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:

  1. What does the Word of God do for us? (Look at supplemental verses—categorizing them may help) What are its benefits?
  2. Define(use concordance, dictionary, lexicon) teaching, rebuking, correcting & training.
  3. How does the Word become part of our life? Do you know of, or can you create, an illustration that demonstrates this?
  4. 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?
  5. 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).
  6. List the basic steps you go through in your quiet time.
  7. 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.)