Women in the Word: a Workshop…
… is an annual two-day Workshop
built around small group study sessions that are interspersed with large group teaching sessions. There are five of these small group sessions (Study Groups) and four general sessions. General sessions build your understanding of a Bible text or theme while demonstrating what careful Scripture study looks like and produces. Study Groups are interspersed among these large group sessions and are a safe place for you and the other women in your group to practice interpreting and applying the text you are studying.
Once you are at the Workshop, your Study Group will engage in multi-session discussions, guided and encouraged by your Study Group Leader. Group members work with their Central Ideas and develop better skills for “rightly handling the word of truth.” [2Tim. 2:15] The effort you put into identifying the CI in your passage before the Workshop is essential to the effectiveness of the Study Group.
God’s revelation of Himself to us and for us is worth digging into and hearing it speak. The Workshop provides tools to do that digging, and it helps refine the study tools you may already have and gives you some new ones. You try out these tools as you work through your assigned passages in preparation for the Workshop. At the Workshop, you see and hear those tools modeled in large group sessions. Then you practice and refine them during the six hours spent with the Bible in small Study Groups.
Workshop Schedule
FRIDAY
| 12:30 PM | Study Group Sign-in |
| 12:45 PM | Study Group Session 1 |
| 2:00 PM | General Session 1 |
| 2:45 PM | Break |
| 3:00 PM | General Session 2 |
| 4:15 PM | Break |
| 4:30 PM | Study Group Session 2 |
| 6:15 PM | Dinner (included) |
| 7:15 PM | General Session 3 |
| 8:45 PM | Close for evening |
SATURDAY
| 8:30 AM | Coffee, Tea |
| 9:00 AM | Study Group Session 3 |
| 10:30 AM | Break |
| 10:45 AM | General Session 4 |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch (included) |
| 1:00 PM | Study Group Session 4 |
| 2:30 PM | Break |
| 2:45 PM | Study Group Session 5 |
| 3:50 PM | Pulling It All Together |
| 4:30 PM | End of Workshop |
The New Testament lies hidden in the Old, and the Old Testament is unveiled in the New. ~ Augustine, A.D. 354-430
One of the most important gifts we hope Workshop participants will take away is the sense that the Bible tells a coherent, interconnected story about God’s intention to save a people for Himself through Christ. Each book and passage fits somewhere on the timeline of this story, and our understanding of this “Big Picture” will affect our ability to carefully interpret each smaller part.
The learning that takes place in the two parts of the Workshop – the Study Group sessions and the large group teaching sessions – are connected because all of Scripture is one big story, all pointing to the work of the One and Only Son. From Genesis to Revelation each book is an irreplaceable part of that one great story. So, what you learn in each part of the Workshop will bring you to a deeper understanding of the God who reveals Himself in and through His Word. The Word is worth the Work and the Author is worthy of worship!
