7 Arrows

Asking great questions.

Reading God’s Word is important to the vitality of our spiritual life. In the book of James, we see that followers of Jesus are to be not just “hearers of The Word” but “doers of The Word.” Oftentimes, believers new and old don’t know how to pull those truth’s from God’s Word. This tool ask seven simple questions to help any reader to see clear next steps for them.

Use this video to teach your group the 7 Arrows.

Purpose: The Seven Arrows are seven simple questions that relate to 7 Arrows of varying directions to help remember and guide our D-group members through God’s Word. These simple questions allow for the men and women in our groups to inductively study God’s Word in a way that helps to understand what it is saying to us and to the original audience in which it was intended.

Scriptures:

  • John 14:26 - Holy Spirit Guidance

  • John 15:4 - Abide in Christ

  • Hebrews 4:12 - God’s Word is alive and ready to teach us

  • 2 Timothy 3:16 - The importance of the Scriptures

  • Romans 15:4 - The purpose of the Scriptures

Group Action Steps:

As you begin discussing a personal abide time with your group members this is a great opportunity to introduce the 7 Arrows study tool. Have the members in your group take a particular scripture and ask the 7 questions of the text. This scripture can be the same for each person, or choose a topic and have each person find and dissect their own set of verses.

Remember that some scripture may require the reader to “zoom out” from the text to find the answer to some of the questions and the context in which they are reading.

Questions to ask:

  • Ask the 7 questions of any text you are reading together.

  • What are you hearing the Lord say? What are doing about it?

  • What is something new that was revealed in this passage that you didn’t know before?

Teach:

The Seven Arrows is a simple inductive Bible study tool. Seven questions guide us through the verses we are reading. From there, we gain insight and action from the text. Each of these questions have a directional arrow that go with them to help remind us what we are discerning with each question.