It’s been my privilege for the past two years to participate in Community Bible Study’s Orange Evening Women’s class where we do an in-depth study of God’s word. Last year our class went through the book of Revelation. I learned more from that study than any other time I’ve read or studied Revelation. This year we’ve been studying the gospel of John.
For many years I was part of the Bible Study Fellowship class that meets in Santa Ana on Monday evening. Those years of study took me from being a relatively new Christian to someone who knew God’s word for myself.
There is nothing like studying the word of God in depth for myself. It’s just me, the Bible and God. I pray for the Holy Spirit to give me understanding. God has revealed Himself to man through the Bible. He tells us who He is. He has revealed His purpose and plan for people and our world. He tells us what went wrong, why our world is so messed up and why I’m so messed up. He offers me hope that it doesn’t have to stay that way.
When I read God’s word, I fall more in love with my heavenly Father and my Savior Jesus Christ who bore the punishment for my sin so that I could be forgiven and set free from sin. Set free from the penalty of sin, the power of sin and one day from the presence of sin.
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I love that you have community for studying the bible, and your love for God just shines out of the words you have written here. Thank you for writing this, sister.
Wish I had the opportunity to do in-depth Bible study with a community of believers. But I have found that as I increase my studying of His Word He unveils more of himself to me.