Lab Study Guide Fall 2017
LAB STUDY GUIDE FALL 2017 Date: Text:
Teacher: Any other Text?:
1. Read the Text Together Read the Text for this week out loud with your group. 2. Make Observations What stands out? What phrases caught your attention? Any repetition, contrasts, comparisons? 3. Ask Questions
What is confusing or hard to understand? Any details that might be important? Ask: who, what, where, when, why, how?
4. Background Information Exodus 2 The Bible is a story about a God who loves his people and wants his people to live out and proclaim God’s story. God’s people, the Israelites, fled to Egypt in order to survive a severe, several year famine but then never went back “home.” Egypt is an amazing and beautiful place that is extremely green, and fertile, the gift of the Nile River was perfect for crops. Eventually the Israelites became slaves to the Egyptians, and they were in slavery for 400 years. Then Pharaoh, the ruler of Egypt and the most powerful man in the ancient world, mandated that all Israelite boys that were born needed to be killed. When Moses was born, he is miraculously saved and ends up being “adopted” by Pharaoh and his family. So Moses grows up in Pharaoh’s house while his fellow Israelites are suffering horrible persecution. You can read this in Exodus 1-2. John 4 Jesus goes to a well in Samaria and encounters a Samaritan woman there. “Samaritans” were a racially mixed group of partly Jewish and partly Gentile ancestry, and were rejected by both Jews and non-Jews. They were regarded as continually unclean, and had a long history of paganism and apostasy in the Northern Kingdom. So Jews did not associate with Samaritans Verse 6 – The 6th hour = Noon, heat of the day, would have been hot. People usually came to draw water in the cool of the morning or evening. This woman is there when no one else would be there. Why? She was probably an outcast even among the outcasted Samaritans 5. Application Questions 1. How did you feel about going to the Well for the first time? Did you feel like the Well was a place for you? 2. Any personal story of running and hiding after you did something wrong as a kid? 3. Why do you think we have a tendency to run and/or hide when we screw up? 4. When you have screwed up, why is it hard to be around God/the Christian community? 5. What about this story of Moses or the woman at the well gives you hope for your own journey? 6. Have everyone answer…. What is something you learned about Jesus this week by studying the story of Moses?
Teacher: Any other Text?:
1. Read the Text Together Read the Text for this week out loud with your group. 2. Make Observations What stands out? What phrases caught your attention? Any repetition, contrasts, comparisons? 3. Ask Questions
What is confusing or hard to understand? Any details that might be important? Ask: who, what, where, when, why, how?
4. Background Information Exodus 2 The Bible is a story about a God who loves his people and wants his people to live out and proclaim God’s story. God’s people, the Israelites, fled to Egypt in order to survive a severe, several year famine but then never went back “home.” Egypt is an amazing and beautiful place that is extremely green, and fertile, the gift of the Nile River was perfect for crops. Eventually the Israelites became slaves to the Egyptians, and they were in slavery for 400 years. Then Pharaoh, the ruler of Egypt and the most powerful man in the ancient world, mandated that all Israelite boys that were born needed to be killed. When Moses was born, he is miraculously saved and ends up being “adopted” by Pharaoh and his family. So Moses grows up in Pharaoh’s house while his fellow Israelites are suffering horrible persecution. You can read this in Exodus 1-2. John 4 Jesus goes to a well in Samaria and encounters a Samaritan woman there. “Samaritans” were a racially mixed group of partly Jewish and partly Gentile ancestry, and were rejected by both Jews and non-Jews. They were regarded as continually unclean, and had a long history of paganism and apostasy in the Northern Kingdom. So Jews did not associate with Samaritans Verse 6 – The 6th hour = Noon, heat of the day, would have been hot. People usually came to draw water in the cool of the morning or evening. This woman is there when no one else would be there. Why? She was probably an outcast even among the outcasted Samaritans 5. Application Questions 1. How did you feel about going to the Well for the first time? Did you feel like the Well was a place for you? 2. Any personal story of running and hiding after you did something wrong as a kid? 3. Why do you think we have a tendency to run and/or hide when we screw up? 4. When you have screwed up, why is it hard to be around God/the Christian community? 5. What about this story of Moses or the woman at the well gives you hope for your own journey? 6. Have everyone answer…. What is something you learned about Jesus this week by studying the story of Moses?
