the most important component of Inductive Bible study or else our Bible study has been in vain. Kay Arthur writes: “No matter how much you know about God’s Word, if you don’t apply what you learn, Scripture will never benefit your life.” This week we will also learn how to analyze a long passage of Scripture by outlining the main important facts. When I was in high school and college, I recall outlining my history lessons to prepare for an exam. Outlining the chapters helped me to focus on the main important facts so I could recall those facts once I took the exam. Likewise, outlining the Chapters in a book of the Bible is a visual method to help you identify and organize the main points of Scripture. Our daily reading lessons this week includes:
ASSIGNMENT FOR THE WEEK:
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS FOR THIS WEEK (answer in your small group or post your answers here): Review your observations of Colossians and answer the following questions:
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| Experiencing God Online Bible Study | Week 8 Posted: 17 May 2015 08:24 PM PDT Welcome back to online Bible study at Women's Bible Café! This week we are discussing Unit 8 of Experiencing God by Henry and Richard Blackaby – "Adjusting Your Life to God.” This topic is both fascinating and scary, isn't it?! Our daily lessons this week included the following topics: It is one thing to think that we want to be obedient to God and another to actually do it. Obedience has a price and that price is adjustment of our lives to accommodate what God wants to do through us. That sounds exciting – and often it is – but obedience can also be costly and painful. The adjustments God asks us to make in order to follow Him in obedience may be painful to us and to others around us. So how do we prepare ourselves for that? Our memory verse for the week gives us a clue: Well, that sounds just great doesn't it? Give up EVERYTHING??? As in all of it, every little bit? Yes. Potentially, everything. Adjustments prepare us for obedience. They put us in a position to obey the Lord. Adjusting one's life to God is well worth the cost. (p. 156-157) As Reality Six says "You must make major adjustments in your life to join God in what He is doing." It is tempting to think that God won't ask ME to make major adjustments… but Scripture tells us that He can and He will – so be prepared! God is likely to ask you to make adjustments in one or more of these areas: Adjustment and obedience come at a price. God can interrupt our plans anytime He wants. We want Him to affirm our plans but in fact He may do just the opposite. Our obedience may come at a cost not only to us personally, but to those around us. Those around you may have to pay a price for your obedience. We see many examples of this in Scripture. We also see that God is faithful not only to us but to those around us – we can trust Him! Finally, we see that obedience requires us to totally depend on God. A major adjustment we must make in order to know and do the will of God is to come to a point of total dependence on God to complete what He wants to do through us. That means giving up our dependence on ourselves and our abilities, our gifts, our talents, our resources, our experiences and depending only on Him. That's a tall order. It's a huge adjustment that is never easy to make. But it can be done! YOUR ASSIGNMENT FOR THE WEEK: BIBLE STUDY TIP FOR THE WEEK: The second half of this study is nothing short of INTENSE! This is where we have to start to apply what we learned in the first half of the course and begin to actually do something. The purpose of this study is to change your life so that you EXPERIENCE GOD in a major way. This will not happen without serious thought and prayer. Your life will not change because you read a book – it will only change because you take to heart what you have read, make the decision to invite God into your life and allow Him to go to work on you. Allow time during the remainder of this study for some major reflection and time alone with God. Let Him speak to you – and listen. Ask Him to stretch you in ways that you never imagined. He will. Then get prepared to make some major adjustments in your life as you respond to Him. This is not simple or easy. It is not likely to happen overnight. But it will happen and it will be worth it. DISCUSSION QUESTIONS FOR THIS WEEK (answer in your small group or post your answers here): These questions may require some thought and preparation. Pray over your answers and ask God to grow your faith in what He can accomplish through you. Ask Him how He wants you to adjust your life to Him. Then be prepared to do it! See you next week! Blessings,
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