Deepening Your Roots in God's Family: A Course in Personal Discipleship to Strengthen Your Walk with God
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Dig into Scripture to deepen your relationships with God and others. Watch the seeds of prayer and evangelism begin to take root in you. You’ll nurture these practices in your daily life as you work through the Bible studies and training materials in Deepening Your Roots in God’s Family. Combined with the skills you learned in book one of The 2:7 Series, you’ll see prayer and evangelism begin to bear fruit for you and the relationships in your life.
What is The 2:7 Series?
The 2:7 Series is discipleship training with a proven track record. Each installment leads participants through the fundamentals of discipleship to strengthen your walk with God.
- Book One: Growing Strong in God’s Family
- Book Two: Deepening Your Roots in God’s Family
- Book Three: Bearing Fruit in God’s Family
- Bible studies to ground your faith
- Bible reading practices to foster consistent habits
- Helpful illustrations to inform your outlook
- In-depth teaching on evangelism and prayer to grow a vibrant faith
- Scripture memory guides to make God’s Word your own
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Deepening Your Roots in God's Family - The Navigators
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ISBN-13: 978-1-61521-638-3
Some of the anecdotal illustrations in this book are true to life and are included with the permission of the persons involved. All other illustrations are composites of real situations, and any resemblance to people living or dead is coincidental.
Unless otherwise identified, all Scripture quotations in this publication are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version® (
NIV
®). Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved. Other versions used include: the Holy Bible, New Living Translation (
NLT
), copyright © 2004. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved; the New American Standard Bible® (
NASB
), Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission; The New Testament in Modern English (
PH
), J. B. Phillips Translator, © J. B. Phillips 1958, 1960, 1972, used by permission of Macmillan Publishing Company; The Living Bible (TLB), copyright © 1971, used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, IL 60189, all rights reserved; The Holy Bible, New Century Version (
NCV
), copyright © 1987, 1988 by Word Publishing, Dallas, TX 75039. Used by permission; and the King James Version (
KJV
).
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT
We are grateful for the dedicated efforts of Ron Oertli, who originated the concept of T
HE 2:7
S
ERIES
and is its principal author. Ron is also the key person responsible for this updated edition. This discipleship training approach began in Denver in 1970 and continues to be highly effective in many places around the world.
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CONTENTS
MY COMPLETION RECORD
SESSION 1
Reviewing the Goals of Book 1 in T
HE
2:7 S
ERIES
Scripture Memory Guide — Week 1
The TMS in Book 2
Bible Study in Book 2
Principles for Memorizing Scripture
Practical Suggestions on Prayer
SESSION 2
Scripture Memory Guide — Week 2
Scripture Memory Principles Quiz
Maturing in Christ (Bible Study)
SESSION 3
Scripture Memory Guide — Week 3
Relationship Evangelism
Spiritual Warfare (Bible Study)
SESSION 4
Scripture Memory Guide — Week 4
Faith and the Truths of God (Bible Study)
SESSION 5
Scripture Memory Guide — Week 5
Self-Checking Quiz
Knowing God’s Will (Bible Study)
SESSION 6
Scripture Memory Guide — Week 6
Suggestions for Developing Friendships with Non-Christians
Walking as a Servant (Bible Study)
SESSION 7
Congratulations!
Why Prepare My Story
Preparing My Story
General Comments
The Grape Illustration
Effective My Story
Preparation
Two Ways You Might Organize Your Story
Choosing Your My Story
Format
The Session 8 Workshop
SESSION 8
Scripture Memory Guide — Week 8
SESSION 9
Lead-In to My Story
Ways to Close My Story
My Heart — Christ’s Home, by Robert Boyd Munger
Discuss My Heart — Christ’s Home
SESSION 10
Suggestions for Your Extended Time with God
How to Spend a Day in Prayer, by Lorne C. Sanny
Highlights and Applications
Ways to Stay Awake and Alert
Making a Worry List
Checklist for Your Extended Time with God
Sample of Note-Taking During an Extended Time with God
SESSION 11
Extended Time with God
The Challenge Continues . . .
A Preview of Book 3
APPENDIX
NOTES
MY COMPLETION RECORD
As you complete each item, ask someone in your group to sign off for that item with his or her initials and the calendar date.
ABBREVIATIONS FOR BIBLE VERSIONS
Unless otherwise identified, all Scripture quotations in this publication are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version (
NIV
). You can refer to this list when you encounter unfamiliar Bible version abbreviations.
• (
AMP
) The Amplified Bible
• (
ESV
) English Standard Version
• (
KJV
) King James Version
• (
MLB
) Modern Language Bible: The Berkeley Version in Modern English
• (
MSG
) The Message
• (
NASB
) New American Standard Bible
• (
NCV
) New Century Version
• (
NIV
) New International Version
• (
NKJV
) New King James Version
• (
NLT
) New Living Translation
• (
NRSV
) New Revised Standard Version
• (
PH
) The New Testament in Modern English (J. B. Phillips)
SESSION 1
OUTLINE OF THIS SESSION
1. Open the session in prayer.
2. Go over "Reviewing the Goals of Book 1 in T
HE 2:7
S
ERIES
" (pages 9–10).
3. Preview book 2 by looking over My Completion Record (pages 7–8).
4. Will you memorize in the same translation you used in book 1?
5. Survey Scripture Memory Guide — Week 1
(pages 10–11).
6. Read aloud The TMS in Book 2
and Bible Study in Book 2
(pages 11–12).
7. Read and discuss Principles for Memorizing Scripture
(page 13).
8. Discuss Practical Suggestions on Prayer
(pages 14–15). Locate prayer sheets at the end of this book (pages 141–146).
9. Read Assignment for Session 2
(page 16).
10. Close the session in prayer.
REVIEWING THE GOALS OF BOOK 1 IN THE 2:7 SERIES
The goals of book 1 were:
1. To enjoy Bible reading by:
a. Using a contemporary translation or paraphrase
b. Using a method of Bible marking
2. To successfully memorize the five key Scripture memory verses contained in Beginning with Christ and to have the option of memorizing an outreach verse
3. To experience more consistent and meaningful quiet times by:
a. Combining meaningful Bible reading and prayer
b. Succeeding in having seven consecutive quiet times during the course
c. Recording daily quiet time thoughts on a My Reading Highlights page
4. To study and discuss The Wheel Illustration
5. To study and discuss Tyranny of the Urgent
6. To understand the value of The Wheel and The Hand Illustrations
7. To come to a deeper conviction about reasons for memorizing Scripture and to identify possible hindrances to doing well in Scripture memory
8. To establish an evangelism prayer list
SCRIPTURE MEMORY GUIDE — WEEK 1
EXCERPTS FROM THE TOPICAL MEMORY SYSTEM (TMS)
You Can Memorize Scripture!
Your Memory Is Good. Do you think you have a poor memory? Wait a minute. What’s your address and phone number? How about all that information you know by heart about your job? How about all the people you call by name? Or the facts and figures you can recite about your favorite sport or hobby? You see, your memory is really pretty good after all. Anything is easy to memorize when you are really interested in it, or use it often.
Attitude Makes the Difference. A good memory is not something you either have or don’t have. It is a skill, and like other skills it can be improved. Attitude can make the difference. Adopt an attitude of confidence in Scripture memory and it will help your memory work.
Count on God’s Help. Here’s some additional encouragement: You can count on God to help you memorize Scripture, for He wants His Word to be in the hearts of His children. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts
(Deuteronomy 6:6); let the word of Christ dwell in you richly
(Colossians 3:16).
Why the Topics?
In book 1, you learned the topics and references as well as the verses. Here in book 2, you will do the same.
Two important reasons for knowing the topics of verses you memorize are:
1. The topics help you understand the verses and make them easier to memorize and review.
2. The topics give you mental hooks with which to draw a particular verse from memory when you need it. They help you call the right verse to mind when meditating, witnessing, counseling, doing Bible study, or preparing a talk.
So familiarize yourself with the Live the New Life
topics on page 11 and learn each topic along with the verses.
Scripture Memory Helps in Book 2
The weekly Scripture memory guides in this course help in four areas:
1. How we can memorize Scripture verses more easily
2. How to apply the verses to our lives
3. How to review them so we can have them at our fingertips
4. How to continue memorizing Scripture after finishing this course
THE TMS IN BOOK 2
As you may know, NavPress publishes a Scripture memory course called the Topical Memory System (TMS). (Over the next few years you might choose to complete the TMS). The whole course contains sixty verses grouped into five major topics:
Each topic (A through E) has six subtopics. All the verses