These materials are provided at no cost to help you in your Bible Study.  If you are not a member of Aversboro Rd Baptist Church you are asked to notify Dr Jim Funck that you are using them (jfunck@arbc-garner.org).

Adults today can gain much greater insight into how God wants us to live when teachers challenge learners to use critical thinking skills in Bible study.  This was originally printed on www.lifeway.com.

A large church doesn't have to be impersonal.

A look at the transition from the physical life on earth to the spiritual life in heaven.  A diagram is presented as a best guess representation of this transition.

10 ways for a growth minded class to realize growth.   This was originally printed on www.LifeWay.com.

A simple step-by-step guide for enlisting ministry workers.

A Bible Study class is more than an academic environment.

Harry Piland shares his views on big Sunday School classes.  This was originally printed in a LifeWay Christian Resources publication.

Title: Lord's Supper
Aim: The learner will describe the meaning of the Lord's Supper and what a "worthy manner" is for paretaking in this observance.

Title: What's My Gift
Aim: Using the physical body as an example, the learner will describe the concept of Spiritual gifts and interdependence within the church and its impact on teh ministry of the church.

Title: The More Central Way
Aim: The learner will evaluate himself on how effectively he relates to and with others and identify one area he will work on during the following week.

Title: Belonging Together
Aim: Believing that we are better together in relation to all of life, the learner will describe and illustrate how a person in a loving fellowship will show convincing love actions toward another.

Title - Acting Like Men
Aim - The Learners will describe what it is like to act like a man.

Title - The Spirit Provides Wisdom
Aim - The learner will contrast the wisdom of man and God defining how to live life in the wisdom of God.

Title: Be Pure / Is My Life Pure
Aim: The learner will contrast the moral and immoral life expaining why we should live a morally pure life.

Title: Trusting GOd / Am I Right With God
Aim: The Learner will illustrate the responsibility of saving faith.

Title: Encouraged by Sure Salvation
Aim: The learner will write a statement of assurance of their salvation and develop a practical life checklist giving them life evidence regarding this salvation.

Title: Courage To Know God
Aim: The Learner will identify courageous steps believers must take to help others know that the Lord is God.

Title: Act Right
Aim: The learner will discover evidences of God's holiness and evaluate the holiness growth in their life.

Title: Hope That Lives
Aim: The learner will describe the characteristics of the hope that Christ brings to the life of a believer.

Title: Take Courage
Aim: The learner will evaluate their readiness to stand for Christ.

Title: God Chooses and Equips / Can God Use Me?
Aim: The learner will describe how a believer lives in readiness waiting on the Lord's call for service.

Title: God Empowers / How Can I Survive
Aim: The learner will define how s/he can rely on God's power when they experience a difficult situation.

Title: Hannah: Determined Devotion
Aim: The learner will, using Hannah as a model, describe characteristics of Godly devotion.

Title: God Works in His Time / Can God be Trusted?
Aim:   The Learners will explain the trust in God displayed by David and identify one area of their life they will put under God's control.

Title: Live To Please God
Aim: The learner will identify practical everyday actions in life he can carry out that are pleasing to God.

Title: Church Leadership
Aim: The learner will describe a biblically qualified church leader and evaluate themselves against that criteria.

Title: Living Free
Aim: The learner will define and describe what freedom in Christ means and would look like in contemporary life.

Title: The Grace of Giving
Aim: The learner will analyze the basis for giving and describe attitudes that will help them develop the practice of generous giving.

Title: How I Give / How Should I Give?
Aim: The learner will discover proper attitudes for giving and evaluate themselves against these attitudes.

Title: Promises To Generous Givers
Aim: The learner will evaluate the promises of God related to giving and choose one to rely on.

Title: God Values Human Life / Can I overcome My Failures
Aim: The learner will describe how he changes his value of people, based on situations in his life, evaluating the impact of this on one's life.

Title: Working For God
Aim: The learner will define God's expectation of the way we will serve Him and evaluate themselves against these expectations.

Title: Timothy: Faith Keeps God First
Aim: The learner will identify the elements that make up a strong, enduring lifestyle of faith and evaluate their life against this standard.

Title: The More Central Way
Aim: The learner will evaluate himself on how effective he relates to and with others and identify one area he will work on during the following week.

Title: Care Enough To Show It
Aim: The learner will evaluate the events surrounding the feeding of the five thousand and develop a procedure for conducting ministry.

Title: Belong Together
Aim: Believing that we are better together in relation to all of life, the learner will describe and illustrate how a person in a loving fellwoship will show convincing love actions toward another.

Title: Can I Keep a Secret?
Aim: The learner will describe their assignment in Christ and develop a list of ways to fulfill that assignment.

Title: Lydia: Willing Service
Aim: The learner will, using Lydia as a model, describe characteristics of Godly devotion.

Title: Rally to be changed by Jesus
Aim: The learner will describe what it is like to walk by the spirit in faith and not by human abilities.

Title: maximizing God-Given Opportunity
Aim: The learner will evaluate Paul's use of opportunities for ministry.

Title: You Have a Mission
Aim: The learner will idenitfy Jesus' mission to our earth and the correlation of our mission on this earth to Jesus' mission on this earth.

Title: Empowered to Witness
Aim: The learner will describe what they need to feel like an empowered witness.

Title: What's Happening To Me? / Being Changed By The Gospel
Aim: The learner will develop a personal statement describing how their life has been changed by the Gospel of Christ and make a commitment to share this change with someone within the next week.

Title: Baptism
Aim: The learner will describe the significance of baptism to the Christian life.

Title: What's In It For Me?
Aim: The Learner will describe how God works in meeting the needs of a person.

Title: Why Be Bold
Aim: The learner will identify bold actions for the Lord and be challenged to improve their boldness for the Lord.

Title: Paul: Total Commitment
Aim: The learner will evaluate their level of commitment to the Lord and describe how they could demonstrate a greater level of commitment.

Title: Discerning Truth
Aim: The learner will describe why they should stay true to the teachings of jesus and make a commitment to those teachings.

Title: Maintaining a Healthy Focus
Aim: The learner will describe what a heavenly focus in life is and why it is important to maintain such a focus.

Title: Work matters
Aim: The learner will explain the relationship of their work and spiritual lives, defining a biblical work ethic.

Title: Daniel: Faith Refuses to Compromise
Aim: The learner will evaluate the character of daniel idenitfying traits that reflect a strong devotion to God and discussing actions that would make for a Christian life of integrity.

Title: What's In The way / Dead End Ahead
Aim: The learner will identify dead end paths that people take in life and commit to following Jesus.

Title: Put First Things First
Aim: The learner will outline why and how man should fear God in their life.

Title: Understanding God's Eternal Plan
Aim: The learner will outline God's plan for producing holiness in a believer's life and evaluate their personal progress.

Title: Am I Right With Others / Loving Spouses
Aim: The learner will identify a criteria for effective relationship with others (spouses) and evaluate their relationships from this criteria.

Title: Waging War
Aim: The learner will define principles of spiritual warfare and evaluate his or her use of these principles.

Title: I Will Follow God's Leading
Aim: The learner will describe things to look for that can be labeled as God's leading through Life.

Title: I Will Obey God's Commandments
Aim: The Learners will explain the personal benefits to exclusively worshipping God and living his life consistent with God's character.

Title: Protecting Human Life / Os All Life Important
Aim: The learner will establish a relationship between living for God and God working in and through one's life.

Title: Desiring To Know God Better
Aim: The Learner will describe why he should seek to know God and idenitfy how he will do this.

Title: I Will Trust in God's Purpsoe & Power
Aim: The Learner will identify personal fears that inhibit them from moving forward in God's purpose and power.

Title: Affirm God's Good Plan
Aim: The learner will idenitfy the good plan God created for mankind.

Title: Sin, Who Cares Anyway?
Aim: The learner will answer the question, "Why should I be concerned about my sin?

Title: God Creates Adam & Eve
Aim: The learner will describe how God provided for Adam and how He provides for us today.

Title: Admit Your Sin Problem
Aim: The learner will idenitfy personal sins and ocnfess them to God.

Title: Aspire To Walk With God
Aim: The learner will identify spiritual disciplines and commit to initiate or carry on disciplines that will help them maintain an intimate walk with God.

Title: God Allows Us To Choose
Aim: The learner will identify situations that depend upon choices that facilitate living in fellowship with the Lord.

Title: Trusting God
Aim: The learner will describe ways they can show, in everyday life, that they are trusting God.

Title: Believe God
Aim: The learner will affirm that God is a promise keeper.

Title: Do You Care About Others?
Aim: The learner will describe the imporatance of believers praying for the spiritual welfare of others.

Title: Decide To Obey God
Aim: The learner will pledge to obey God without question.

Title: Leave a Godly Legacy
Aim: The learner will identify actions they could take to ensure a Christian legacy in their family.

Title: Do You Seek The Lord's Guidance?
Aim: The learner will suggest practical ways to seek God's guidance in carrying out life's tasks.

Title: Do You Help or Exploit?
Aim: The learner will describe how they can be a helper to those they have negative feelings toward.

Title: Responding To God With Faith / Beginning To Become
Aim: The learner will describe a positive response to an encounter with God and identify why it is so important that this kind of response be given.

Title: Learning God's Faithfulness
Aim: The learner will idenitfy how God was faithful in his life as well as Jacob's life, expressing thanks to God.

Title: Growing Spiritually Through Relational Crisis
Aim: By reviewing a situation in the life of Jacob and Esau the learner will describe a guidance plan for healing relationships.

Title: Improving Sibling Relationships / Can I Be a Better Sibling?
Aim: By reviewing a situation in the life of Jacob and Esau the learner will identify a multi-step plan for healing relationships.

Title: When Others Hate You
Aim: The learner will describe how they can practice their faith even when doing so may create adversity.

Title: When Temptation Comes
Aim: The learner will idenitfy a practical way they can resist the temptation to sin especially when there is a cost involved.

Title: When Presented With Challenging Tasks
Aim: The learner will develop an approach for carrying out challenging tasks.

Title: Remaining Faithful
Aim: The learner will describe how (s)he can remain faithful to Christ throughout their life.

Title: God Offers New Opportunities
Aim: The learner will compare mankind's new beginning with his original beginning, identifying truths for starting over.

Title: Await God's Timing
Aim: The learner will describe the concept of "God's Timing" and explain the concept of "Living by Faith."

Title: Commitment
Aim: The learder will identify ways that they can implement to make God's work a priority for them.

Title: Here Purpose Begins
Aim: The learner will describe man's purpose in life and define the resources necessary for accomplishing that purpsoe.

Title: Jesus: Our High Priest
Aim: The learner will describe how Jesus is the ideal High Priest for us and encourage their acknowledgement of this in their life.

Title: Live in Relationship, Not Rebellion
Aim: The learner will describe what a right relationship with God looks like and evaluate their life by this standard.

Title: Responding to God's Holiness
Aim: The learner will acknowledge God's holiness and identify at least two ways they can apprpriately respond to God's holiness.

Title: Needed: Real faith / What is Real Faith?
Aim: The learner will illustrate how someone might idenitify themselves as a Christian.

Title: Impartial Love / How Does Real faith Relate?
Aim: The learner will describe the affects of the spirit of partiality on the Christian life and evaluate their own life for indications of partiality.

Title: Submitting To God
Aim: The learner will develop a definition of humble submission and describe how this would look for them personally.

Title: Disciplined Prayer / What is Prayer
Aim: The learner will identify qualities that when implemented in one's life will make them an effective pray-er.

Title: When Will I serve
Aim: The learner will acknowledge that he/she is to serve God both generally and specifically and to depend upon Him to equip him/her for that service.

Title: What If I'm Uncertain
Aim: The learner will explain the origin of doubt and discouragement in believers and suggest ways to deal with these negative emotions.

Title: What Is My Part?
Aim: The learner will describe what they know about God's plan for their life and commit to follow it to the best of their ability.

Title: Look To God For Wisdom
Aim: The learner will describe God as the only source of true wisdom.

Title: Appropriating God's Mercy
Aim: The Learner will explain how a person goes about appropriating the mercy of God for their life.

Title: Recognizing Real Life
Aim: The learner will describe and illustrate real life.

Title: Welcome The Light
Aim: The learner will identify what they can tell a lost person about Jesus.

Title: Welcome The Light / Accept God's Promised Savior
Aim: The learner will identify what they can tella lost person about Jesus.

Title: Confess Jesus, God's Son
Aim: The learner will make a confession of faith regarding Jesus' superiority, redemptive work, and His deity.

Title: Announcing Jesus, The Source for New Life / How Can I Share Him?
Aim: The learner will determine who in their life would be the most likely people to share the Gospel with.

Title: Resources For Praying
Aim: The learner will describe how Jesus is the source and resource for our life needs, including prayer.
Living Prayer #6

Title: Jesus Takes Care of Us
Aim: The learner will describe from personal experiences how Jesus has provided for, protected, sustained and knows them.

Title: A Life of Abundance

Title: The Resurrection & The Life
Aim: The learner will explain what Jesus' statement of being the "the resurrection and the life" means to their everyday life.

Title: Jesus Our King / Who's In Charge Here?
Aim: The Learner will declare Jesus as the King of Kings and Lords of Lords.

Title: Knowing God Through Jesus
Aim: The learner will explain how believing in Jesus is the only way to believe in God the Father and experience His salvation.

Title: The Spirit Continues Jesus' Work
Aim: The Learner will describe the work of the Holy Spirit in the life of people.

Title: Jesus: Our Sacrifice / Why Did Jesus Die?
Aim: The learner will describe the significance of Jesus sacrifice in light of the forgiveness of his or her sins.

Title: Jesus Is Alive!
Aim: The learner will express an attitude of gratitude to celebrate a new life in Christ.

Title: Life Begins At Reception
Aim: The learner will describe the roles of the Trinity in spiritual birth and relate these roles to their own salvation experience.

Title: Jesus Opens Eyes
Aim: The learner will describe a personal experience of how Jesus opened their eyes to a new spiritual understanding.

Title: Why Care?
Aim: The learner will identify barriers in and around their life that hinder their involvement in sharing Christ with others.

Title: Who Me?  A Leader?
Aim: The learner will describe what is expected of successful leaders God calls.

Title: Pass on The Baton
Aim: The learner will review Joshua's final speech to the Israelites, developing principles for passing leadership to their children.

Title: The Agony of Defeat
Aim: The learner will evaluate Joshua's leadership concerning the defeat of Ai, making application ofwhat they find to their life.

Title: Encouraged by Enduring Love / Who Loves You?
Aim: The learner will illustrate the enduring love of God in a way that helps them to remember its everlasting quality.

Title: Christ Has Come
Aim: The learner will analyze the witness and character of Simeon and Anna and develop a statement about their personal witness.

Title: The Act of Christmas
Aim: The learner will describe how the act of Christmas breeds hope in their lives.

Title: Savior For All
Aim: The learner will decide to make a positive response to the birth of Jesus.

Title: Praise Jesus, Our Savior / Why Praise Him?
Aim: The learner will identify reasons to praise Jesus and develop a corporate time of praise.

Title: Finding New Purpose
Aim: The learner will describe the life purpose of a believer and identify things they can do to help fulfill this purpose.

Title: Showing Love
Aim: The learner will describe Jesus' love for them using action verbs and identify one action they will take because of their love for Jesus.

Title: Money Matters
Aim:   The learner will illustrate how they can develop an attitude of becoming "rich toward God."

Title: Benefits of Praying Without Ceasing
Aim: The learner will describe the benefits that persistent praying brings to his life.
Living Prayer #5

Title: Releasing the Power of God Through Prayer
Aim: The Learner will describe the appropriate relationship toward God a praying Christian displays.
Living Prayer - Lesson #2

Title: Honor Christ
Aim: The learner will explain why he/she should honor Christ in and through his/her life and how he/she can practically do this.

Title: You Have a Motive
Aim: The learner will explain what Jesus offered in His crucifixion, contrast the responses of those around Him with their own, and profess their need to share Christ with others.

Title: You Have A Risen Lord
Aim: The learner will describe how the hope tyhey have, as a result of believing in Jesus Christ as their risen Lord, helps them share a testimony of Jesus to others.

Title: Celebrate Christmas
Aim: The learner will share how Christ meets a need in their life and give a description of how this makes them feel.

Title: Celebrate Christmas
Aim: The learner will share how Christ meets a need in their life and give a description of how this makes them feel.

Title: Put Christ First
Aim: The learner will analyze the hindrances to commited discipleship and evaluate the level of their own discipleship.

Title: Live Honorably
Aim: The learner will establish a relationship between the keeping of one's obligations and one's relationship with God.

Title: Worship Appropriately
Aim: The learner will define what is appropriate worship and illustrate it in a contemporary setting.

Title: God Wants Us To Value Everyone
Aim: The learner will describe how Jesus valued Bartimaeus and identify what they can do to reflect a greater valuing of people in their life.

Title: Desiring Deliverance
Aim: The learner will acknowledge that they deal with sinful thoughts and deeds in their life and outline how they can get help for these wronmg actions.

Title: Care Enough To Show It
Aim: The learner will evaluate the events surrounding the feeding of the five thousand and develop a procedure for conducting ministry.

Title: Jesus: More Than A Prophet / Was Jesus a Prophet
Aim: The learner will declare Jesus as the Messiah and th4e only one to which we are to repent and exercise faith in.

Title: God's Unique Son
Aim: The learner will describe what is involved in worship of jesus, God's Son.

Title: Making A Difference in The World
Aim: The learner will acknowledge their ambassadorship for jesus and brainstorm ways they can impact for Christ their spheres of influence.

Title: Strive For Godly Perfection
Aim:  The learner will describe God's standard for righteous living and validate this standard for humanity.

Title: How Should We Pray?
Aim: The learner will identify the various parts of prayer, describing how Jesus would have us to pray.
Living Prayer #3

Title: Always Trust Christ
Aim: The learner will answer the question, "In what can I always trust about Jesus when dealing with my life issues?"

Title: Hoping for Help
Aim: The learner will evaluate their level of faith in the ability of Jesus to handle their problems.

Title: Life Matters
Aim: The learner will describe how they will modify their daily actions in life to reflect a God valuing of all people.

Title: Take Part In Missions
Aim: The learner will develop a justification for mission action and a list of potential mission action projects they would like and could participate in.

Title: Watch Your Words
Aim: The learner will establish a relationship between what words come out of his/her mouth and hte spiritual condition of his/her heart.

Title: Know Jesus
Aim: The learner will describe their walk with Jesus and how He is transforming their life.

Title: Character Matters
Aim: The learner will define the origin of character and the influences that shape it and choose Godly influences to shape their character.

Title: Practice Genuine Purity
Aim: The learner will identify life actions that would be considered impure and make a commintment to remove them from their life.

Title: What is Church All About / Church Builder
Aim: The Learner will describe the significance of their involvement in the work/ministry of the church.

Title: A Place For All / Marriage & Divorce
Aim: The learner will explain God's view regarding divorce.

Title: Involved in Ministry
Aim: The learner will compile a list of possible ways they could help people in need.

Title: Be Involved
Aim: The learner will make a commitment of involvement in the mission of the kingdom.

Title: The God Who Punishes and Protects
Aim: The learner will list behaviors he can exhibit to avoid God's punishment and enjoy His protection.

Title: Encouraged by Redemptive Usefulness
Aim: The learner will describe ways of identifying God's will for their life.

Title: Caleb: Faith Endures
Aim: The learner will discover and explain what it means to live a life wholeheartedly devoted to God.

Title: Accepting God's Lordship
Aim: The learner will develop a statement that reflects their acceptance of Christ's lordship over their life.

Title: Get Growing
Aim: The learner will develop and use an instrument for evaluating their level of spiritual maturity, making a commitment to grow.

Title: Being Joyful
Aim: The learner will describe biblical joy and identify one way they can develop it in their life.

Title: Prayer, A Test of Our Spiritual Life
Aim: The learner will identify the purpose of a prayer life and the impact it can have on one's life, evaluating their life against these.
Living Prayer #4

Title: All I Need
Aim: The learner will give testimony of the way God has provided for their every need.

Title: God Rules
Aim: The learner will make a choice between a selection of commitments to the Lord.

Title: Prayer as a Foundation to the Christian Life
Aim: The Learner will introspectively define the "thirsting" they experience in their life and describe the praise of their lips.
Living Prayer Lesson #1

Title: God is Awesome!
Aim: The learner will describe God's relationship to him and his world in a prose of praise.

Title: Sanctity of Human Life
Aim: The Learner will describe the pre-born child as God knows him and make a statement about abortion.

INTRODUCTION

What On Earth Am I Here For - Part #1
Chapters 1-4

What On Earth Am I Here For - Part #2
Chapters 5-7

You Were Planned for God's PLeasure - Part #1
Chapter 8-10

You Were PLanned For God's Pleasure - Session #5
Chapters 11-14

You Were Formed For God's Family - Part #1
Chapters 15-18

You Were Formed For God's Family - Part #2
Chapters 19-21

You Were Created to Become Like Christ - Part #1
Chapters 22-25

You Were Created to Become Like Christ - Part #2
Chapters 26-28

You Were Shaped For Serving God - Part #1
Chapters 29-31

You Were Shaped for Serving God - Part #2
Chapters 32-35

You Were made For a Mission
Chapters 36-40

Title: Living The Blessed Life
Aim: The learner will describe what a spiritually blessed life consists of.

Title: Responding to Jesus
Aim: The learner will describe the names of Jesus and the human response they elicit.

Title: Encouraged by Knowing God
Aim: The learner will explain God's ever present condition in our life and describe how this is a source of encouragement.

Title: The Glorified Christ
Aim: The learner will identify the characteristics of Christ and explain how they motivate him to serve Christ.

Title: Confronted About My First Love
Aim: The learner will describe what needs to be overcome in our lives, based on this passage and how to realize this overcoming.

Title: Enduring hard Times in the Confidence of God
Aim: The Learner will describe God's answer to the difficulties and presecutions of living the Christian lifestyle by synthesizing background information with the passsage.

Title: Salty or Not
Aim: The learner will evaluate their life against the description of being "salt of the earth."

Title: Philadephia
Aim: The learner will explain the significance of the "open door" before them and the potential consequences if he doesn't go through it.

Title - The Holy Spirit Gives New Life
Aim - The Learner will explain how the Holy Spirit affects change in the life of the believer.

Title - The Spirit Empowers Believers
Aim - The learner will illustrate the power of the Holy Spirit in their life with at least one real life example.

Title : How Does One Engage in Worship
Aim : The learner will come to define worship as a lifestyle that one lives and not an activity one engages in.

Title: Why Me?
Aim: The learner will identify Paul's attitude toward the Gospel and then use it as a standard to evaluate their personal attitude toward the Gospel.

Title: Ruth: Gracious Caring
Aim: The learner will describe characterisitcs of Godly devotion and identify how they might make application to their life.

Title: Practice Integrity / Is My Life Different
Aim: The learner will describe what a life of Christian integrity would be like and evaluate themselves against this standard.

Title: Joy
Aim: The learner will idenitfy elements of their salvation they can and should rejoice over.

Title: Humility
Aim: The learner will identify practices they will begin or continue that facilite humbling themselves before God.

John 10:10

Jeremiah 29:1-14

Colossians 3:12-14