{"id":3514,"date":"2014-03-16T17:55:07","date_gmt":"2014-03-16T21:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/warrenmyers.com\/blog\/?p=487"},"modified":"2014-03-16T17:55:07","modified_gmt":"2014-03-16T21:55:07","slug":"designing-a-bible-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=3514","title":{"rendered":"designing a Bible study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I browse the shelves at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.familychristian.com\/church-resources\/bible-studies.html\">Family Christian<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifeway.com\/n\/Bible-Study\">Lifeway<\/a>, or even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/u\/bibles-bible-studies-prayer-books\/379003368\">Barnes &amp; Noble<\/a>, I see various and sundry Bible studies by all kinds of authors: for the ladies, {{Kay Arthur}}, {{Beth Moore}}, &amp; {{Priscilla Shirer}}; for the gents (or coed), there&#8217;s {{John MacArthur}}, {{David Platt}}, {{Dr David Jeremiah}}, and many many more.<\/p>\n<p>What I&#8217;ve often wondered, though, is just\u00a0<em>how<\/em> these studies end up being &#8220;designed&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>For the small men&#8217;s Bible study <a href=\"http:\/\/warrenmyers.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/we-finished-matthew\">group<\/a> I have been a part of for the last couple years, we take a &#8220;Spirit will lead&#8221; approach: we choose a book of the {{Bible}} (started with Matthew; are now on <a href=\"http:\/\/warrenmyers.com\/blog\/tag\/daniel\">Daniel<\/a>), and then meet regularly to read the Word, discuss- and tease-out truth, application, and connections, and advance at a pace dictated not by some external, artificial structure, but at the rate at which we advance (we&#8217;ve taken to calling ourselves the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/warrenmyers.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/studying-matthew\">Elmer Fudd study group<\/a>&#8221; for all our rabbit trails).<\/p>\n<p>But the way my men&#8217;s group studies is not really &#8220;reproducible&#8221; in the sense of being able to build a guide, or passage-by-passage questionnaire through a book of the Bible.<\/p>\n<p>My question remains: how can I &#8220;design&#8221; a {{Bible study}} for myself and others which not only covers ground intended, but allows for \/ encourages the Spirit to work in the participants&#8217; (and leaders&#8217;) hearts to apply what is being learned to their lives?<\/p>\n<p>I appreciate any and all feedback!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I browse the shelves at Family Christian, Lifeway, or even Barnes &amp; Noble, I see various and sundry Bible studies by all kinds of authors: for the ladies, {{Kay Arthur}}, {{Beth Moore}}, &amp; {{Priscilla Shirer}}; for the gents (or coed), there&#8217;s {{John MacArthur}}, {{David Platt}}, {{Dr David Jeremiah}}, and many many more. What I&#8217;ve &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=3514\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">designing a Bible study<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[880,883],"tags":[894,895,147,908,390,964,965,967],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-3514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meanderings","category-study","tag-bible","tag-bible-study","tag-book","tag-discipleship","tag-how-to","tag-study-2","tag-studyguide","tag-tools"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3514"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=3514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}