You Can Do This

A Discovery Bible Study isn’t a lesson and it isn’t a sermon. It’s a way of reading a short piece of the Bible, working out what it says, and then doing something about it. That’s the whole thing.

Here’s the rule that makes it work: nobody explains the story to you. Not a teacher, not a parent, not a video. You read it, and you say what you see. When you aren’t sure whether something you thought of is really in the story, you go back and look — and the passage settles it, not somebody else.

That rule is why you can do this. You are not trying to remember the right answer. You’re looking at a story and saying what is there, and you’re already good at that.

We’re going to use one story the whole way through: Mark 2:1–12. Four friends want to get their friend to Jesus, the house is too full to get in the door, so they climb up and dig through the roof. Read it now — it’s twelve verses and it goes fast.

You read it. You say what you see. That’s it.

Try it: Read Mark 2:1–12 once, right now, before the next chapter. Don’t study it. Just meet it.