601 B Bible study

MARKETPLACE FACTS

Four Simple Questions to Ask In Leading an Investigative Bible Study Module 601 B Mario Denton

Market place facts: Leading an investigative Bible study

Market place facts: Leading an investigative Bible study

Overall purpose of this series on Marketplace To understand and learn from various marketplace facts so that you can: • Be more effective and anointed wherever you are in the marketplace. • Adapt and benchmark your marketplace practices and principles discussed in this series. • Use these material to facilitate the work of evangelism.

Market place facts: Leading an investigative Bible study

• Four Simple Questions to Ask In Leading an Investigative Bible Study

Market place facts: Leading an investigative Bible study

• With our society moving toward secularism and the so-called postChristian era, increasing numbers of people will find less and less common ground with Jesus Christ.

That being true, asking them to 'accept Christ' will become increasingly meaningless and unrealistic.

Market place facts: Leading an investigative Bible study

Select passages • Select passages that graphically depict the person of Christ. • One passage could be Colossians 1:15-20.

Market place facts: Leading an investigative Bible study

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He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.

Market place facts: Leading an investigative Bible study

Four questions Read over the passage and then ask these four questions:

Market place facts: Leading an investigative Bible study

1) What does it say?

• Most people will read the passage and then look to the leader for the answer.

• Do not allow this luxury. Walk them through the process of digging out the meaning.

• Their realization of the fact that they can discover the meaning of a passage could prove to be life-transforming.

Market place facts: Leading an investigative Bible study

1) What does it say?

• Don’t settle for sloppy freelance interpretation.

• Do your homework ahead of time so that you, in fact, know the intention of the writer as to the meaning of the passage.

Market place facts: Leading an investigative Bible study

2) What questions do you have?

• No question asked is stupid.

Respond to his question(s), by pointing him back to the Scriptures.

• Don’t be afraid to admit you don’t know the answer to a question.

Market place facts: Leading an investigative Bible study

3) What does it mean? • That is what is the relevancy or significance of the passage to our lives? • Or what is the meaning behind the words?

Market place facts: Leading an investigative Bible study

4) How does it connect with your life? • Without seeking for application to our lives, the study may well be an exercise in futility.

Realize that creating an environment of grace where people are free to explore, struggle with truth and share their doubts and honest questions, presents a potent dynamic for people in allowing them to begin the process of discovering or growing in Christ.

Market place facts: Leading an investigative Bible study

4) How does it connect with your life? • Other passages for study could include John 1:1-5; 3:1-8,14-21; 8:111; chapter 9.

Market place facts: Leading an investigative Bible study

Prayer Focus • Father, In the name of Jesus, I surrender myself to walk in the Word in the marketplace. Your word living in me produces the Life in this world.

• The word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. It makes my way plain before me.

• I boldly and confidently say that my heart is fixed and established on the solid foundation – the Living Word of God! Amen Market place facts: Leading an investigative Bible study

Learning, application and commitment: James 1: 22-25 • “Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves.

• Do what it says.

• Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in the mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.

• But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it - he will be blessed in what he does.” (NIV) Market place facts: Leading an investigative Bible study

Learning, application and commitment • One of the principles that I have learned from this lesson was …

• I intend to apply this principle in my market place by: …..

• With the help of the Holy Spirit, I will begin applying this truth immediately.

Market place facts: Leading an investigative Bible study

Jesus said: Take what I have given you and change the world!

Market place facts: Leading an investigative Bible study

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Market place facts: Leading an investigative Bible study

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