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    A Walk Thru the Book of Ruth (Walk Thru the Bible Discussion Guides): Loyalty and Love
    A Walk Thru the Book of Ruth (Walk Thru the Bible Discussion Guides): Loyalty and Love
    A Walk Thru the Book of Ruth (Walk Thru the Bible Discussion Guides): Loyalty and Love
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    A Walk Thru the Book of Ruth (Walk Thru the Bible Discussion Guides): Loyalty and Love

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    Christians all over the world trust Walk Thru the Bible to help them deepen their spiritual lives through a greater understanding of God's Word. Now Walk Thru the Bible is launching its own small group Bible study series that will uncover the richness of the Scriptures. Each guide explores a book of the Bible or a prominent Bible character, offering rich insights and practical life application.
    These discussion guides are perfect for Bible study groups, Sunday schools, small groups, and individuals who want a deeper understanding of books of the Bible and heroes of the faith.

    About the series
    Christians all over the world trust Walk Thru the Bible to help them deepen their spiritual lives through a greater understanding of God's Word. Now Walk Thru the Bible is launching a new inductive Bible study series with Baker Books that will uncover the richness of the Scriptures. Each guide explores a book of the Bible or a prominent Bible character, offering rich insights and practical life application. These discussion guides are perfect for Bible study groups, Sunday schools, small groups, and individuals who want a deeper understanding of books of the Bible and heroes of the faith.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBaker Publishing Group
    Release dateAug 1, 2009
    ISBN9781441234964
    A Walk Thru the Book of Ruth (Walk Thru the Bible Discussion Guides): Loyalty and Love

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      A Walk Thru the Book of Ruth (Walk Thru the Bible Discussion Guides) - Baker Publishing Group

      A Walk Thru the Book of

      RUTH

      Loyalty and Love

      Walk Thru the Bible

      © 2009 by Walk Thru the Bible

      Published by Baker Books

      a division of Baker Publishing Group

      P.O. Box 6287, Grand Rapids, MI 49516-6287

      www.bakerbooks.com

      E-book edition created 2011

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—for example, electronic, photocopy, recording—without the prior written permission of the publisher. The only exception is brief quotations in printed reviews.

      ISBN 978-1-4412-3496-4

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is on file at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

      Scripture is taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved. www.zondervan.com

      Cover image: ozgurdonmaz / iStock

      Contents

      Introduction

      Session 1   A Lawless Land

      Session 2    A Tragic Family

      Session 3   A Place for a Stranger

      Session 4   Courage

      Session 5   What’s Right in God’s Eyes

      Session 6    An Everlasting Picture

      Conclusion

      Leader’s Notes

      Bibliography

      Introduction

      Chris Gardner was as low as he could get. Homeless, a single dad, and jobless, he had nowhere to go but up. But few people were willing to help him move in that direction. Through determination, persistence, and hard work, he eventually got an unpaid internship at a stock brokerage firm, earned a solid income, and got promoted again and again. By the end of the story, he was very successful and very wealthy. He had gone from rags to riches through strength of character and relentlessly pursuing unlikely opportunities.

      That’s the Chris Gardner from the film The Pursuit of Happyness (based on the real-life experience of a successful broker by the same name). It’s one of those feel-good stories of a destitute and hopeless person who ends up bountifully blessed and fulfilled. While many of these sorts of stories teach a pull-yourself-up-by-the-bootstraps message, the book of Ruth tells a different story. Ruth positions herself to receive God’s blessing through her commitment and hard work, but God is the one whose plans prevails in the end. By the end, both she and her mother-in-law, Naomi, have gone from hopeless poverty to abundant and lasting life.

      Background

      Ruth was probably written during the time of David. The genealogy at the end of the book includes him but goes no further. The events themselves, however, took place about a century before David during the time of the Judges, while Israel was still without a king. That period lasted around three hundred years, so Ruth and Boaz would have to have been married toward the end of that era in order to be David’s great-grandparents.

      While Naomi, Ruth, and Boaz were alive, life in the Promised Land didn’t seem as promising as Israel had hoped. There were reasons for this; God had given quite specific instructions for being his chosen people—along with promises of abundant blessings for obedience and dire consequences for disobedience—yet the people of Israel had not followed him wholeheartedly. In fact, after the first generation in the Promised Land died off, Israelites forgot what God had done for them and let their hearts get caught up in the idolatry indigenous to Canaan. They experienced a cyclical pattern of disobedience, then judgment, then desperate prayers for deliverance, then deliverance, then apathy again. It was seen as a lawless time— Israel’s version of the old American West, where law-abiding citizens were often overshadowed by those

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