Bible Marking Made Easy

Anyone can give a Bible study. It is so easy I can do it. Without any formal training or degree, I have been giving several weekly Bible studies for the last 16 years, resulting in nearly 200 or more baptisms. I simply go into people’s homes and open up the Bible and read it to them. It’s that easy. What I have been doing for the last 16 years anyone can do and should do! There is nothing special about me. If you can read this, then you already have all the skills and talents I have, and you can give a Bible study just as easily as I do if not better!

Let me show you how easy it is. Listed below are several Bible study topics. Each one can be chain referenced in your Bible. Let’s take the one titled “God’s Word” for example. In the back of your Bible write:

God’s Word=GW=2Peter 1:21

God’s word is the title of the study. “GW” is the abbreviation you will be using as you chain reference this study, and 2 Peter 1:21 is the first verse you will go to. You see that “What is the origin of the Scriptures” is the first question. You will go to 2 Peter 1:21 and write that question in the margin or where you have space, along with “GW John 17:17.” John 17:17 is the next verse you will go to. At John 17:17 you will write in the margin the question or point for that verse. Then you will write “GW” and the next verse and so on until you have referenced the last verse. One you come to the last verse you will want to write “endGW” so you will know that is the end of the study.

Once you have finished chain referencing the study for God’s Word, you can begin on your next topic. So the back of your Bible will begin to look like this:

  Next Topic =Abbreviation=Verse

1. Always ask for a decision at the end of each study. Let’s take the study, “God’s Word” again for example. You can ask your Bible student if they are willing to go by the Bible and Bible only, even above anything their pastor or friends or family tell them. Once you have that decision you now have it to fall back on. Let’s say for example that later you are studying with the same person about the Sabbath. They say to you, “My pastor tells me I no longer have to keep the Sabbath.” You now remind them of their previous decision to go by the Bible and not the pastor. This leads us to our second tip.

2. The first study you want to do, if possible is the “Gospel Presentation.” You want them to make a decision to accept Jesus as their Savior. The second presentation you want to do is “God’s Word.” This is important because you are now setting up the Bible as the rule book for all the rest of your studies together. Before continuing any more studies you want your student to clearly understand all the following studies and topics will not be about other people’s ideas or opinions, or human philosophy, but God’s Word. This leads us to the next tip.

3. Don’t worry about being good at debating God’s Word. Jesus never debated the Word with the Pharisees or Satan. He simply presented an “It is Written,” and left it at that. How could we do any more or better than Jesus?

4. Do all of your visiting and socializing before the study. At the end of the study have a prayer about the decision they have made on that topic. Politely leave immediately after the prayer, so they are left with the influence of your prayer and study, and not the football game or pie recipe you were talking to them about earlier.

5. Just do it! Don’t worry about your lack of knowledge or experience. Chances are good you already know more than me, and I have been doing this for years. I did not get started by going to a Bible study class, or any formal training. When I was 15 years old, I took my Bible and started going door to door offering Bible studies. The first family I studied with visited our church a couple weeks later. I had not known them before I knocked on their door as a 15 year old who had never given a study in his life. The only way I learned to give studies was by just doing it. Just do it!