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How to Lead a Bible Study (8 tips for leading a healthy, multiplying small group Bible study)
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okay step I have led Bible studies for
over 20 years and I would love to tell
you some of the things that God has
shown me through my failures and through
the wisdom of others and just by coming
through because he's a good guy so let
me tell you there is eight helpful tips
that I want to share with you for how to
lead a Bible study alright the first one
is you have to start dependent on God
all right you have to start in a place
that says God I cannot do this on my own
would you fill me with your spirit and
do this through me there's a great video
on my channel called living the spirit
filled life that that will accept on
what that's like but number one start
dependent on the Lord alright number two
is you scripture alright we don't want
to just use book studies that are like
kind of have some scripture involved in
entwined but we really want to be based
on Scripture so some good examples
depending on the group that you have say
if you have a group of people who are
very new who don't know a bunch about
Jesus new Christians I really would
recommend the who is this Jesus it's put
out by Cru press and you can order at
the CRU store it's amazing it goes
through the life of Jesus and his
parables his teaching his death and it
basically just shows about how he can't
be a good person he really was God um
well he was a good person but he was God
he can't be only a good person that is
really good another really great studies
that I encourage our radical you know
the book radical it really stays focus
on the mission um there is a small group
discussion guide that goes along with
that book heaven by randy Alcorn will
give people a bigger vision of living
for eternity seeking Him this has
homework actually all of these have
homework throughout the week I'm seeking
him by Nancy Lee Dumas it's also really
good so those are ones I recommend at
missional women we do ones for every
book of the Bible alright we're not
quite there yet but we have many of them
so judges Romans Galatians and I love
doing Bible studies this way because
basically
what you do and actually my most
favorite one to do in a group was judges
because you read it together you read
one chapter a week together and then you
take a few minutes to just jot it down
you come back together and share your
insights and it is so cool to see the
different things that God shared with
different people and the things that
apply to different people's lives when
you read the same exact thing it's
awesome so I really recommend eight
these I'll put a link below but you can
get them at the Mishnah women.com
store there uh another thing that is
also really helpful for doing a book
study through a book of the Bible is
this the complete Bible discussion guide
so if you're not gonna do any of these
which I do recommend just using
Scripture it's really God it's God's
Word it's the most important words
so using these journals or this right
here goes through the New Testament and
it has I'm not sure if you can see that
as questions to help you observe what's
going on to help you see what's going on
in the passage to help you apply it
so both the journals and this are really
great for studying a book of the Bible
also this is my newly published Bible
study so I just you but it goes through
women of the Bible especially those ones
you don't know a ton about and it's very
high in application no study no homework
during the week you would just read it
together
and then you would answer these
questions in your group discussion which
it really gets to seeing the heart of
God and his character and then also
being able to apply that to our life so
um start off dependent on God go to
Scripture go to God's Word the third one
is creating an environment of openness
this is a huge need because the greatest
need of mankind is to love and to be
loved and to feel worthwhile to self and
others and if we're not known we can't
be loved so you really want to create an
atmosphere that's going to help people
to get to know each other um that God's
Word is the most important thing but
it's not the only thing there's other
things that are super important you
could do you could do this in ways of
just letting one person share their
testimony
the beginning of your study each week
and rotate that way or you could have
people share the five H's which are
hero's heritage highlights hopes and
hardships so just take one thing all
right share your heroes this week all
right
next the next week share your heritage
what is your what's your background like
spiritually and also your family or you
could use these these are the reveal
cards and they are intended for helping
people get to know each other better
there is questions already built-in for
small group discussions they can also be
used to help you share your testimony
but they're right here so you could just
ask yourself a question
a recent way that guides came through
for you you spread these down on the
table and you can um just share about
pick one and then share that you can ask
the group if you have a large group you
can submit in the smaller groups or you
can just limit people to say two minutes
it is super important for people to be
able to share who they are and to draw
that out of other people because that's
where growth is going to happen all
right
so the third one foster an environment
of openness so asking people to share
and then you also need to be open and I
lead the way and vulnerable foreigner
ability in that way all right fourth one
is encourage application all right god
wants us to not be merely hearers of the
word but he wants it to think in and us
to be able to act on it so really asking
the following week hey how did it go
last week on the things that you are
trusting good god for about really
bringing it back to applying God's Word
all right the fifth one is fostering an
environment that clings to Jesus's
perspective Jesus is perfection rather
than our own all right we got a model
the fact that it's it's a surrender that
God wants not perfection that we are
never called to be never mess up people
because we can't do that but we are
called to continually live a life of
repentance and surrender dependent on
Jesus right number six is planned for
multiplication all right you don't want
your group just to stay the same all
right you want your group to grow you
want the people in your group to be able
to multiply and make this
sciples right so that would take
connecting with people in your group
sometime during the week if that's
getting together with them if that's
shooting them text depending on how much
time you have seen what you could pray
for but the people that our faith will
use that acronym faithful available
initiative takers teachable and have a
heart for God those are going to be the
next leaders and you want to invest in
them you want to pour into them you want
to help them connect with God and point
them to Jesus because Jesus is going to
develop them and help them become
multipliers so invest with them
number seven is help your group be
outward focused
alright this it takes intentionality we
don't naturally just serve God if there
are so many barriers on comfort and
convenience so we really just need to be
taking the initiative to serve as a
group it doesn't have to be every week
but you can think like me and we want to
serve as in Operation Christmas Child we
want to start all year and be building
packages that we would be able to
support that ministry or we want to at
Christmas time put on something for
single moms and I'm change widow's oil
in their car or something that you can
think about as a group to serve together
and number eight which is my favorite
and often the most neglected is vision
and training all right we want to cache
vision vision leaks so we want to
continually be casting vision for people
about living out the Great Commission
all right you can do that with different
books alright more than a carpenter this
is an apologetics type of book but it
just little excerpts orb radical like I
mentioned little excerpts from this the
finisher is amazing if you haven't read
it so you could just read it and share
different highlights or different things
that stand out and and it's not about me
so just pull out books that help you
live on mission and keep focused on the
Great Commission and share excerpts you
could also use I saw this as a huge need
of not having vision and training for
the Great Commission in Bible studies so
I developed something called the connect
cards and
they have all the questions lined out
for you in different topics so each week
you could just
there's connect with God ones and but
there is awesome connect to the mission
so each week it's just a tiny little
element of 10 to 15 minutes you add to
your group time that will help train
people on how to live out the Great
Commission how to get in the gospel
conversations and how to start spiritual
conversations and get to the gospel and
things like that so these I'll put in
the description or below but you can
also find it the mission women's doors
those are eight tips that help you lead
a great Bible City we'll take your Bible
study from a good Bible study to a great
multiplying living on mission for the
glory of God Bible study alright if you
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