Infusion Bible eStudies are downloadable small group studies that can be read online, printed, or emailed. Each study includes a leader guide and a study guide and is suitable for a one-hour group Bible study.
Listen...to the words of the Scripture, and in them discover God's message for you today.
Look...at a brief verbal snapshot from the scrapbook of contemporary life and discover its connection both to you and to the Scripture passage.
Live...inside the Scripture to discover its context and message; then allow the Scripture to come alive in you and cause you to live out your faith in new and more-effective ways.
Read an excerpt from this study below.
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Our day school chapel service always begins with the children processing into their places following the students selected to bear
a candle lighter, a cross, a Bible, and some flowers. Large numbers of the children, even if they have done it within the past week,
clamor for the privilege of being one of that day’s “helpers.” They all want to lead the procession.
The ambition of the children to be first among equals is nothing unusual, of course. It is easy for us to identify with Tom Sawyer who, sitting in church one Sunday and hearing the text read about the wolf living with the lamb and a little child leading them (Isaiah 11:6), could not help but long to be that child.1 Almost everyone wants to be the leader, the star, the center of attention.
We all are a bit like James and John wanting to sit in glory. Like them, we would do well to hear the words of Jesus that “whoever wishes to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wishes to be first among you must be slave of all” (Mark 10:43-44).
