The Houston Bible Study February Meetup

We're continuing studying the Gospel of John, still in Chapter one! Please read the following before you come. Hope to see you!

People interested to study the Bible come from so many different backgrounds. The main thing we have in common is an interest in Scripture. Therefore, let's look at the text in the Gospel of John. All you need is an interest to read and discuss the Gospel of John and a willingness to respect a few ground rules:

-- a sincere interest in the text
-- equal time to everyone who wants to share their opinions about the text, with restraint from preaching or arguing
-- please self-monitor to make sure you don't dominate the conversation by talking more than five minutes straight
-- respect for others' interpretations and for the facilitator
-- openess to looking solely at the text with no references to commentaries of scholars/preachers; please do not make copies of other peoples'/scholars' interpretations to pass around or read aloud to the group the interpretation in your Bible. Just read the text for yourself and formulate your own thoughts about it
-- feel okay about not making this a prayer time (we won't be praying for one another during this time)
-- be all right with not delving into complex issues that require a lot of time to figure out, such as look uping translations or reading long secondary passages that explain the main text. (Feel free to look into such issues after the study, boil them down, distill them and share briefly with the group your findings at the beginning of the following study . . . please share verbally, not with copies or other materials)
-- We'll try to keep a good pace of reading, sharing, reading further, sharing further . . .
-- Please refrain from ordering alcohol as we could have recovering alcoholics join the study

I'll provide copies of the text. You don't have to bring a Bible.

Hope to see you!!!