The primary goal of BBR is to encourage individuals to use their own Bibles when they come to Church for study and education.  How is it possible to come to church and not even open one’s Bible?  But it happens all too frequently! 

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The lessons are based on short study sections of the book chapters.  Every effort has been made to provide easy and challenging questions to reach all audiences.  Further, most lessons focus on a specific key concept in the text that involves cross-biblical research study to get a well-rounded concept of the topic.  The teacher lessons have suggested answers, often with supporting textual references.

 

Lessons are kept to 2 pages for printing out or copying as a back-to-back, single-page product, and they are intended to run about 45 minutes in length.  Copy/print off as many as you need for your class.  The English Standard Version (ESV), ranked by Christian Book Distributors (CBD) as a reliable word-for-word translation similar to the New American Standard Bible (NASB), is the Biblical text for the lessons.  For emphasis, sometimes the layout and paragraph breaks have been tweaked by the author.  References to God and Jesus are also capitalized as an author preference (He, Him, You, etc…). 

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Broadly speaking, summary review lessons have been created for every 5-10 lessons for each book study.   These have been used as a regular lesson in the series to reemphasize key points presented in previous content.  Use them as discussion starters; I often found it took two lesson sessions to complete the review.  Alternatively, you can hand out review summaries after the last study of the review for members to read on their own, and teach only the content lessons, but that is not the recommendation.

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In Christian Education (Sunday School or Bible Study), four possible presentation methods should be considered based on the knowledge and responsibleness of your class attendees: 

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1) With knowledgeable members, the original idea was to allow 20-25 minutes of self-study around the tables, followed by 20-25 minutes of class discussion.  (During self-study time, we often played Christian music without lyrics softly in the background.)

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2) With responsible members, next week's lesson can be handed out for completion at home during the week, giving 45 minutes time for classroom discussion when you meet together again. 

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3)  With some capable members, assign the questions at class beginning and allow 5-7 minutes’ quiet time for answering, followed by group discussion working through all the Qs.

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4)  With mostly new and less knowledgeable members, it may be best to go down the page together, reading notes and Bible references to come to an answer for the various questions.

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Choose the method that best serves your audience!