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    Messy People - Women's Bible Study Leader Guide: Life Lessons from Imperfect Biblical Heroes
    Messy People - Women's Bible Study Leader Guide: Life Lessons from Imperfect Biblical Heroes
    Messy People - Women's Bible Study Leader Guide: Life Lessons from Imperfect Biblical Heroes
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    Messy People - Women's Bible Study Leader Guide: Life Lessons from Imperfect Biblical Heroes

    By Jennifer Cowart

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    God can turn your messy life into a masterpiece.

    Every life gets messy at times. Sometimes these messes are literal, like a house that would be easier to condemn than to clean. But sometimes they are intangible messes such as illness, conflict, depression, abuse, bankruptcy, divorce, and job loss. And these messes can be painful, hurting our hearts and our homes. But as we see in the Bible, God loves to use messy people!

    In this six-week study, we will dig into the lives of biblical heroes who were messy people just like us but who were used by God in powerful ways. Together we will examine the stories of five wonderful but messy people and one messy parable character: Rahab, the Prodigal Son, Josiah, Mary, David, and Daniel. From their stories, we will learn how God can use broken people, restore damaged hearts and relationships, give us power to handle our critics, and help us deal with the hard moments of life. Along the way we’ll discover that we don’t have to just endure messy lives but can actually learn to thrive with God’s guidance and help. In the hands of God, our messes can become His masterpieces!

    The Leader Guide, to be used along with the study's workbook and DVD, contains six session plan outlines, complete with discussion points and questions, activities, prayers, and more—plus leader helps for facilitating a group.

    Other components for the Bible study, available separately, include a Participant Workbook, and DVD with six 10-15 minute sessions.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAbingdon Press
    Release dateSep 4, 2018
    ISBN9781501863158
    Messy People - Women's Bible Study Leader Guide: Life Lessons from Imperfect Biblical Heroes
    Author

    Jennifer Cowart

    Jennifer Cowart is Executive and Teaching pastor of Harvest Church. With degrees in Christian education, counseling, and business, she has been integral to the development of the Emerging and Discipleship Ministries at Harvest. Jen is a gifted Bible teacher and speaker and the author of four women’s Bible studies, Thrive, Pursued, Fierce, and Messy People as well as several studies co-authored with her husband, Jim, including The One and Living the Five. She and Jim love doing life with their kids, Aly, Josh, and Andrew.

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      Messy People - Women's Bible Study Leader Guide - Jennifer Cowart

      Praise for Messy People:

      Life Lessons from Imperfect Biblical Heroes

      Jennifer has a unique gift of making the Bible applicable to living a victorious life in everyday situations! This Bible study encourages, convicts, and equips us as we seek Jesus in all that we do.

      If you’ve ever felt like your life is a mess, this study is for you. Jen is a down-to-earth, in-the-trenches, authentic follower of Christ who guides with humor and practical insights as to how we can allow God to turn our messes into His masterpieces. You will love the life application this study brings, freeing us up from the chains culture pushes us into.

      I have seen Jen’s life and ministry up close and can say with confidence that her heart is for seeing messy lives get whole and healthy. Messy People is about finding hope, balance, peace, and wisdom by being immersed in the lessons of Scripture. Thanks, Jen, for pointing us back to the source of peace in the midst of a messy world.

      Using the Bible, humor, probing questions, and her own life experiences, Jennifer helps you break through the clutter and confusion of life to uncover your destiny and identity in Christ. You will discover the God who delights in making a masterpiece out of your mess.

      By the power of story you will be escorted through the messy lives of biblical people, and in the process you’ll discover something of yourself. Fueled by insightful commentary, real life experience, and "I get it" humor, you will be delightfully reminded that God did, does, and will use messy people.

      Messy People

      Life Lessons from Imperfect Biblical Heroes

      Leader Guide

      Copyright © 2018 Abingdon Press

      All rights reserved.

      No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, except as may be expressly permitted by the 1976 Copyright Act or in writing from the publisher. Requests for permission can be addressed to Permissions, The United Methodist Publishing House, 2222 Rosa L. Parks Boulevard, Nashville, TN 37228-1306, or e-mailed to permissions@umpublishing.org.

      ISBN 978-1-5018-6314-1

      Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright ©1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.

      Scripture quotations marked (GNT) are from the Good News Translation in Today’s English Version- Second Edition © 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.

      Scripture quotations noted KJV are from The Authorized (King James) Version. Rights in the Authorized Version in the United Kingdom are vested in the Crown. Reproduced by permission of the Crown’s patentee, Cambridge University Press.

      Scripture quotations marked (NIV) are from the Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.com The NIV and New International Version are trademarks registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Biblica, Inc.™

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      Contents

      About the Author

      Introduction

      Basic Leader Helps

      Introductory Session

      Week 1: Rahab: Changing Your Messy Story

      (Joshua 2; 6)

      Week 2: The Prodigal Son: Restoring Messy Relationships

      (Luke 15:11-32)

      Week 3: Josiah: Breaking Messy Family Cycles

      (2 Kings 22–23; 2 Chronicles 34–35)

      Week 4: Mary: Surviving Life’s Messy Plot Twists

      (Luke 1:26-38)

      Week 5: David: Overcoming the Mess of Criticism

      (1 Samuel 16–18; 2 Samuel 12; 15)

      Week 6: Daniel: Thriving in Messy Circumstances

      (Daniel 1–3)

      Video Viewer Guide: Answers

      About the Author

      Jennifer Cowart is the Executive Pastor at Harvest Church, a United Methodist congregation in Warner Robins, Georgia, that she and her husband, Jim, began in 2001. Today Harvest serves about 2,500 people in seven worship services weekly. With degrees in Christian education, counseling, and business, she oversees a wide variety of ministries and enjoys doing life and ministry with others. As a gifted Bible teacher and speaker, Jen brings biblical truth to life through humor, authenticity, and everyday application. She and Jim have co-written several small group studies together, including Hand Me Downs and Living the Five. They are

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