Welcome our final session of the Advent Bible study! We hope this study has encouraged and challenged you over the month of December, and we can’t wait to hear what your takeaways are.
As a reminder, here’s how this will work:
- Each Friday, we’ll post a bonus video here on the blog, and we’ll have questions for you to answer in your group or in the comments section of the post. We hope these interactions will be both challenging and encouraging! This week, we’ll ask a few questions about your personal study from the Bible study book as well as our new video.
- We’ll also have a fun printable or activity for you each week along with a phone wallpaper of that week’s key verse.
- At the end of the post, we will let you know the personal study assignment to do for the next week in your Advent Bible study book. That’s it!
A note about the Bible study videos: We are excited to offer bonus video content for the Advent Bible study for a limited time. We will leave all the videos up until January 15, 2020, allowing some breathing room for those who join in late or miss a couple of weeks.
Have more questions? Check out our Online Bible Study FAQs.
Now that we’re all on the same page, let’s jump in to Session 5!
- Is there one thought or sentence that stuck out to you in this week’s video? What stood out and why?
- How has your understanding of Advent changed since starting this study?
- Which week of study resonated with you most? Why?
- How can you be a bearer of hope, peace, joy, and love to your community?
Once you’ve answered the questions above in your small group or in the comments section, here’s a fun printable for you to use this week! Our hope is that the questions below will help you reflect on the year and look forward to the year to come.
And, here’s a fun wallpaper of one last verse to carry you until the new year: 1 John 4:11-12. We hope it serves as a encouragement in being bearers of God’s love in the weeks ahead.
Thank you so much for joining us for our Advent study this year! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from LifeWay Women. 🙂
Will there be something similar to the 40 days of fasting/prayer from last Easter season?
We’re so glad you enjoyed the content we created for the Easter season in 2019. We don’t have plans to develop a new fasting/prayer plan for this year and hope to encourage people to revisit the previous plan. However, we are planning to do an online Bible study as a community during the Easter season and we would love for you to join us for that. We will be announcing those details in early February!
Thank you for doing this study for us! I learned mainly that I should not commit to a study during the Advent season, as it actually took my focus off of the season and what it means Biblically and on to “getting it done” as far as getting to and through the study pages, unfortunately. I know in the past I have been much more personally involved in the events that lead up to Christ’s birth in my Bible, and I felt unable to engage to that degree this year. Nothing against Lifeway or anyone else who found the study helpful, by any means… this is simply a personal feeling that applies only to my own study and pursuit of the Word. But again, *thank you* for providing these opportunities for us to engage in God’s Word! Many blessings to you all in the coming year (and years!) ahead!
I love that we are bearers of love, joy, peace and that we are to go out and be the bearers of these attributes of Christ. I think we easily forget that “we” are to be the bearers but what opportunity to share a His love, joy and peace by inviting others into our world.
Well, when we first started I really did not understand what Advent was other than there were candles lite each week in church for it. Now, I look at it as opportunity to be His love and to share His love with those around me. It’s such an opportunity to help and do for a stranger or a neighbor or the one passing you in the shop.
Gosh, I have loved each week but I think “Peace” jumped out and grabbed me because I was always searching for it and I just really had to lean in cause it’s already available for me. It was such a “wow” moment.
I am going to look for opportunities to be such an aroma for Christ and try not to miss an opportunity to be the blessing to those around me.
It’s been a great study! Thank you ladies! All the best for 2020!
I have enjoyed this study and will miss it. I look forward to hopefully more studies like this. It was a good length and was good for sharing with my small group as well. I found the crafts seemed pretty easy to do and I shared some with others which was nice as I am not very crafty.
Each year I focus on a word God gives me to learn more about and study. For the past couple of years He has been teaching me about peace. Not that I have arrived, but this study helped direct me to want to focus on loving others more in 2020. Thank you so much for your guidance and reminders of the fruit of the spirit. Abiding in the vine is the only way to gain any of these attributes. Clinging to Jesus more and more each year!
Thanks for all you do at Lifeway and I pray you will continue to have more studies like this all year, not just at Christmas. Great job!
This was a good lesson and I pray for its success. I really enjoyed staying focused on Jesus. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year too everyone!!!
Love in Christ to everyone!!!
Linda Douglas
I have really benefited from the responses of co-learners in this Bible Study. I agree with Lisa’s post. I am passive and need to be more intentional in sharing Christ, in partnership with HIm. Knowing my purpose and intentionally working with Him, and allowing Him to work through me to fulfill His purpose. Otherwise I waste a lot of time. It is easy to be distracted. God’s love empowers me to share His love with others. He has called us to be Light Bearers – of His hope, peace, love, and joy. To do so, I need to abide in Him through His Word and for me, time in intimate worship. Then, He will guide me. I want to be as Jenn Johnson in worship sings: “Let me be filled / Help me to love AND Mack Brock “I am loved” which you can hear on YouTube.
Thank you for sharing, Annie
The one over arching thing I learned while doing this study, is that I need to stop being passive and start being more Intentional in sharing the hope, peace, joy and love of Christ with others. I also need to remember that God is my partner in this and He is the one who will grow these attributes in others. I am not alone in this endeavor. As I leave the Christmas season, I will be praying for opportunities to come my way in which I can put what I have learned into practice. Thank you so much for another awesome Bible study. I’m looking forward to the next one with you all.