Women Living Well book study: Week 1 Assignment and Study Guide

It's finally time to begin our WLW book and Bible study! :D wohoo!

If you're just joining us, we are doing the very first week of our study of the book Women Living Well by Courtney Joseph! Your first reading assignment starts today- all you have to do is read the first 3 chapters of the book and then do the study guide below if you'd like.  I've listed a few passages of Scripture at the top of the guide if you want to do more in-depth studying of some of the verses she listed in the three chapters, and your weekly "home" work assignment is at the end of the study guide! 

I've tried to design this 10-question guide to be helpful to you by taking some of Courtney's practical tips and asking you to think about ways you can apply them in your own life. My hope is that we can all grow in Christ together through putting her biblically-based wisdom into practice in our own homes! :) 

I think it's going to be a great challenge, and it will be so exciting to see what good fruit comes out of walking with the King! :)

You can download and print the study guide with the link below, and we'll all meet back here next Wednesday, the 23rd to discuss our thoughts on these first chapters as well as discuss our answers to this week's study guide questions.

I'm planning on posting each WLW study post at 5 a.m. central time every Wednesday {Lord-willing}, and then our discussion will be ongoing in the comments on the post throughout the day and over the next week. You don't need to be here at a certain time by any means, just feel free to hop over whenever you can join in the discussion! You can also post your questions over on the Facebook wall if that's more your speed. :D

If you have any questions, just leave a comment below! :D I'm so excited to answer these study guide questions for myself this week! :D I can't wait to hear how your studying goes!

download the study guide for chapters 1-3 here 
{here is an alternate link to view in Google docs}

here are the previous posts about the WLW study:
Women Living Well: the book study {intro}

Women Living Well book study: the reading plan

Women Living Well book study: the reading plan

I'm so excited to get started on the Women Living Well book study! I think we're going to have such a great time studying how to be joyful at home with our families!

Some of you are still waiting on books- no worries! Your first reading assignment doesn't begin until next week- October 16. Each week after the 16th, we'll discuss our last week's readings and I will post your new "study guide" for the next week right here on the blog.

All you need is a copy of the book and your Bible, {and access to the internet ;)}. I'll be posting your simple "study guide" worksheet/homework for you to download right here every Wednesday {Lord-willing! :D}. If you want to make sure you don't miss a post, you're welcome to subscribe by email, follow the Facebook page or follow {bh} on Bloglovin.

I also looked into several different options for discussing our thoughts together, but the simplest way I found is to just do it right here in the comments of the WLW posts. You can reply to specific posts in a thread right here on the post- plus, it keeps everything simple and doesn't require social media to interact {I know everyone doesn't have a Facebook page}. And after it's all done, we can come back to our {hopefully} fruitful discussion as a resource very easily if we leave it in one place.

Of course, if you have a group of friends already doing it together, you could easily create a closed Facebook Group, or use Twitter hashtags. If you want to interact throughout the week and don't have a group, you're welcome to post on the {bh} Facebook page as well!

Here's the reading plan for the next 8 weeks:

October 16: Open our study.
assignment for 10/23: start reading chapters 1, 2, 3, do your "homework" assignment over week 10/16- 10/23

10/23: Chapter 1-3 + homework discussion
assignment for 10/30: read chapters 4, 5, 6 + homework

10/30: Chapter 4-6 discussion
assignment for 11/6: read chapters 7, 8, 9 +  homework

11/6: Chapter 7-9 discussion
assignment for 11/13: read chapters 10, 11, 12  + homework

11/13: Chapter 10-12 discussion

assignment for 11/20: read chapters 13, 14, 15 + homework

11/20: Chapter 13-15 discussion

assignment for 11/27: read chapters 16, 17, 18 + homework

11/27: Chapter 16-18 discussion

assignment for 12/4: read chapters 19, 20 + homework

12/4: Chapter 19 + 20 discussion
assignment for 12/11: read conclusion + homework

12/11: Conclusion + discussion

Here's a pin-able reminder if you want {right click- open image in new window to print it!}

I hope that all makes sense! :D

To summarize: we start reading one week from today, and I'll post your first 3 chapter study guide sheet next week on the 16th of October {a.k.a my last day of being 30 ever :( dum, dum, dum....  }

Do you have any questions? I'll try to answer them below! {though- please forgive me- it may be slow due to the one-handed typing /nursing/homeschooling answering I have going on most of the time!}