Connect What is one one that you could grow this week in your practice of celebration?

Warm-Up

1. When have you found reading the Bible difficult? When have you found reading the Bible easy?
2. How would you currently describe your relationship with the Bible?

Read 2 Timothy 3:12-17

3. What is the situation facing Timothy? Who are the people who threaten God’s people?
4. What does Paul remind Timothy to continue in? Why? 
5. Why is Paul likely referring to the Old Testament as “all Scripture”? Why is what he says also relevant to the New Testament? 
6. How is the Bible distinctive to any other book? What is different about its author and authority?
7. What does “God-breathed” mean? What might this be alluding to? How is this different from modern ideas of “inspired”? 
8. In what ways does God work in and through the Bible? 
9. How have you seen God work in and through the Bible in your own life? 
10. What are the four things Paul says Scripture is useful for? How do they relate to both knowledge and how we live? Is this list exhaustive?
11. What is one thing that you have recently learned from the Bible about God? 
12. What is one aspect of your living that has been corrected or challenged by God’s Word? 
13. Why are we not going to instantly understand everything in the Bible? Who and what helps us?
14. How do you think reading God’s Word is related to growing in love for the Lord? 
15. What have you found most helpful in reading the Bible? 

Read Luke 24:13-32

16. What does Jesus explain to the disciples about Scripture?
17. How does all Scripture point to and is fulfilled in Jesus? 
18. Why is study not just about acquiring knowledge? How is Scripture accessible to all people?
19. What is your current practice of reading and studying the Bible? How is that shaped by time, place, pattern, and prayer? 

Apply How would you like to grow in studying God’s Word?

On Your Frontline this Week

Who on your frontline can you pray for each day, that they would come to know Jesus? Maybe commit to praying for them throughout Lent.

For Families

• Download: some of the family resources to use at home: stbartskids.org

Listen, Watch, and Read

• Listen (Sermon): “The Christian Life” by Aneirin Glyn:
  https://www.st-helens.org.uk/resources/talk/57110/audio/ 
• Listen (Sermon): “Loving God 24/7” by Jill Firth:
  https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/ridley-chapel/id1555186843?i=1000654378042 
• Listen (Sermon): “A Question of Love” by Rico Tice:
  https://www.allsouls.org/Media/AllMedia.aspx?show_media=50963&show_file=59564 
• Read (Article): “A Preposterous Command” by LICC:
  https://licc.org.uk/resources/a-preposterous-command-part-1/ 
• Watch (Video): “Agape/Love” by Bible Project:
  https://bibleproject.com/explore/video/agape-love/ 

Series Resources

• Read (book): “Celebration of Discipline” by Richard J. Foster
• Read (book): “Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life" by Donald S. Whitney 📚
• Read (book): “Spiritual Disciplines Handbook" by Adele Ahlberg Calhoun 📚
• Read (book): “Reading the Bible for all  its Worth" by Gordon Fee & Douglas Stuart 📚
• Read (book): “Prayer: Experiencing Awe & Intimacy with God " by Tim Keller 📚
• Read (article): “Spiritual Disciplines, Legalism and Laziness” by Trevin Wax:
  https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/trevin-wax/why-spiritual-disciples-interview-with-don-whitney/  

📚 Available to borrow in the Church library