Bible Study Worksheets
Posted: July 3rd, 2009 | Author: david | Filed under: Bible Study, christ and culture | 1 Comment »
Bible study worksheets are a great way to get people involved in a Bible study.
For one, good Bible study worksheets help the members of the Bible study retain what they’ve learned. It’s almost cliche to say that different people learn in different ways. Some people are visual learners while others learn by doing. Sometimes people learn by hearing. Many Bible studies are only vocal exercises- where people talk about the topic. This can easily exclude members of the Bible studies who do not learn by hearing. Worksheets can help overcome this limitation by giving people something to look at while they are listening to the discussion. Worksheets also give people something to do while they listen to the discussion.
Another reason Bible study worksheets help is because it keeps the group on topic. Have you ever been to a Bible study where the group- or a particularly dominant member- kept dragging the group on topic. Worksheets can help prevent such frustrating distractions by giving the leader something to appeal to in order to get the Bible study back on track- even if it is a simple statement like, “What does the next question on the worksheet ask?”
Sometimes worksheets can make a Bible study seem more like a class. A poor way of using a Bible study worksheet is to approach it as a list of tasks to be accomplished. A good Bible study leader can take the worksheet and use it to foster discussion. With confidence the leader can use the worksheet as a tool to learn, even diverging from the exact questions of the worksheet as the group’s productive discussion moves in another direction.
Because Bible study worksheets can be a great tool for those who are teaching a Bible study, I have written the Christ and Culture Survey into a worksheet. In it the group will answer some questions about how they feel about Christ and culture and the survey will place them into one of Niebuhr’s five categories. After reading what the worksheet says about these five categories, the Bible study worksheet contains a few discussion questions.
I have lead this Bible study with adults and youth. It is appropriate for both men and as a women’s Bible study. In fact, the more diverse the group of people, the more everyone will get out of this Bible study.
You can take the online version of the Christ and Culture Survey to see where you might fit into Niebuhr’s categories, as a sample of the contents of this Bible study.
You can purchase this Bible study using PayPal.
This bible study worksheet seems like it could be a very useful thing when studying the bible, as long as it was incorporated with great reading, great study, and great discussion. I actually just signed up for an Old Testament study group. We have some outside sources and some tests, but the thing we will most be learning from is the actually reading with question and discussion. And we will learn from the Holy Spirit.