REALLIFE STUDY GROUP

“By The Book”

 

ICEBREAKER:  Uncool Rules

What rule in school, home, or on the job did or do you dislike the most?  Curfew, Limited Television & Video games, No snacks before dinner, etc…

 

OUTLINE:

1.    Place the verse, 2. Parse the verse, 3. Paraphrase the verse, 4. Personalize the verse, 5. Pray the verse, 6. Practice the verse, 7. Proclaim the verse

 

TEXT:  Joshua 1:8

 

STUDY GROUP QUESTIONS:

1.      Joshua 1:8 says this Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth.  What is your favorite book beside the Bible?  What is your favorite book in the Bible and why?

2.      How often would you say you consistently read God’s Word?

Regularly, occasionally, seldom, almost never

3.      Joshua1:8 says but you shall meditate on it (God’s Word)

         day and night.  What does it mean to meditate on God’s

         Word?       

4.      If you as a group were to paraphrase & personalize Joshua 1:8

Into contemporary language how would you say it?

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5.      Joshua 1:8 says to do all that is written therein.  What is the

most difficult thing to obey in God’s Word?

6.      When you’re playing sports the referee makes the call when a

rule is broken. In what area of your life would you say the enemy has tried to gain an unfair advantage either now or in the past?

    7.  How do you define success?