Borrow Before You Build: The Proven Lists

A tour of the ready-made lists and the one question that picks between them.

You never have to start from a blank page. There are proven lists, each built for a kind of person:

Progressive Evangelism (12) — the bookmark list; scales from one study to twelve.
The Whole Story: Creation to Jesus (15) — walking through the whole story of God.
Stories of Hope (9) — hurting people.
The Commands of Christ (10) — new believers.
Identity in Christ (5) — maturing believers.
Felt-need packs — Courage, Love, Obedience, Peace (8 each).
Whole-book studies (Mark, Acts, Philippians, John) — established groups.

Choosing between them comes down to one question:

Who is this group, and where are they starting from?

The full quick-reference table is in the final chapter of this class.

Scripture quotations are from the Open Translation Bible (OTB), used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Practice this chapter

Run a short Discovery Bible Study on this passage — everything this chapter taught, on a real one.