Learning from the Word

This week's lesson we talked about discipleship in the Word (the Bible) and how we learn about God through our favorite verses.

Katlyn led the lesson and shared with us her favorite verse. This version is from The Message, a variation of the Bible (like NIV, or King James, etc).

Watch what God does, then you do it, like children who learn proper behavior from their parents. Mostly what God does is love you. Keep company with him and learn a life of love. Observe how Christ loved us. His love was not cautious but extravagant. He didn’t love in order to get something from us but to give everything of himself to us. Love like that. Ephesians 5:1-2

Then we asked ourselves 3 questions about this passage.

1. Why do I like this passage? What’s the most important part?
2. What does this passage say about God?
3. What does it say about how we should live?

While discussing these questions, we discovered that God loves us so much that He gave us everything of Himself. We are to love the way God loves us, giving everything of ourselves.

From there we split up into small groups and talked about our favorite verses, then asked ourselves the same 3 questions about our favorites.

In my group, we talked about John 10:11 and Isaiah 40:26. What are some of your favorite verses? How would you answer the 3 questions about those verses?