A new inductive Bible study discussion group has started during the second hour (10:45-12:00) at South Fellowship.  We are going through the letters that Peter wrote to Christians scattered around what is now Turkey.  Then, as now, this was a difficult area in which to practice the Christian faith.  While few of us face the degree of hardships experienced in that region, Peter’s insights can help us understand what God might be doing through our own difficulties.

This new group will be small (we are meeting in the Conference Room) and short (a chapter a week for eight weeks to get through Peter’s letters).  If you have not been in this kind of group before, this will be a great introduction to methodical, inductive study of Scripture.

Our past discussion groups have been lively and challenging.  Regardless of your experiences in Bible study groups, you will find this study an opportunity to explore the Biblical text for yourself and then to compare your discoveries with other explorers.

The goal of our time is summarized by an eighteenth-century theologian:

Read nothing into the Scriptures, but draw everything from them,
and suffer nothing to remain hidden that is really in them.
J.A. Bengel (1687-1752)

I hope you will join us at 10:45 in the Conference Room this Sunday.