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    Context Leader Guide: Putting Scripture in Its Place
    Context Leader Guide: Putting Scripture in Its Place
    Context Leader Guide: Putting Scripture in Its Place
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    Context Leader Guide: Putting Scripture in Its Place

    By Josh Scott

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    Exploring the Chapter Behind the Verse.

    The Leader Guide contains everything needed to guide a group through the six-week study, including session plans, activities, discussion questions, and multiple format options. Components include a book, Context: Putting Scripture in Its Place, and video teaching sessions featuring Josh Scott, making this perfect as a group study throughout the year.

    Context looks at verses we know by heart but may not know the people, places, and times that give them meaning. Josh Scott delves into these well-known Scripture verses, exploring their true meanings by examining them in their original biblical context. Through this process, he unveils fresh and enlightening interpretations that are often missed when these Scriptures are taken out of context.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAbingdon Press
    Release dateApr 2, 2024
    ISBN9781791032128
    Context Leader Guide: Putting Scripture in Its Place
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    Josh Scott

    Josh Scott has been a pastor for the last two decades, spending 14 years leading a progressive church in rural Kentucky before moving to Nashville and serving as the Lead Pastor at GracePointe Church in April 2019. Josh is an active voice in the conversation of imagining the future of progressive Christianity, with the focus of his work on reimagining, reframing, and reclaiming faith through a progressive Christian lens, while making those concepts and ideas practically accessible. Josh is the author of the upcoming Context: Putting Scripture in Its Place, releasing in April 2024. He lives near Nashville, TN with his wife, Carla, and five kids.

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      Context Leader Guide - Josh Scott

      INTRODUCTION

      An oft-quoted old saying in some preaching circles says, Any text without context is a pretext. In Context: Putting Scripture in Its Place, Josh Scott, lead pastor of GracePointe Church in Nashville, Tennessee, encourages all Christians to take a second look (or third, or fourth, or even further look) at six Bible verses and stories widely familiar to Christians and even the wider culture in isolation—some of what Josh at one point calls the Bible’s Greatest Hits—within their biblical context. When we do so, we may find these familiar texts aren’t saying what we thought or were told they were saying. We can avoid using them as pretexts and proof texts for attitudes and actions that may align more with our culture than the Gospel and can instead hear them as God’s living and challenging Word, summoning us to greater, more creative and loving, and more faithful discipleship.

      This Leader Guide is designed to help small groups engage Context and the biblical passages it addresses. Its six sessions correspond to the chapters of Josh’s book:

      Session 1: A More Excellent Way (1 Corinthians 13)

      Session 2: Your People Will Be My People (Ruth 1:16 CEB)

      Session 3: You Always Have the Poor with You (Mark 14:7)

      Session 4: For Surely I Know the Plans I Have for You (Jeremiah 29:11)

      Session 5: I Can Do All Things Through Him Who Strengthens Me (Philippians 4:13)

      Session 6: Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis 19)

      Each session contains the following elements to draw from as you plan six in-person, virtual, or hybrid sessions:

      Session Objectives

      Biblical Foundations–Scripture texts for the session, in the New Revised Standard Version, Updated Edition or Common English Bible.

      Before Your Session–Tips to help you prepare a productive session.

      Starting Your Session–Discussion questions intended to warm up your group for fruitful discussion.

      Book Discussion Questions–You likely will not be able or want to use all the questions in every session, so feel free to pick and choose based on your group’s interests, leaving room for the Spirit to lead your discussion!

      Closing Your Session–A focused discussion to help participants move from reflection in the session to planning action beyond it.

      Opening and Closing Prayers

      Thank you for leading your group in this study of Context. Leaders like you, committed to facilitating Christian education in congregations, help ensure that God’s people continue to grow not only in their understanding of Scripture but also in their commitment to living out the values to which, through the Bible’s ancient pages, God still calls us.

      SESSION 1

      A More Excellent Way

      (1 Corinthians 13)

      SESSION OBJECTIVES

      This session will help participants:

      Think about the popularity of 1 Corinthians 13 in wedding ceremonies.

      Appreciate 1 Corinthians as an actual letter Paul wrote to a specific congregation for practical, pastoral reasons.

      Explore three core conflicts in the Corinthian congregation—over personalities, over abuse of the communal meal, and over spiritual gifts—as reflections of problematic hierarchies, and the ways Paul sought to guide the Corinthians through these conflicts.

      Understand why Paul commended agape love as a more excellent way for the Corinthian congregation.

      Identify ways their congregation currently expresses agape love, and how it could grow in expressing such love.

      BIBLICAL FOUNDATIONS

      If I speak in the tongues of humans and of angels but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers and understand all mysteries and all knowledge and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away all my possessions and if I hand over my body so that I may boast but do not have love, I gain nothing.

      Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable; it keeps no record of wrongs; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

      Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come

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