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This seven-session Bible study by Timothy Keller on Romans 1 – 7 will help you to understand one of the most read, most written-about parts of the Bible.
Explore righteousness (why we don’t have it, why we need it, and how we can receive it) and be thrilled as you read that "the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord" (Romans 6:23). It's a truth which will liberate every aspect of your life.
Each session will draw you to look closely at the Bible text and apply it meaningfully to your everyday life. The guide includes questions that open up discussion, optional personal reflections, and a ...concise Leader’s Guide.
Flexible and easy to use, Good Book Guides are perfect for both groups and individuals.
“The Good Book Guides are a fantastic resource for small-groups and personal study. I've used many of them myself. For a busy small-group leader, or a Christian looking for refreshment in his or her devotional life, these come so highly recommended.” - Sam Allberry, Pastor and Author
“Each guide in this series provides a framework for your group to dig into the text of Scripture for itself while providing enough of a steer to keep you on track plus useful pointers towards application. The result is a great combination of fidelity to Scripture and ease of use.” - Tim Chester, Crosslands Training; Author
Tim Keller's ministry has had a significant impact on my life and I'm grateful for the books and resources he has written. This study guide for Romans 1-7, however, is an exception. I wonder if someone else wrote it using Keller's themes instead of Keller himself writing the questions. Our women's Bible study group found the workbook questions to be shallow and often missing the main points of the passage. Romans is so rich, but the questions didn't dig into the depths at all. Topics that could have been served by several questions peeling back layers of God's character and ...purposes, were treated with one simple question that could be answered with a single "Sunday School answer". By half-way through the study, we gave up on the workbook and used discussion questions we found in commentaries and other resources we were using.
This is a verse-by-verse study on the first half of the book of Romans. Each of the 7 sessions has the following format as well as a dictionary for some of the key words.
Talkabout: ice breaker for groups or getting your thoughts going if doing alone
Investigate: explore the passage
Apply: practical questions
Explore more: go deeper
Getting Personal: personal reflection
Pray: prayer
There’s a leader’s guide in the second half of the book to facilitate group discussions. There’s also a map at the beginning as well as some context for why to study Romans.
This is a clear and concise study guide. It offers very little commentary or context, but can be used as a companion to the commentary “Romans 1-7 for You”. I do appreciate the separation of these as I can tend to focus more easily on the commentary than the actual verses when they are together. This study allows me to wrestle with Scripture on my own before immediately turning to a commentary. I think this approach helps me to actually learn better than reading the verses with the commentary before approaching the questions.
I enjoy the simplicity to the study guide with how each session is laid out. It can easily be done on its own for individual study, but is also set up to be great for groups. The leader’s guide in the back equips even the most inexperienced leader to do well. These are targeted for adults, but I am even thinking about using them in our homeschooling in our preteen/teen years with the kids.
I received a complimentary copy as a reviewer and all opinions shared are my own.
(Review written for 'Romans 1-7: The gift of God')
Just finished this Good Book study guide with a small home-group. We felt it was a helpful guide into this important and, at times, difficult book.
Have used a number of these studies in the past, so would definitely recommend them as a trustworthy resource. The investigate-explore-apply-pray model is a tried and trusted one. It purposely gives you more than you need, which allows you to tailor each chapter to the needs of the group. That does mean that the ...poor leader has a reasonable amount of ground to cover in advance, but the group will benefit from their investment in preparation and their facilitation skills.
I also bought Tim Keller’s accompanying book, which provides additional helpful context and supporting arguments, though the key elements of the book are actually summarised well in the Leader’s notes.
There were a few mutterings along the way that some of the questions were a bit hard to understand, but a peek at the Leader’s notes usually brings the needed clarity.
Given the weighty nature of Romans, each of the studies covers some challenging territory, so group members doing their ‘homework’ in advance pays dividends to the quality of discussion and fellowship. We took 90 minutes over each session (including time for prayer at the end), and found it a bit of a squeeze, given the need to give sufficient time to discuss the difficult bits sufficiently, to ensure that no-one was left behind in Paul’s exposition of the key truths of justification by faith, God’s wrath, propitiation and being united with Christ (to name a few).
The only niggle I had with Tim Keller was the side-stepping of baptism in chapter six. I presume that reflected his presbyterian heritage but, if you can forgive him that, he remains an excellent guide to unlocking these first seven chapters of Romans and enjoying the “gift of God” that comes form being in a right relationship with a holy God.
