Before We Get Started... What am I getting into?
Topic: Introduction
General Intoduction to the Bible Study:Open your Bible to Acts 16:6-40 and Philippians 1-4. In this study we are wanting to orient ourselves with perspectives regarding Paul and Philippians. In researching these questions and collecting these observations we can better relate with Paul as a writer and later on in our study develop a more biblical approach to handling various pressures in our own lives and in the lives of those around us. As we read through the above passages we will be researching the following questions. We will be looking at one question per session.
During our time together we will facilitate this investigation by breaking up into groups of 3-4 and each take a section of verses. You will then research these passages for 5-10 minutes and write down as many observations as you can find to share when you get back together as a large group.
Over the weeks we will be investigating the following perspectives about Paul and Philippians:
- What are the pressures Paul faced?
- How do I tend to react to such pressures?
- What were the "positive" parts of Paul's situation?
- How do we tend to react to good things?
- How might these instinctive problematic reactions affect the situation?
- How did Paul respond, and what did he command us to do?
- What good effects did Paul have on his situation?
- What motives tend to rul the human heart?
- What do we see and hear about what God is like?
- How was Paul's life determined by faith?
- How does "repentance and faith" work?
- What is practical theology? How does what you have learned impact your practical theology?
- What situations are you facing right now? How is God leading you to respond to these siutations?
- What situations are others around you facing right now?How is God leading you to respond to these siutations?