Bible study plan

Community Development

Eleven studies that walk the whole story — a good world, what broke it, and the new creation — and land on the community God is building now.

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Eleven studies that walk the whole story — a good world, what broke it, and the new creation God has promised — and land on the community he is building now. It starts where every community starts, with a place that was made good and is visibly not what it was, and follows Jesus through compassion, enemy-love, the cross and the resurrection into the life the first believers actually shared. For community leaders and established groups who want the work of development rooted in something deeper than a project.

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  1. 1

    God made a good world

    Long

    Genesis 1:1-2:2

  2. 2

    What broke

    Long

    Genesis 3:1-24

  3. 3

    All things new

    Long

    Revelation 21

  4. 4

    Jesus stops for the ones nobody counts

    Long

    Mark 5:21-43

  5. 5

    Love your enemies

    Standard

    Matthew 5:43-48

  6. 6

    Judge with right judgement

    Long

    John 7:1-24Colossians 1

  7. 7

    The cross

    Long

    Mark 15:1-47

  8. 8

    The road to Emmaus

    Long

    Luke 24:3-35

  9. 9

    They had everything in common

    Standard

    Acts 2:42-47

  10. 10

    No one among them was in need

    Standard

    Acts 4:32-37

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    Clothed in the new self

    Long

    Colossians 3:1-17

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How to use a Bible study plan

Read one passage at a time together and ask a few simple questions: What does this tell us about God? About people? What will you obey this week, and who will you share it with? Simple, repeatable, and easy to pass on.