If you were to start a home bible study, for people who are not saved, and know nothing of the bible, which bible study would you recommend?

Thanks.

Hmmm, I might start with reading the book of Mark with them. Some people suggest John, but I find the metaphysical elements at the start of John can throw some people for a curve, so if you do prefer John over Mark, you should start farther into chapter one.

I don't really believe in 'canned' bible studies. You limit the Holy Spirit by using a pre-made curriculum. People are spiritually hungry, and the Word of God is what they need!

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Christiaan

Christian Bible study:
"What would I recommend?"

One lead by two or three brothers that do know something of the Bible, and more importantly the Lord Jesus.


I would recommend a Bible study directed at seekers of truth, not dissenters and opponents of the gospel.



I would recommend a Bible study that was based upon the Elemental foundations of Christian Faith, with no compromise to sin, or humanism. We must turn away from our deeds and sins that breed death, to ourselves and others we influence. We must turn back to God, or we will die.


I would recommend a Bible study that lifted up the Goodness of God, and his love...and his willingness to restore the sinner and sinsick back unto Himself, through the Blood and sacrifice of Jesus...and the only Resurrection of God himself, back to Heaven, in His bodily ascension.



I would recommend a Bible study that declared the Whole counsel of God, and especially that Jesus is the One and only Path to the Father Creator. Every other way, is a lie, and will destroy you.



I would recommend a Bible study that declared that the Christian walk is a hard one, and demands that we die to ourselves, and live our lives forever as such, as we learn to love God, and his family....our neighbor as ourselves. I would make sure that Baptism in water was acted upon, on those who believed this.


I would make sure to emphasize that it was not a social event, a club, or a fellowship time alone, but a gathering to honor the Lord alone, and to bend unto his loving presence.



Otherwise, my counsel to you is not to do it. It may do more harm than good, both to you, and those you want to be saved.



Your heart seems good, but you may be biting off more than you can chew. Ask God to send help. You need it, it sounds like, and He loves you a bunch. May the lord bless your endeavors to serve Him.

Tom.

If you and those that come have the same intent in studying the Bible, and it is the same as John’s intent in writing (John 20: 30-31), John seems good. This morning John 21: 24-25 seems a good place to start for unbelievers.

Just a thought.

Of course I could be biased in that God revealed Christ to me, [u]Himself as Christ[/u], as I struggled to translate the word logos, (in John 1:1), into English, in such a way as to give “the thing itself” (consistent with a Greek view of words and all they can communicate). Much happened. With out knowing what it all meant I even said, “I believe this name, this logos, this Word." It was Joy upon Joy, much later, when He explained John 1:12-13.

Of course we know that whatever book of the Bible He leads you to begin with, He is able to add in just what is needful for each individual. He desires to. It pleases Him. Watch for and follow that.

Just to be clear, I do not recommend any “Bible study”, for unbelievers, only the study of the Bible, book by book. It helps to start off right. Great damage can be done by swallowing food someone else has chewed.

there is a tool that some missionaries use when they reach and teach the lost its called :
firm foundations: from New tribe Missions., it goes thru the bible in order, and so we see the unfolding of redemption by God thru Christ, about 50 lessons
http://www.ntmbooks.com/index.jsp?categoryid=3
love andy

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John is a wonderful book to use for the unsaved. I would use John along with 1 Thessalonians. Even the first verse in both John and Thess, has so much in it you could teach on it for years and not exhaust the truth of God. The 2nd and 3rd chapters of Thess, give us a pure outline of showing the unbeliever the love of God in our presenting the Gospel with no gain for self entering in.

I know this is a monster when separating the old from the new. But, God appointed Paul for a specific reason. That the Body of Christ the Church might learn what the Gospel for the Church is through Paul which is the final Gospel to fulfill the Word of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

John has much of the transition from the old to the new and is full of Love and the Holy Spirit, especially in 14,15,16,17 which gives the believer understanding of what the difference of the Spirit of Christ and the Holy Spirit and their work in the believers spirit, soul-mind and body that they might come to the full knowledge of how God works in the believer.

The Spirit of Christ who gives us life, the Holy Spirit who gives understanding, and the quickening of the body to contain the fulness of God the Father, who also comes to make His abode with us.

Then I would go to Galatians, Colossians, and the central Pinnacle of Grace and Faith and Truth, Ephesians.

The purpose of Christ and His whole reason for the Cross is in this 1/5 of the scriptures for the Body of Christ, which is for the Church the Body of Christ. 1/5, which explains the whole of the 4/5 of the rest of the Word of God, which is the Christ of the Cross and Christ in you the Hope of Glory.

This does not negate the whole bible being the whole Word of God, it just gives the new believer the fulness of salvation in Christ Jesus and their responsibility in His Church.

In Christ: Phillip

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by enid on 2008/7/29 9:20:01

If you were to start a home bible study, for people who are not saved, and know nothing of the bible, which bible study would you recommend?

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This is a clip from Paul Washer sharing how to witness to non-believers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt9V4Q5n9gs

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