1. a week-by-week Bible study for 2017 week 13: Romans 4:13-25

2. Bible study time A gentle proposal

3. Today’s class Reading the text (What does it say?)
Explaining the text (What does it mean?)
Applying the text (So what?)
Personalizing the text (Now what?)
Table prayer time (How can we help?)

4. Condensed ESV outline Righteousness introduced (1:1-17)
Righteous wrath (1:18-3:20)
Saving righteousness (3:21-4:25)
Righteous freedom (5-8)
Righteousness  Jews (9-11)
Righteous living (12:1-15:13)
Paul’s closing (15:14-16:23)
Righteousness summarized (16:25-27)

5. Timeline of Abraham’s life
Gen 12: Called (75)
Gen 14: Lot/Melchizedek
Gen 15: God's covenant (first promise)
Gen 16: 10/11 years later, Hagar
Gen 17-18a: 13 years later, circumcision & son is (second) promised
Gen 21: Isaac is born (100)

6. dia

7. dia
nomos?

8. dia
pistis?

9. dia
pistis!

10. Condensed ESV outline Righteousness introduced (1:1-17)
Righteous wrath (1:18-3:20)
Saving righteousness (3:21-4:25)
Righteous freedom (5-8)
Righteousness  Jews (9-11)
Righteous living (12:1-15:13)
Paul’s closing (15:14-16:23)
Righteousness summarized (16:25-27)

11. Table prayer time See the “Weekly Update” at your table
Review and update prior prayer requests
Write down new prayer requests
Lean in, engage, and pray as a table
Clean up and move to the auditorium