Meeting Jesus
WOMEN OF FAITH FROM THE NEW TESTAMENT
by Jenna Kavonic
Meeting Jesus
a good book guide
©Jenna Kavonic/The Good Book Company, 2006.
Reprinted 2009, 2011, 2014
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Contents
Introduction: Good Book Guides
2: Faith That Receives Eternal Life
4: Faith That Transforms Suffering
6: Faith That Listens to Jesus
8: Faith That Shares the Good News
Good Book Guides
Every Bible-study group is different—yours may take place in a church building, in a home or in a cafe, on a train, over a leisurely mid-morning coffee or squashed into a 30-minute lunch break. Your group may include new Christians, mature Christians, non-Christians, mums and tots, students, businessmen or teens. That’s why we’ve designed these Good Book Guides to be flexible for use in many different situations.
Our aim in each session is to uncover the meaning of a passage, and see how it fits into the “big picture” of the Bible. But that can never be the end. We also need to appropriately apply what we have discovered to our lives. Let’s take a look at what is included:
Talkabout: Most groups need to “break the ice” at the beginning of a session, and here’s the question that will do that. It’s designed to get people talking around a subject that will be covered in the course of the Bible study.
Investigate: The Bible text for each session is broken up into manageable chunks, with questions that aim to help you understand what the passage is about. The Leader’s Guide contains guidance for questions, and sometimes additional “follow-up” questions.
Explore more (optional): These questions will help you connect what you have learned to other parts of the Bible, so you can begin to fit it all together like a jig-saw; or occasionally look at a part of the passage that’s not dealt with in detail in the main study.
Apply: As you go through a Bible study, you’ll keep coming across apply sections. These are questions to get the group discussing what the Bible teaching means in practice for you and your church. Getting personal is an opportunity for you to think, ...
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About Meeting Jesus: Women of Faith from the New TestamentThe Gospel records are extraordinary for their accounts of the encounters and conversations Jesus had with women of all kinds. But this wasn’t sexual attraction - these women grew to love Him because He treated them with dignity and compassion. In an age where women were considered second-class citizens, Jesus devoted time and care to them all - the godly, the grieving, the sick, the stressed, the sinful outcasts and even the foreign ‘dogs’. But in all his dealings with women, Jesus wanted to give them the opportunity to hear and receive His good news - that however we live, we all need God’s forgiveness; that whatever we have done, we can be forgiven by God, through Jesus. Women didn’t only experience a welcome from Jesus; they received a brand new life of hope, joy and peace, as forgiven children of God. Worldwide the good news of Jesus still transforms the lives of countless women today. By using this Good Book Guide to examine the encounters of these eight women who met Jesus, you too can learn about His liberating good news, discover what it means to have true faith, and experience His transforming power in your life. |
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