Silly me...I requested another book to review right before I had a baby! Again, I had to go through it twice before my brain shifted from "life sustaining" mode into "functioning human" mode.
If you're looking for a lot of scripture commentary by the authors on the above listed topics you won't find it in this book. Each study is accompanied by a set of open ended questions that the group is meant to answer and discuss together. I wasn't super enthusiastic about the format for a couple of reasons. The first being that I was confused by some of the instructions to draw circles, boxes, underlines, etc. under specific key words in the passages. But I've never been one to write in my bible or text books as I'm studying so this was more distracting to me than anything else. Maybe that's how Kay Arthur and crew roll but I'm not a fan.
The second impression that I got from this book is that depending on the group you're going through the study with, it would be very easy to regurgitate "Sunday School" answers to the questions. I was skeptical that a larger group could get into meaningful and challenging discussion given the 40-minute time parameter of each chapter. To be fair, that says more about me and the type of people I've spent the last few years studying the bible with that it says about the authors' ability to write a quality bible study.
Oh, while the cover is beautiful, there aren't any bells or whistles on the inside that make the book fun to look at. It's just two columns of black and white text on each page. (I imagine that keeps the cost of printing down.)
Some pros:
- The book is small and it would fit inside one of those leather or canvas zippered bible covers that everyone uses.
- There's no homework! Everything is contained within a 40-minute study meant to be done in a small group.
- LOTS of scripture references for each deadly sin.
Overall, I give it 2.5 stars
*I received this book for free from WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group for this review.*
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