Young Adult Studies

All Wednesday evening Bible studies at St James are small group based and meet around tables in various halls.

Mark's Gospel

The evening offers all the benefits of small group discussion, fellowship and prayer. It is our prayer that as you go through the study you will be excited and challenged by the message of the Gospel and its implications for our lives.

One of the lessons we hope you will learn is the value of studying the passage before coming to the group study. Each study has a few questions to help you get to the heart of the passage. Usually, the last question will ask you to think through the implications of the passage for us today. Think hard about these questions as we believe that any Bible study should result in changed lives.

As you study Mark’s Gospel we hope that you will learn much about how to study the bible more effectively. Included will be a number of study tips to give you a head start when approaching a passage.

Romans

This is for all those who have previously studied Mark.

In Romans we will learn that the apostle Paul is writing to the church in Rome, to Christians with an international reputation for their faith and obedience (1:8, 16:19), yet his message to them is no more than the gospel of salvation; he boldly reminds them of what they already know (15:15). He explains his relationship to this message: both his God-given role of proclaiming it to the Gentiles and his particular commitment to the Romans in this regard.

Thus, although close study of the letter will reveal secondary emphases, it appears that Paul's purpose in writing is that Christians might fully understand the gospel that has saved them and the implication is that naturally, we don't.

Bible Overview

This study is an overview of the whole Bible, both Old and New Testament. In this study we look at the Bible’s account of God and His plan for eternity which begins with God’s creation of the world. The world we encounter in Genesis 1 & 2 is a good world – a world which is exactly as God wanted it to be. However, the world we live in is very far removed from God’s design and Genesis 3 with its account of human rebellion explains why this is the case. Thus, in this study we focus briefly on Genesis 1-3 to understand God’s original plan and what has gone wrong and as we work through the Bible we will end the study looking briefly at Revelation 21 & 22, where we discover what the future is – the outcome of God’s gracious work to overturn the effects of our rebellion.