Inspired Book Club Facilitation Guide
This discussion guide is designed to help you lead a small group study of Rachel Held Evans Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again.
PDF includes a one-page weekly reflection handout and one-page facilitation script with bonus theological content for each chapter of the book.
This discussion guide is designed to help you lead a small group study of Rachel Held Evans Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again.
PDF includes a one-page weekly reflection handout and one-page facilitation script with bonus theological content for each chapter of the book.
This discussion guide is designed to help you lead a small group study of Rachel Held Evans Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again.
PDF includes a one-page weekly reflection handout and one-page facilitation script with bonus theological content for each chapter of the book.
About Inspired
If the Bible isn’t a science book, instruction manual, or position paper, then what is it? New York Times bestselling author Rachel Held Evans invites readers on a journey of rediscovery as she explores the magic of the Bible, engaging the old, familiar stories in new ways that honor the past and enlighten the present.
Drawing upon recent scholarship and literary analysis, Evans creatively retells our favorite Bible stories, explaining their contexts and possible interpretations, and then connects these ancient stories to our present-day ones. Using her well-honed literary instincts and experience in both evangelical and mainline Protestant traditions, Evans discovers a way of understanding that avoids noncommittal liberalism on one hand and strident literalism on the other.
Readers are invited to fall in love with Scripture all over again without checking their intellect--or their imaginations--at the door.
About the Study
Each study begins with a pre-work page with a guiding quote and space for note taking. Weekly curriculum include a space for community check-ins, a designated reading from the text to be read alound in the place of biblical passages, headings to guide a review of the weekly reading, and questions that will help us engage with this text on a more personal, and hopefully, impactful level.
This study is meant to help you facilitate dicussion in your community and works best when we all engage in the work of teaching and learning. we recommend taking one chapter at a time. Participants are encouraged to incorporate a practice of journaling while reading.
Some of the ideas in this study may be new, but others may fit into our existing theological understanding and worldview. Each session in this guide contains a theological concept that relates to the weekly topuc, This is additional, extra-credit content that is provided to be included if time permits—it is not a necessary component of the study.