Let's Say bye-bye to Self-help & Let's Get equipped this Summer Ladies!
For the sake of the Gospel... It's time to dig beyond the surface and fill up your toolbox! Women of ALL AGES are invited to join us this July at OBC for a Bible Study Workshop with Pastor Andrew! We'll spend time learning and stregthening our Bible Study muscles with tools and methods that ground us in God's Word-- moving from text to meaning to application. Whether you're 9 or 99, daughters, mothers, grandmas, nieces, and friends are a gift to the Bride of Christ! Let's make the most of our time and minds in knowing Him rightly together!
Why is it important for women to deeply study scripture?
As women, we are naturally inclined to read Scripture and immediately jump to application, often times missing the important details of genre, historical context, and author's intent. This Summer, we'll walk through a more wholeistic approach to studying the Living Word for:
GODMatthew 22 offers the "greatest" commandment from Jesus: "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind." There is no context in the life of a follower of Jesus where we check our minds at the door. We are to engage them and learn with them and use them not as an end in and of itself but as an act of worship and Godward affection. John Piper writes, "Our thinking should be wholly engaged to do all it can to awaken and express the heartfelt fullness of treasuring God above all else." This means that the first and foremost reason for learning to study the Bible is that you cannot love God if you do not know God. With full access to the revelation of God, we study with tools, resources and techniques to know him more pouring more fuel onto the fire of worship!
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OTHERS
Women are a large proportion of the makeup of the body of Christ, not just in any given local church, but globally! This means that for the church to take seriously the words of Jesus in Matthew 28, "Teaching them to observe all I have commanded you," women in particular must give themselves to learning that which Jesus commanded. It is not only an act of worship, but it overflows into biblical, practical, and effective discipleship of the body of Christ. Women equipped with tools and techniques for studying the entire Scripture helps guard the bride of Christ against false teaching and doctrine (Eph. 4:14). It is only the word of God that transforms and matures a believer. Imagine the depth of conversation in Women's Bible Studies when women are actually studying the Bible!
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YOURSELFWhen Paul writes in 2 Timothy 2:15, "Be diligent to present yourself approved to God a workman that does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth," he was applying a principle of scripture study to all those who follow Jesus. Studying hermeneutics (Bible study methods) challenges you to think about the author's intent, literary genre, and historical background. The Bible is far from a self-help book. Rightly understood, you'll find the Bible to truly be a double-edged sword, where your heart is shaped and chiseled into the image of Christ! If you, as a woman, desire to be formed into the image of the Son (Romans 8:29), right Bible Study is the ship that carries you to that destination!
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Let us know you're coming by June 23rd!
If you have any questions, email Andrew Belcher at [email protected].