Theme: Transforming Hearts Through God’s Word

Verse: Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path. Psalm 119:105

Possible Schedule: Welcome and Opening Scripture Praise and Worship Prayer Activity (need Bibles for ladies and prizes like chocolates) Meal Guest speaker Closing song Prayer

Decorations: Darken the room and entry way. Light the path into your area with spot lights or candles (in glass). Place foot-shaped cutouts along the path to guide the way. You can put Bible verses in each shape. Decorate tables with newspapers as your tablecloth, Bibles, and candles.

Welcome and Opening Scripture: Welcome… We are bombarded with news each day, this news whether good or bad needs to be viewed in the light of God’s Word. Because “Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path.”

Praise and Worship: (suggestions) My Lighthouse by Rend Collective First by Lauren Daigle

Activity: Rick Warren was once asked what the best translation of the Bible was. His answer was great, “When you translate it into your life.” Isn’t that what Bible study is all about? If you are not translating the Words of God into your life, are you really studying the Bible?

God gave us the Bible to transform us, not just to inform us. It should give us a bigger heart, not a bigger head! “Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves, Do what it says,” James 1:22. In other words, God wants our beliefs reflected in our behavior!

God spells out the purpose for the Bible in 2 Timothy 3:16-17, “All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives. It corrects us when we are wrong and teaches us to do what is right. God uses it to prepare and equip his people to do every good work.” (NLT) The purpose of the Bible is more than just showing us what is wrong in our lives and how we should live; God gave us His Word to radically transform our lives.

Just as we are bombarded with news each day, we are also bombarded with lies. We are going to have a little competition. I am going to read a lie that the world tells us. I am going to give you a Bible verse that tells us God’s truth. I would like each of you to get a Bible. The first lady to find the verse should stand and read it. Not only do you get to discover the truth first and get the opportunity to share it with others, but you also get a prize!!

World says but God’s Word says: (taken from The Search for Significance by Robert McGee – feel free to add more or do your own)

I must meet certain standards to feel good about myself ----- Romans 5:1 I must be approved by certain others to feel good about myself ----- Col.

1:21,22 Those who fail (including myself) are unworthy of love and deserve to be

punished --- 1 John 4:9-11 I am what I am. I cannot change. I am hopeless ----- John 3:3-6

Guest Speaker: Can be someone sharing their testimony of how they have been transformed

by God’s Word. Elaborate on 2 Timothy 3:16-17 Give a “history lesson” on the Bible and speak on how people have tried to

destroy it but it still remains today

Closing Song: Thy Word by Amy Grant