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    Proverbs
    Proverbs
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    Proverbs

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    Knowledge may get your students pretty far in life, but it won’t be enough to get them through some of the daily challenges they will face as Christians. And it won’t help them grow in their faith. What students really need is God's wisdom, and for that there’s no better place to start than the book of Proverbs. Through engaging activities and thought-provoking questions that get right to the heart of Proverbs, your students will see that even though this book was written thousands of years ago, the instructions still apply to them. By the end of this study, your students will know how to answer questions that include: • How do I know what path to take? • What does God have to say about premarital sex? • How should I respond to money? • How should I treat other people? • How should I handle criticism?Written with the busy youth worker in mind, Studies on the Go: Proverbs provides Scriptural depth and substance to be tackled in a manageable time frame. The questions are real, down-to-earth, and straight to the point to get students quickly into Proverbs so they can hear God’s word on a practical level. Designed for Sunday school classes, youth groups, and small groups, this curriculum is guaranteed to get your students excited about and engaged with the Bible.
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    PublisherZondervan
    Release dateOct 6, 2009
    ISBN9780310867456
    Proverbs
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    David Olshine

    Dr. David Olshine is professor and director of the Youth Ministry, Family and Culture Department at Columbia International University in Columbia, South Carolina. David was raised in a Jewish family and came to know Jesus as his Messiah in high school. He speaks across the United States annually to thousands of youth, youth workers and parents. Dr. Olshine has authored and co-authored twenty books, including Studies on the Go: Proverbs and Studies on the Go: Philippians, Colossians and Thessalonians. David is the co-founder of Youth Ministry Coaches, an organization that coaches and consults churches for effective youth ministry strategies. David is married to Rhonda and they have two great kids, Rachel and Andrew.

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      YOUTH SPECIALTIES

      STUDIES ON THE GO: PROVERBS

      Copyright 2009 by David Olshine

      All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of Zondervan.

      ePub Edition August 2009 ISBN: 978-0-310-86745-6

      Youth Specialties resources, 300 S. Pierce St., El Cajon, CA 92020 are published by Zondervan, 5300 Patterson Ave. SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49530.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Olshine, David, 1954-

      Proverbs / by David Olshine.

      p. cm. — (Studies on the go)

      ISBN 978-0-310-28548-9

      1. Bible. O.T. Proverbs—Study and teaching. I. Title.

      BS1467.O47 2009

      223'.707—dc22

      2009009968

      All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the Holy Bible,Today’s New International Version™. TNIV®. Copyright 2001, 2005 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved.

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      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means— electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other— except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher.

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      DEDICATION

      To the love of my life, my wife and soul mate Rhonda. What would life be like without you? Every day with you is a gift. Boy, did I marry over my head!

      To my children, Rachel and Andrew. May you continue to grow in the wisdom of God. I love you!

      To my mom, who taught me to live life in the moment.

      To Keith Wasserman, one of the wisest persons I know. Thanks for our lifelong friendship.

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      To Tom Walsh and the Maxwells’ kindness for allowing me to use their condo in Florida to write this project.

      To my soul brothers Larry Wagner and Hule Goddard. Thanks for the weekly times of prayer, laughter, sharing, and cinnamon crunch bagels.

      SPECIAL THANKS TO MY RESEARCH TEAM

      To my writing and research team, graduates of Columbia International University in Columbia, SC. Nick Cunningham, Trevor Miller, Anne Lord Bailey, and Rachel Olshine; and Kaisi Thanks for your diligent work and great insight.

      CONTENTS

      Cover Page

      Title Page

      Copyright Page

      Introduction: How to Use Studies on the Go

      Background Insights for Proverbs 11

      SECTION ONE

      Session 1—Baby Steps: Proverbs 1

      Session 2—Finding the Good Trails: Proverbs 2

      Session 3—Words to Know-It-Alls: Proverbs 3

      Session 4—Discover by Doing: Proverbs 4

      Session 5—Pain in the Gut: Proverbs 5

      Session 6—What God Hates: Proverbs 6

      Session 7—Sex and the City: Proverbs 7

      Session 8—Wisdom at its Best: Proverbs 8 and 9

      Session 9—Sticks and Stones: Proverbs 10

      Session 10—Crooks, Character, and Cheers: Proverbs 11

      SECTION TWO

      Session 11—Lifelong Learners: Proverbs 12

      Session 12—Tongue Taming: Proverbs 13

      Session 13—Getting on Track: Proverbs 14

      Session 14—School of Hard Knocks: Proverbs 15

      Session 15—Leadership Development: Proverbs 16

      Session 16—Weathering Relational Storms: Proverbs 17

      Session 17—Handling Crashes: Proverbs 18

      Session 18—Accepting Correction: Proverbs 19

      Session 19—Honest to God? Proverbs 20

      Session 20—Why You Do What You Do: Proverbs 21

      SECTION THREE

      Session 21—Guidelines from Above: Proverbs 22

      Session 22—The Dancing Heart: Proverbs 23

      Session 23—Falling to Pieces: Proverbs 24

      Session 24—Boxes of Chocolate: Proverbs 25

      Session 25—Mad Dog: Proverbs 26

      Session 26—Know Your Condition: Proverbs 27

      Session 27—Playing Favorites? Proverbs 28

      Session 28—Cynics or Sages? Proverbs 29

      Session 29—Repetition: Proverbs 30

      Session 30—Keep Focused: Proverbs 31

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      INTRODUCTION

      How to Use Studies on the Go

      Studies on the Go have all of the best ingredients for helping students and adults connect with God and each other as they encounter Scripture. These studies work best in a small group, but can also be utilized in Bible studies, Sunday school, or youth group or even on road trips and retreats.

      Each session is broken up into the following subsections:

      1. Leader’s Insight: A brief overview for each lesson to help the leader/facilitator understand the historical background, focus, and purpose of the text.

      2. Share (warm-up questions): Before jumping in and studying the Bible, it helps to allow time for your group to connect relationally first. Warm-up questions are lighter and help your group get comfortable interacting with one another.

      3. Observe (observation questions): These questions help your group—regardless of their Bible knowledge—focus onWhat does the passage say? andWhat is the author communicating? The goal is to bring to the surface what the students are noticing about the passage.

      4. Think (interpretation questions): These are a set of questions helping your group consider what the author meant when he wrote the letters. The goal is to discover what the writer was saying to his audience.

      5. Apply (application questions): These questions are focused on helping the group connect God’s truth to their own lives.

      6. Do: An additional activity option that helps students experientiallyflesh out the lesson. The goal here is action, putting head knowledge into real-life practice.

      7. Quiet Time Reflections: One reproducible handout page for each session providing additional exercises to help students personally reflect on the passages on a daily basis.

      My hope is that these studies create an environment where students and adults experience community. The leader’s job is to facilitate a safe place in which people can be known and share freely. The best small groups are fluid, organized, free-flowing—with each person sharing.

      May God bless you as you engage students in the process of applying God’s truth to their lives.

      Blessings,

      Dr. David Olshine

      BACKGROUND INSIGHTS FOR PROVERBS

      WHO? Most scholars believe King Solomon compiled these sayings known as Proverbs. Solomon loved knowledge as a young person (1 Kings 3:9-12). Bill T. Arnold and Bryan E.Beyer’s Encountering the Old Testament refers to Solomon’s status as a world leader, a brilliant and discerning man (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 1999). He had vast interests in politics, science, business, and spiritual issues (see also 1 Kings 4:29-31).

      WHAT? Proverbs are short, pithy sayings that provoke a nonresponse’re practical in nature and teach lessons about life. The Book of Proverbs is a call to experience wisdom. Wisdom is personified in the form of a woman calling out to us, mocking the person who doesn’t listen to her, because to resist wisdom leads often to poor choices. The Jewish perspective is that all of wisdom is wrapped up inwho God is and that this God can be known and personally experienced.

      Wisdom from the Proverbs calls us to a vertical dimension, relating to God through prayer and solitude. The Proverbs also call us toward wisdom in the horizontal issues of life: Child rearing, fearing God, helping the oppressed, responding to the poor, and counseling others. When we choose to live selfishly, Proverbs calls this foolishness; when we choose to live God’s way, we experience wisdom.

      WHY? The Proverbs were written in a simple way so readers would experience wisdom, discernment, justice, learning, and guidance.Wisdom is mentioned over 40 times in the book of Proverbs. Chapter 1 is a call to listen and apply wisdom.

      WHERE? Proverbs follows the book of Psalms written by King David. The Psalter (another name for Psalms) is a collection of poems and wrenching cries from the heart. King David sets the stage for Solomon’s writings by saying in Psalm 49:4,I will turn my ear to a proverb. Ecclesiastes is the book following Proverbs, also written by King Solomon. Ecclesiastes is only 12 chapters, and Solomon’s thesis is simple: Life without God at the core of our being is meaningless and empty. The finale of Solomon’s trilogy follows Ecclesiastes in the Song of Songs. These are love songs and poetry between a man and a woman that mirror God’s love for his people. These three books are rooted in Solomon’s desire to communicate to us how to live life to the fullest.

      SECTION ONE

      1. BABY STEPS

      Proverbs 1

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      LEADER’S INSIGHT

      King Solomon was one of the wisest men ever to walk this planet. He penned these sayings, calledproverbs. The main theme throughout the 31 chapters is obtaining wisdom—but not just any wisdom. Proverbs is about a specific c kind of wisdom:God’s wisdom.

      Proverbs doesn’t refer to wisdom as information gathering; rather Proverbs talks about gaining God’s information, called wisdom, which leads to transformation. In the same way a caterpillar morphs into a new species of being in the butterfly, when we allow God’s

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