By your example and with easy-to-use tools, enable teachers and home group leaders to be expositors of the Word of God, bringing out and applying the essential messages of key Bible passages, (not by simply giving a running commentary or verse by verse paraphrase).

Help your people to study the Bible inductively, that is, by letting it speak for itself. They search out its truths on their own initiative before going to the commentaries or theology books.

Newer workers in training need specific direction for this: tell them what to look for (for example, this menu, following the sword icon, usually says what to find and where).

Your people should know, for example:

• How Joshua prepares us to launch big projects for the Lord.
• How Ruth helps a missionary's attitude, to bond with other people and their culture.
• How Proverbs helps us educate our children, and helps them to discipline themselves.
• How the Psalms help us to discern different types of prayers and worship forms.
• How the historical books help us to understand why political leaders behave/misbehave the way they do, and God's plan for Jesus to be the perfect King.
• How Exodus and Leviticus help us to see ways in which the ancient tabernacle and priestly service foreshadowed and illustrated the legal basis for the work of Christ.
• How the Prophets help us to understand Jesus' role as the supreme Prophet, eternal Word and Image of the invisible God.

Find in Acts 26:22-23 a similar suggestion that the Old Testament builds the foundations for Jesus' coming and ministry.

Find in Acts 17:10-12 an example of the good results of inductive Bible study.

Find in 2 Timothy 3:14-17 the value of studying Scripture, and its final purpose (v. 17).

T&M Student Activity Guide page 43a

To help your people relate by memory the flow of pivotal historical events in Scripture, T&M booklet Great Events.

For an introduction to, and general explanation of Bible books and key passages, use a Bible handbook, such as The New Bible Companion, Carl Laney.