The Word: Benefits of the Bible
Reminder: What’s your application from last time?
Topic #2: Your Relationship to the Word of God Assignment Sheet
Key passage (for inductive and memorization): II Tim 3:16-17
Study Questions:
- What does the Word of God do for us? (Look at supplemental verses—categorizing them may help) What are its benefits?
- Define(use concordance, dictionary, lexicon) teaching, rebuking, correcting & training.
- How does the Word become part of our life? Do you know of, or can you create, an illustration that demonstrates this?
- What is a good pattern for a devotional life? (2 Tim 2:15, 3:16-17) Is there only one interpretation of each passage in Scripture?
- Is the Bible reliable? How would you explain that to a non-believer? (List ways you can think of or have learned to prove your points).
- List the basic steps you go through in your quiet time.
- What relationship do you see between II Tim 3:16-17 and Ephesians 2:8-10
Supplemental Verses:
Deut 17:16-19 (compare with 1 Kings 10:27-11:6)
Psa 119:9-11
Psa 119:105
Psa 1
Prov 22:17-21
Matt 4:4
Joshua 1:8
John 1:14
John 6:63
John 8:31-32
John 15:7
John 17:17
John 20:31
1Pet 1:23
I Pet 2:2
II Pet 1:3-4
Jeremiah 15:16
Col 3:16
Acts 20:32
II Tim 2:15
James 1:17-18
James 1:21
What is something you may want apply to your life from this lesson? (You may change it after our discussion.)