Life in Christ Bible Study
Presented by Michael Webb
February 5, 2022

Topic: The Disciples Rejoin Jesus
Scriptures: John 4:27-38

Open It

1. *What must a farmer do in order to enjoy an abundant harvest?
2. When have you ever been so consumed with a task that you forgot to eat?
   

Explore It

1. How did the disciples respond when they saw Jesus talking to the Samaritan woman? (4:27)
2. What did the Samaritan woman do after she had spoken to Jesus? (4:28)
3. What did the Samaritan woman tell the townspeople? (4:29)
4. How did the townspeople respond to what the Samaritan woman said? (4:30)
5. What did the disciples urge Jesus to do? (4:31)
6. *What did Jesus tell the disciples? (4:32)
7. How did the disciples respond to what Jesus told them about food? (4:33)
8. *What did Jesus say was His food? (4:34)
9. What did Jesus say about the fields? (4:35)
10. *What kind of crop did Jesus say “the reaper” was harvesting? (4:36)
11. What did Jesus send the disciples to do? (4:38)

Get It

1. What barriers keep us from talking to other people about Christ?
2. How does spending time talking to Jesus affect your life?
3. *What tasks in life tend to consume your attention?
4. What are some of the sayings of Jesus that surprise you?
5. In what way has God surprised you by what He’s done in your life?
6. What unique work has God given you to do?
7. *How would you describe today the fields Jesus described to His disciples?
8. What role can you play in the reaping and harvesting of lives for Christ?

Apply It

1. What obstacle will you ask God to remove so you can help bring someone to Christ?
2. *In what way can you be involved in reaping and harvesting for God’s kingdom today?

Lesson Scripture:

John 4:27-38 (NKJV)
²⁷  And at this point His disciples came, and they marveled that He talked with a woman; yet no one said, “What do You seek?” or, “Why are You talking with her?”
²⁸  The woman then left her waterpot, went her way into the city, and said to the men,
²⁹  “Come, see a Man who told me all things that I ever did. Could this be the Christ?”
³⁰  Then they went out of the city and came to Him.
³¹  In the meantime His disciples urged Him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.”
³²  But He said to them, “I have food to eat of which you do not know.”
³³  Therefore the disciples said to one another, “Has anyone brought Him anything to eat?”
³⁴  Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work.
³⁵  Do you not say, ‘There are still four months and then comes the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest!
³⁶  And he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.
³⁷  For in this the saying is true: ‘One sows and another reaps.’
³⁸  I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored, and you have entered into their labors.”

Believers Life Style Bible Study
December 11, 2021
The Birth of Jesus and Christmas
Luke 1:26-38, 2:1-7, 2:8-20
Presented by Michael Webb

Open It

1. Why do you and your family celebrate Christmas?
2. What gift did you purchase for Jesus on Christmas?

The Birth of Jesus Foretold

1. Who greeted Mary? Why? (1:26-28)
2. How did Mary learn of her role in Jesus’ birth? (1:26-28)
3. How did Mary feel when the angel appeared to her? (1:29-30)
4. *How did Gabriel describe the child that would be born to Mary? (1:31-33)
5. What title would Jesus have? (1:32)
6. What Old Testament personalities were part of Jesus’ royal line? (1:32-33)
7. Why wasn’t Mary struck dumb by the angel as Zechariah was? (1:34)
8. *How did Mary’s response to the angel differ from Zechariah’s? (1:34, 38)
9. Why did Gabriel mention Elizabeth’s pregnancy to Mary? (1:36-37)
10. What kind of attitude was apparent in Mary’s response to the angel’s visit? (1:38)
11. *What did Mary’s final statement to Gabriel show about her relationship with God? (1:38)

The Birth of Jesus

1. Who decreed that a census be taken of the entire Roman world? (2:1)
2. What historical facts did Luke provide that allow us to approximate the date of Christ’s birth? (2:1-2)
3. What did the Roman census require of everyone? (2:3)
4. *What was the purpose of Joseph and Mary’s trip to Bethlehem? (2:1-4)
5. What reason did Luke give for Joseph having to travel to Bethlehem for the census? (2:4)
6. What did Luke say about Bethlehem which indicates it was a famous place? (2:4)
7. What was Joseph and Mary’s marital status at the time of Jesus’ birth? (2:5)
8. *Why was travel especially difficult for Mary? (2:5)
9. What details about the birth of Jesus do we know or can we infer from Luke’s description? (2:5-7)
10. *What were the conditions in Bethlehem the night Jesus was born? (2:7)

The Shepherds and the Angels

1. At what time and place did the angels appear to the shepherds? (2:8)
2. How many angels did the shepherds see at first? (2:9)
3. How did the shepherds react when they saw the angel? (2:9)
4. To whom did the angel address his good news? (2:10)
5. *What message did the angel tell the shepherds? (2:10, 12)
6. Who did the angel say the newborn child really was? (2:11)
7. *By what symbol or sign were the shepherds supposed to identify the Christ child? (2:12)
8. How many angels did the shepherds hear praising God? (2:13)
9. *What was the immediate reaction of the shepherds after the angels left? (2:15)
10. After finding the Christ child, what did the shepherds do? (2:17-20)
11. What kind of reactions did the shepherds get when they told others what had happened that night? (2:18)
12. How did Mary respond to the shepherds’ visit? (2:19)

Get It

1. If you had been with the shepherds on the night Christ was born, what would you have done after the angels left?
2. In what ways did the shepherds obey God that night?
3. *What should be our response when we discover what God wants us to do?
4. What does it mean that Mary “treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart”?
5. Of what significance is it that the shepherds went back to their flocks?
6. *What is the responsibility of those who “discover” the good news about Jesus?
7. Who needs to be told about the birth and life of Christ?

Apply It

1. In what ways can you renew your enthusiasm for the message of Jesus’ birth?
2. *How can you glorify and praise God with other Christians this week?

Life In Christ Bible Study
November 6, 2021
Freedom From Human Regulations Through Life With Christ
Colossians 2:6-23
Presented by Michael Webb

Open It

1. What good advice have you never forgotten?
2. *In what ways would you characterize yourself as permissive, and in what ways would you characterize yourself as strict?

Explore It

3. How did Paul tell the Colossians to continue in Christ? (2:6-7)
4. What false teaching was Paul concerned about? (2:8)
5. What did Paul affirm about Christ? How? (2:9-10)
6. *What did God give the Colossian believers? (2:10)
7. Why do Gentile Christians have no need to conform to Jewish rules and regulations? (2:11-12)
8. How did the Cross cancel the written code? (2:13-14)
9. From what did Christ deliver us? How? (2:15-17)
10. *How did Paul encourage the Colossians to practice their freedom in Christ? (2:16)
11. How did Christ fulfill what the Old Testament foreshadowed? (2:17)
12. Whom did Paul accuse of trying to rob believers of their spiritual rewards? (2:18)
13. *What were the characteristics of the false teachers? (2:18-19)
14. How did Paul challenge the legalism that had infected the church? (2:20-21)
15. What are the failings of human commands and teachings? (2:20-23)

Get It

1. *What “additions” to faith in Christ have you encountered from teachers in your Christian community?
2. How are you affected by popular religious rules floating around today?
3. What does “fullness in Christ” mean to you?
4. *Paul’s advice kept the Colossians growing in their faith; what Christian leaders have helped you stay on track spiritually?
5. How deep are the roots of your faith?

Apply It

1. *This week, how can you best exercise the freedom you have in Christ?
2. How can you help a Christian friend get rid of his or her false ideas about Christ?

Bible Scripture:

Colossians 2:6-23 (NKJV)
⁶  As you have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him,
⁷  rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.
⁸  Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ.
⁹  For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily;
¹⁰  and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power.
¹¹  In Him you were also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ,
¹²  buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.
¹³  And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses,
¹⁴  having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.
¹⁵  Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.
¹⁶  So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths,
¹⁷  which are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is of Christ.
¹⁸  Let no one cheat you of your reward, taking delight in false humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
¹⁹  and not holding fast to the Head, from whom all the body, nourished and knit together by joints and ligaments, grows with the increase that is from God.
²⁰  Therefore, if you died with Christ from the basic principles of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to regulations–
²¹  “Do not touch, do not taste, do not handle,”
²²  which all concern things which perish with the using–according to the commandments and doctrines of men?
²³  These things indeed have an appearance of wisdom in self-imposed religion, false humility, and neglect of the body, but are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh.

Believers Life Style Bible Study
October 2, 2021
Do Not Love the World
1 John 2:15-17

Presented by Michael Webb

Open It

1. *What makes TV commercials and advertisements so appealing?
2. What sort of promises do TV commercials and advertisements make?
3. Which of these three most clearly motivates the people you know and live near: (1) the drive to meet their physical needs, (2) the drive to get things, or (3) the drive to succeed?

Explore It

4. *What restrictions should we place on our affections? (2:15)
5. What should believers not love? Why? (2:15)
6. What is the result of loving the world? (2:15)
7. Why did John tell us not to love the world? (2:15-17)
8. What are the things of the world? (2:16)
9. How did John categorize the things in the world? (2:16)
10. From where do the things in the world come? (2:16)
11. From where do the things in the world not come? (2:16)
12. *What passes away? (2:17)
13. *Who lives forever? (2:17)

Get It

1. *How do we love the world and the things in it?
2. What things in the world are you tempted to love?
3. What would you categorize as “the cravings of sinful man”?
4. What would you categorize as “the lust of the eyes”?
5. What would you categorize as “the boasting of what he has or does”?
6. *Why are the things and values of the world so enticing to us?
7. What worldly things or values do we substitute for God?
8. What does it mean to do the will of God?
9. How can we guard against adopting the values of the world?
10. From what worldly thing or value do you need to turn in order to pursue your relationship with God?

Apply It

1. *What specific steps will you take in order to find satisfaction in your relationship with God rather than in the things of the world?
2. How will you do the will of God today?

Scripture:

1 John 2:15-17 (NKJV)
¹⁵  Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
¹⁶  For all that is in the world–the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life–is not of the Father but is of the world.
¹⁷  And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.

Believers Life Style Bible Study
September 4, 2021
Walking in the Light
1 John 1:5 – 2:14

Presented by Michael Webb

Open It

1. *Why might it be hard for someone to admit that he or she was wrong about something?
2. About what do we tend to deceive ourselves?
3. When and why might someone need an attorney?

Explore It

1. What message did the writer hear and declare? (1:5)
2. *What inconsistency did John address? (1:6)
3. What results from “walking in the light”? (1:7)
4. *How were some believers apparently deceiving themselves? (1:8)
5. What is the result of confessing one’s sins? (1:9)
6. In what way can a person make God out to be a liar? (1:10)
7. *Why did John write this letter? (2:1)
8. For whom is Jesus an atoning sacrifice? (2:2)
9. What test did John describe for knowing whether or not a person truly knows God? (2:3-6)
10. What did John say he was giving to his readers? (2:7-8)
11. How are claiming to be a Christian and loving one’s fellow Christians related? (2:9-11)
12. Why did John write to “the dear children”? (2:12-13)
13. Why did John write to “the fathers”? (2:13-14)
14. Why did John write to “the young men”? (2:13-14)

Get It

1. What do you think the terms “light” and “darkness” represent?
2. In what way is God similar to light?
3. *In what way do we “walk in darkness”?
4. *How can we “walk in the light”?
5. How does the promise of being purified from all sin make you feel?
6. Why would someone claim that he or she was without sin?
7. What role does the confession of sins play in your daily life?
8. How important is fellowship with other believers to you?
9. In what way is Jesus like our attorney?
10. How can we get to know God better?
11. What does the way in which we treat other believers reveal about us?
12. What confidence does Jesus’ atoning death give to us?
13. What confidence should our relationship with the Father give us?
14. What area of your life do you need to examine in order to see your sins more clearly?
15. How do you need to change the way you relate to fellow believers in order to develop a deeper relationship with God?

Apply It

1. *What steps will you take this week to walk in the light?
2. What will you do to incorporate the confession of sins into your daily routine?

1 John 1:5-2:14 (NKJV)
⁵  This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all.
⁶  If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.
⁷  But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.
⁸  If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
⁹  If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
¹⁰  If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.
¹  My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.
²  And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world.
³  Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments.
⁴  He who says, “I know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
⁵  But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him.
⁶  He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked.
⁷  Brethren, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you heard from the beginning.
⁸  Again, a new commandment I write to you, which thing is true in Him and in you, because the darkness is passing away, and the true light is already shining.
⁹  He who says he is in the light, and hates his brother, is in darkness until now.
¹⁰  He who loves his brother abides in the light, and there is no cause for stumbling in him.
¹¹  But he who hates his brother is in darkness and walks in darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
¹²  I write to you, little children, Because your sins are forgiven you for His name’s sake.
¹³  I write to you, fathers, Because you have known Him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, Because you have overcome the wicked one. I write to you, little children, Because you have known the Father.
¹⁴  I have written to you, fathers, Because you have known Him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, Because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, And you have overcome the wicked one.

Believers Life Style Bible Study
July 31, 2021
Spiritual Blessings in Christ
Ephesians 1:1-14
Presented by Michael Webb

Open It

1. How often do you compliment others?
2. How do you usually respond when someone compliments you?
3. *What blessings have you received recently?

Explore It

4. How was Paul made an apostle? (1:1)
5. To whom was the letter addressed? (1:1)
6. What greetings did Paul extend to the believers at Ephesus? (1:2)
7. *How has God blessed believers? (1:3)
8. When did God’s work of election take place? (1:4)
9. What is the purpose of God’s election? (1:4)
10. What did God determine beforehand for those who believe in Christ? (1:5)
11. What is the goal of God’s election? (1:6)
12. What is redemption? (1:7)
13. *What does the work of Christ do for the believer? (1:7)
14. What has God given the believer? (1:8-10)
15. When will everything be brought together? (1:10)
16. How did God’s plan include people of different cultures? (1:11-12)
17. *What is the role of the Holy Spirit in the lives of those called to receive spiritual blessings in Christ? (1:13-14)

Get It

18. What are spiritual blessings?
19. *In everyday language, how would you describe the spiritual blessings given to you?
20. How do you picture the persons of the Trinity at work in your life?
21. How should knowing that you were chosen to be in the family of God affect your involvement in evangelism?
22. What has Christ done on our behalf?
23. How have you benefited from the grace of God?
24. *For what work of God on your behalf are you most thankful? Why?
25. Why did God do this amazing work for us?

Apply It

26. *How can you say thank you to God this week for what He has done for you?
27. What do you need to do differently to live for the praise of God’s glory this week?
28. In the days ahead, how can you share with other people those blessings God has given you?

Believers Life Style Bible Study
July 3, 2021
The Flood
Genesis 6:1-8:22
Presented by Michael Webb

Open It

1. What is the most significant natural disaster you have witnessed or experienced?
2. *What do you find most disturbing about society today?

Explore It

1. *Why did God limit life to a hundred and twenty years? (6:1-3)
2. What are the main events in these verses? (6:1-8:22)
3. *Why did God say He would wipe mankind off the face of the earth? (6:5-7)
4. *What kind of man was Noah? (6:8-10)
5. What did God tell Noah to build? Why? (6:11-14)
6. What did God tell Noah He was going to destroy? (6:17)
7. What did God say He would establish with Noah? (6:18)
8. With what did God instruct Noah to fill the ark? (6:19-21)
9. Why did God tell Noah he was allowed to enter the ark? (7:1)
10. What happened to all the living creatures that were not on the ark? (7:21-23)
11. What happened after the Flood ended but before Noah and his family got off the ark? (8:1-14)
12. Why did God tell Noah to bring the animals off the ark? (8:15-17)
13. What did Noah do when he got off the ark? (8:20)
14. How did the Lord respond to Noah’s offering? (8:21-22)

Get It

1. *How does Noah’s world compare to our society?
2. Why was God willing to destroy most every living thing?
3. Who is someone you know whom you would describe as blameless?
4. *How can we maintain a blameless reputation?
5. What is the significance of God’s covenant with Noah?
6. How does God respond to the evil in our society?
7. Why did Noah worship God after getting off the ark?
8. Why do you think God promised never to destroy the earth with a flood again?
9. Among whom do you have a reputation for serving God?

Apply It

1. *What is one thing you can do to cultivate a blameless reputation among your coworkers? Neighbors?
2. What is one act of protection or provision from God for which you want to praise Him?

Believers Life Style Bible Study
June 5, 2021
The Fall
Genesis 2:4 – 3:24
Presented by Michael Webb

Open It

1. What makes forbidden things so tempting?
2. What are some of the joys and frustrations of marriage?
3. When was the first time you stole a cookie?

Explore It

1. What are the main events described in these verses? (2:4-3:24)
2. When and how did God create man? (2:4-7)
3. What did God put in the middle of the Garden of Eden? (2:9)
4. For what purpose did God put man in the Garden of Eden? (2:8, 15)
5. What command did God give man? (2:16-17)
6. What did God say was not good? (2:18)
7. How did God create woman, and what was Adam’s response to her? (2:21-23)
8. What would be the result of man becoming united with his wife? (2:24)
9. What did the serpent ask the woman, and how did she respond? (3:1-3)
10. Why did the serpent say that God did not want the woman to eat the forbidden fruit? (3:4-5)
11. What happened when Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit? (3:6-7)
12. What did Adam and Eve do when they heard God? Why? (3:8-10)
13. How did Adam and Eve respond when God asked them why they disobeyed? (3:11-13)
14. How did God punish the serpent, the man, and the woman? (3:14-19)
15. Why did God drive Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden? (3:22-24)

Get It

1. How is it significant that God created man and “breathed into him the breath of life”?
2. What does the fact that it was not good for man to be alone tell us about the importance of relationships?
3. What is the significance of the fact that Adam felt no shame at being naked?
4. What does it mean to become one flesh?
5. What difference does it make what we think about Satan and his attempts to deceive us?
6. What’s the problem with having “knowledge of good and evil”?
7. Why are we attracted to do what God has forbidden?
8. How does this original sin affect us on a daily basis?
9. What do these verses tell us about temptation and how to resist it?
10. What lies do people tend to believe these days?
11. What does the fact that Adam and Eve felt no shame before their sin and that they felt shame after their sin tell us about the effects of sin?

Apply It

1. What is one thing you can do to improve your relationship with your spouse or a good friend?
2. What can you do to help you remember God’s truth this week?
3. *How can you become wiser about the schemes of the devil?

The Believers Life Style Bible Study
Presents
A Tree and Its Fruit
Scripture References:
Matthew 7:15-23
November 21, 2020
Presented by Michael Webb

Open It

1. *What do you know about vegetable gardening?
2. What kind of inner alarm (if any) alerts you to the fact that a person is a phony?
3. What is your favorite fruit?

Explore It

1. Against whom did Jesus warn us? Why? (7:15)
2. What do false prophets look like on the outside? (7:15)
3. What are false prophets like inwardly? (7:15)
4. How did Christ say we could recognize false prophets? (7:16, 20)
5. *What does nature reveal about a tree and its fruit? (7:16)
6. What kind of fruit do good trees bear? Why? (7:17-18)
7. What type of produce grows on bad trees? Why? (7:17-18)
8. *What happens to trees that fail to produce good fruit? (7:18)
9. *Who will enter the kingdom of heaven? (7:21)
10. How will some people try to talk their way into heaven? (7:22)
11. What credentials or accomplishments will some people claim? (7:22)
12. How will Jesus respond to these impostors? (7:23)
13. What is necessary for entry into heaven? (7:23)

Get It

1. Why do we continue to sin if we have Christ in our heart and the Holy Spirit in our lives?
2. *What does this passage tell us about the importance of doing good works?
3. How do good works and salvation fit together?
4. *How can people be “religious” yet not follow Christ?
5. What kind of good works have you been producing lately?
6. What evidence in your life points to your relationship with Jesus?

Apply It

1. What spiritual disciplines can you use to cultivate your soul this week?
2. *In what area of your life can you place more emphasis on doing good works each day this week?

Scripture References:

Matthew 7:15-23 (NKJV)
¹⁵  “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.
¹⁶  You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thorn bushes or figs from thistles?
¹⁷  Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.
¹⁸  A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit.
¹⁹  Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
²⁰  Therefore by their fruits you will know them.
²¹  “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.
²²  Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’
²³  And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’

The Believers Life Style Bible Study
Presents
The Little Children and Jesus
Scripture References:
Matthew 19:13-15
November 7, 2020
Presented by all the Students of Bible Study

Open It

1. What are some ways people abuse positions of authority?
2. Where do we draw the line between being productive and being rushed, or between being dedicated and being driven?
3. What are the most exciting and the most frightening aspects of parenthood?
4. *What would you do differently if you could live your childhood over again?

Explore It

1. What people were being brought to Jesus? Why? (19:13)
2. *Why were children being brought to Jesus? (19:13)
3. To whom did some parents bring their children? Why? (19:13)
4. How did the disciples react to the fact that children were being brought to Jesus? (19:13)
5. On whom did the disciples vent their displeasure? (19:13)
6. *How did Jesus correct the disciples? (19:14)
7. Why did Jesus command the disciples to allow the children to come to Him? (19:14)
8. According to Jesus, what kind of people will possess the kingdom of heaven? (19:14)
9. *What did Jesus do for the little children? (19:15)
10. What did Jesus do after He spent time with the children? (19:15)

Get It

1. *Why do you think the disciples got irritated about the children being brought to Jesus?
2. What are some ways you get so caught up in your schedule or “to do” list that you are insensitive or even rude to the people around you?
3. What is the purpose behind the church practice of “baby dedication”?
4. What are some ways we might hinder children from coming to Christ?
5. *What did Jesus mean by saying that “the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these”?
6. What are the advantages to trusting in Christ at an early age?
7. How early can a child truly comprehend the gospel?

Apply It

1. What are some specific ways you could bless a child today?
2. *How can you become more childlike in your faith over the next month?

Scripture References:

Matthew 19:13-15 (NKJV)
¹³  Then little children were brought to Him that He might put His hands on them and pray, but the disciples rebuked them.
¹⁴  But Jesus said, “Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of heaven.”
¹⁵  And He laid His hands on them and departed from there.