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JOB:LESSONS IN COMFORT
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Publisher:
Christian Education & Publications
ISBN:
9780981828312
Item #:
9383
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Binding:
Paperback
Chapters:
13
Page Count:
120
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By Frankie Bennett-PCA. This is the recommended study book for the PCA in 2009.
The average person opens the Bible to Job because of pain. Like Job, we have lost someone, lost something, lost hope, lost joy. Even then, the average person does not "read" the book of Job. In times of sorrow, we search the book of Job. We hunt answers. We devour God’s Word because we have a need that nothing else can satisfy.
Once upon a time I thought I would never know joy again. Sorrow beyond anything I had ever known crushed me. God broke my heart.
Jesus said, "Seek and you will find." So I sought comfort in God’s Word. I read that when Job met God, Job said what he learned was "too wonderful for me." I did not understand what was so wonderful about Job’s discovery, so I reread the book of Job. I looked up every cross reference cited in my Bible. I searched recommended commentaries. I prayed. I read Job again and again and again.
What did I find? Jesus was right: I found what I was seeking. Job was right: God’s Word reveals things that are "too wonderful for me." We can take any sorrow, any loss, any fear, any pain to God’s Word. We can ask any question, as Job did. We can hurl any grief to God in prayer, as Job did. And at the end of our search, we will find Christ and comfort beyond our expectation. To my profound amazement, I now thank God that He led me through deep sorrow because it was sorrow that led me to seek; and as Jesus promised, those who seek do find. I learned things about God that I had not known. I found comfort. I found joy. God is indeed "too wonderful for me." Study questions included in the appendix.
It is my prayer that others who study Job: Lessons in Comfort will also learn "things too wonderful for me." When we begin to grasp His goodness, we too can offer true comfort to others.
- Frances Poston Bennett
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Publication Date:
2009
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Over the years I have read and taught many Bible studies, but
never have I come across a study as well written and thought-out as Job:
Lessons in Comfort. In fact, this is the best study in general that I have
ever come across. Job is a long book that on the surface seems to have only one
major theme, suffering. Yet, as Frankie shows us, there is so much more.
I found the manuscript for this work sitting on Jane Patete’s
desk, CEP’s women’s Ministries Coordinator. I asked if I could look it over
since I knew Frankie and went to seminary with her husband, Chris. Frankie asked
CEP to consider publishing the study, and it is my pleasure to announce that
Frankie has allowed us to be the exclusive publisher of this work.
Frankie approaches the book of Job from the angle of comfort in
suffering. All thirteen lessons constantly point us not to Job or his situation
but to our covenant-keeping God who has perfect, loving control of every aspect
of our lives, even when it seems He is clueless to our needs.
One more thing. I not only read through this study, I had the
pleasure of teaching this work to the women in the PCA office building each
Tuesday. Every week there seemed to be a very special quote that we would find
and share together. Each person in the group would also share their times of
suffering. It was a special time watching these women minister to each other
through each lesson.
I cannot recommend this book highly enough. If you cannot find a
group to go through this with, then use it for your personal study. If you
haven’t gone through serious suffering you probably will, or at least someone
will to whom you can minister. This study will give you help to either go
through suffering personally or walk alongside someone who is suffering.
- Dennis Bennett (no relation except in Christ)
Coordinator of Training and Resources
As a topic for preaching or
church life, Job needs to be read with sensitivity to the flow of life’s
experiences, which are often not pleasant. Vulnerability is an asset to the
interpreter, not only as a source of sympathy for Job in his suffering, but also
to give understanding as to why the efforts of “comforters” can be
inappropriate. Job: Lessons in Comfort is built on a base of this
personal experience.
Job: Lessons in Comfort
does what most technical commentaries do not do. It relates the book directly to
the suffering and faith of real people. As a preacher, I wrestle with, “How do I
find the application of this passage for our congregation?” Frankie Bennett’s
study gives clear and appropriate applications for the preacher.
But its potential usefulness
extends well beyond preachers. A teacher of a women’s group, for example, will
find more than sufficient material for weekly lessons. This study guide will be
most helpful for leaders (or individuals) who wish to work devotionally through
Job’s experience. The various themes are well-supported with comment and
extensive cross references.
- George Fuller
CEP Seniors' Ministry Director
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