This week was the last week of our What Love Is and Seamless Online Bible Studies.* We loved getting to be part of your lives this summer and are so thankful you chose to study Scripture alongside us and each other. We hope you learned about and grew closer to Jesus by learning from His beloved disciple and/or learning how the entire story of Scripture points to Him.
Here are a few stats we thought you might like to know:
(as of now—new people sign up every day!)
10,149 people signed up to do our summer Bible studies.
3,104 comments were written on the Bible study posts.
30 different countries and 43 different states were represented.
And that means a whole lot of women stayed in God’s Word this summer through online study!
Our favorite part of this has been reading your comments (we’re still getting to a few of them!). If you want to read about life change happening in women (and men) around the world, spend some time scrolling through them. Here are a few short bits we loved.
The most significant thing that I take away from this time of study is the reassurance that God loves me, He always has and He always will. – Angie, What Love Is study
I was able to do this study with by beautiful daughter even though we are 8000 miles away. We have always been close but this brought us even closer. – Sondi, What Love Is study
I’ve been blown away by how SIMPLE the story really is. I prayed at the beginning of the study that as a long time Christian, I could see the Word of God with fresh eyes … and I have. – Katie, Seamless study
I absolutely LOVED this Bible study! I have looked forward to starting every morning with my homework and I’m so excited to continue this journey and digging even deeper. – Samantha, Seamless study
(We know that many of you participated in Facebook groups and small groups “in real life” and had discussion there, too.)
Let’s keep this party going, shall we?
This fall, we will be studying Living Free by Beth Moore.
Ready to replace false strongholds with true freedom in Christ? As you learn to pray Scripture with Living Free, you’ll realize the life God desires for you. Author Beth Moore explores the somewhat radical idea that we cannot please God by being perfect. The study begins by defining false strongholds, then focuses on five key benefits for every believer:
- Know God and believe Him
- Glorify God
- Find satisfaction in God
- Experience God’s peace
- Enjoy God
With Living Free participants can learn how to develop a Godward focus in life, while beginning to incorporate the key benefits in their lives through practices of prayer and Bible study.
We will begin sign ups for the online Bible study soon and the study will be on Thursdays starting September 17. It will be a seven week study.*
We know that many churches have fall Bible studies and we want you to participate in community with your local church. This Bible study is not meant to replace those. You can do the study alone (with the community here online) or with a group of people. We want this to be available to those who are studying together and those going solo.
To fully participate in the study, you’ll need to purchase a Living Free Bible study book. We love the new cover (pictured above) and hope you will, too! You can purchase a study book at your local Lifeway store or online here. You can purchase an eBook here (sometimes this is the best option for those joining in from overseas). [NOTE: We are aware the books are on backorder online. We hope to have more in soon. In the meantime, there are books in stock in the stores. You can find your local Lifeway store here. Sorry for the inconvenience!]
Thank you for studying the Word with us this summer! We hope you’ll make plans to join us in the fall.
* The studies will stay live. We have no plans to take them down, so if you want to go back and start either one, you can do so at any time!
