Jesus, Continued - Bible Study Book: Why The Spirit inside You Is Better Than Jesus Beside You

Jesus, Continued - Bible Study Book includes a small-group experience for eight sessions, individual study opportunities for each day of the week, applicable Scripture, a personal note from author J.D. Greear, “How To Use This Study,” and a group discussion guide. Back matter includes some tips for the leader.

Why do so many of us think of Christianity as a lifestyle to which we conform, rather than a God with whom we commune? Jesus gave His disciples the audacious promise that it was to their advantage that He go back to heaven because the Holy Spirit could then come to live inside of them. How many of us consider our connection to the Holy Spirit so strong and so real that we would call his presence in us better than Jesus beside us?

Throughout his Christian life, J.D. Greear felt disconnected to God and unsure about how to interact with Him. Although he had learned a lot of truths about God, these truths didn't seem to bring him any closer to Him. He tried to have such a relationship, but all of God’s work seemed stockpiled in the past: He created the world, died on a cross, and left a Bible. God seemed like a busy teacher who had given an assignment and then stepped out of the room, leaving students to get the work done on their own.

But Greear discovered it doesn’t have to be like that. And this Bible study has been created to help you relate to the Holy Spirit in new ways. Over the course of this study, you’ll see how you can have a satisfying, powerful relationship with God through the Holy Spirit. Sessions include:

1. Why "God in Us" is Better
2. The Gospel of God's Presence 
3. Surrendered to the Spirit for Mission
4. You are Gifted
5. The Spirit Shepherd 
6. Hearing the Spirit Speak
7. When God Seems Absent
8. God's Greatest Gift

Features:

• Biblically rooted and gospel-centered content
• Leader tips
• Eight-session Bible Study Book with group and personal components

Benefits:

• Replace guilt-driven missional living with gift-driven empowered living
• Overcome the paralysis of indecision by experiencing God’s promised presence
• Leave the stale and dry doctrinally driven faith for a fresh and dynamic Spirit-driven faith

J.D. Greear is lead pastor of The Summit Church, a multi-site congregation in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina. He holds an M.Div. in International Church Planting and a Ph.D. in Systematic Theology from the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. Greear also lived and worked among Muslims in Southeast Asia for two years and wrote Breaking the Islam Code. He and his wife have four children.