What motivates you to go to Bible study?
What are you hoping to get out of church?
David asked the new NETS students at Swakopmund prison what they wanted to get out of their Bible studies and NETS course material. Their replies included:
- I want to understand the Holy Spirit and what baptism really means
- I want to learn how to pray and how to preach God’s Word
- I want to learn more about God’s kingdom: how it functions and how to enter
- I want to discover what it is in me that keeps me away from God
- I want to be able to come to God
- I want to learn how to overcome temptation
- I want to be able to leave the things of this world behind me
- I want to know how to handle the anger inside me
- I want to know how to live sinlessly
- I want to know how to change my life
- I want to know how to choose the right friends
- I want an easy way to tell others about God without being embarrassed
- I want to know how to improve the negative things in my life and get closer to God
- I want to know how to cleanse the bad thoughts out of my head
- I want to obey God’s will
- I want to defeat godlessness
- I want to exactly understand the Bible
- I want to follow the 10 commandments
- I want to grow spiritually
- I want to understand God’s Word and his will for my life
- I want to set an example for others
- I want to stay in the level way and leave the world’s way
- I want a strong heart and soul to obey God’s commandments
- I want good fellowship with God
- I want to be a church person
- I want to live for God’s kingdom
- I want to be 100% spiritual Christian
- I am far from God and want a relationship with him and to understand the Bible
- I want to know what is the aim for those who are in God’s kingdom and what role they play on earth
- I want a deeper knowledge of the Bible and to teach others so they do not wander like a lost sheep
- I want to know who God is
- I want to know what he is telling us to do and not to do
- I want to be strengthened in my spirit
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