Couples Bible Study

[bigat]

Do you guys, and gals, do Bible studies togather?  What do you do?  What do you use?  I find it hard to do. We've looked at books but to be honest most of them are too....fluffy?  if that is the right word.  Just wondering. 

 

I'll be in my corner.

 

[mixaleena]

We have had the same problem about not being able to find a study that can keep us both. We actually just join small group studies at our church or with a couple other members...
We just recently started to read a chapter or two of the bible a night together, and it has proved to be great...He reads a chap from the OT and I read from the NT ...it has sparked some conversations that a study couldn't. Especially because reading aloud you hear things that you may have otherwise missed while reading to yourself.
Maybe that would work for you? Just a thought.

 

[chriso]

Quiet time with the Lord is very important. Also a bible study with your spouse is also important. It can be many different ways. Read and study your sunday school lesson, take different books of the bible and study them and read the comentary. Take a home study course. Just be sure to set aside time to do this it will become a very special time.

 

[katelyn]

Our church is going through The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren right now, so my husband and I are doing that together for our devotion right now. Previously we did Night Light by James and Shirley Dobson. We really enjoyed that one and made it the whole way through.

Since then, it has been harder for us to find a good couple's devotional to work through. When we don't have a devotional to go through together, we will just pick out a Christian book we both want to read and work through it together. (Example book: Why Marriages Succeed or Fail by Dr. John Gottman.) It's not an ideal solution but it keeps us working together to draw closer to God and improve our marriage.

 

[jessiegirl]

Last year I attended a bible study group called BSF (Bible Study Fellowship). My husbad is not a Christian, so he didn't want to go. In fact, it was taking these classes that I became a Christian. They have classes all over the country. What I liked about this class was, for example, the women went on Wednesdays, the men went on Tuesday evenings. I think there might have been a husband/wife night. And they had classes for the children as well. Last year we studied the gospel of John. Each group all studies the same subject. Infact, they study the same subject nation wide. So if you were to visit in another state, you could go to BSF and they would all be studying the same thing. You are given notes each week as well as questions that really make you think. The following week there is a lecture to discuss the questions from the previous week. What I thought was great about this was the entire family was studying the same thing and it is something the whole family could discuss together.

 

[Peter]

My wife and I meet every morning to pray the Psalms together. We've done this for two years now. 8 Psalms a day M-F and you go through the entire book in a month. (Leave one day for 119 by itself) Some times we discuss some thing about one of the Psalms. Some times not.

We are quite avid readers too. So quite often we will bounce ideas and thoughts off each other based on our reading. (BTW, she's Protestant, I'm Orthodox, a convert) She will often read something and ask me what the Orthodox response would be.

Bible study is a must for every believer. However, I would advise you the same as C.S. Lewis did, for every modern author you read, read an author that spoke on the same subject but lived, say, 100 years ago. (For me, it's 1600-1900 years ago! lol)

Hope this helps.

Peace.

Peter

 

[footballfanatic]

Joe Beam's book, "Becoming One: Emotionally, Spiritually, and Sexually" is a great Bible Study for couples.