Master the Bible: How to Get and Keep the Big Picture of the Bible's Story

Chapter 1 The Way of the Rabbi

Objectives Welcome to Chapter 1, The Way of the Rabbi ! This study will focus on understanding Jesus as our Rabbi and Teacher, and how we ought to learn from and follow him as our Master today. After your reading, study, discussion, and application of the materials in this chapter, you will be able to:

• Understand Jesus as our Rabbi and Teacher, and respond obediently to his call to discipleship.

• Recall the elements of Jesus’ ministry as our Teacher, and the role of the Holy Spirit in helping us understand the Word of God. • Affirm the importance of knowing God and walking with him in order to comprehend and master the message of the Scripture.

• Accept the power of Scripture memorization as the central means of continuing and abiding in the Word of Christ.

• Commit to a consistent program of Scripture memorization as a sign of your own discipleship in Christ.

Overview This lesson concentrates on our need to understand the ancient practice of the rabbi and his disciples. This is the method of that period which Jesus used to equip and establish his own disciples during his earthly ministry. We will also see that this is the method the apostles employed to raise up a generation of leaders who contended for the faith and spread the Good News of Jesus Christ throughout the world. This way of the rabbi is the school of dis cipleship that Jesus calls his followers today to enter into and to walk.

13