does anyone know how to start a bible study?

[peachykeen]

howdy yall, hope you're having a great week.  i live in houston, texas, and i'm a really big band dork (flute for 7 years now!!!).  but in the band, you'd be surprised to hear that its not all dorks with black rimmed, harry potter type glasses and pimples.  in fact the band has turned into one very big ethnic hang out, caked in foul language, gossip, anger, and even sex.  Hardly anyone remains unchanged and clean in this community, and i admit that i have even come under the influence of some of these things (not sex-lol).  but recently, I've been talking to my friend David.  I would love to start a band bible study as a way to reach out to all ethnicities and try to cleanse the band of its cliques and gossiping.  We both got really excited at the thought of starting one, but we both realized that we had no idea how.  Is there any small devotional book out there that would be good for about a half hour bible study?  I need to learn too, although I learn through teaching a bit more.  I'm not quite sure how to peice things from the bible together, but if you guys have any old bible study notes lying around the house, I would be happy to hear from you.  Thanks again!

[Willowbirch]

The Bible is a pretty big book to study - why don't you try and select a specific real-life theme or idea you want to learn about? Then you can have a better idea of how you want your Bible Study to work. You could have small learning sessions that use a Biblical foundation to help teach or explain whatever topic you've chosen.

I, for one, would be glad to help with verse-finding, organizing, etc. (I haven't held a Bible study before, so I might not be too good at it, lol)

And Peachy, whenever you get tired of the darkness around you, there's folks on this forum and God in heaven to turn to!