The Gentle Savior - Seeing Jesus Through the Eyes of the Women Who Met Him [Paperback]

Lynn Bell (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 29, 2011

The Gentle Savior - Seeing Jesus Through the Eyes of the Women Who Met Him

"Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did!"
 
This 10-week Bible study joins a thirsty-hearted Samaritan woman in inviting you to meet a man who looks into a woman's heart and knows exactly what she needs. Who values women regardless of their marital status, professional skills, sexual history, or financial position. Who notices both the heroic faith of women in desperate circumstances and the quiet suffering of sisters racked by grief and chronic illness. Who invites women to work alongside Him and use their intellectual capacity to know him more fully. Who inspires women to give extravagantly and to stay by his side when all the world abandons him.

The women of the Gospels discovered in every encounter with Jesus that he was no ordinary first-century rabbi, but a gentle Savior who reflected on them the face of his compassionate Father.

This Bible study workbook guides the reader through all the Gospel passages dealing with Jesus and women and concludes with a list of the Top Ten Things Jesus Never said to a Woman.

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

ENDORSEMENTS

The Gentle Savior is an informative and engaging study specifically geared for women in need of a biblical understanding of God's grace. Lynn Bell provides an overview of women in the Bible who were influenced by Christ and served in His earthly ministry. Women will be offered hope in Christ as they discover more fully the Savior who came to heal their broken hearts.
Dr. Monica Rose Brennan, Associate Professor & Director, School of Religion & Center for Women's Ministries, Liberty University

The Gentle Savior is a unique Bible study for women that engages both the mind and the heart. The study's focus on Jesus's countercultural regard for women helped me to better grasp His love for me. It also encouraged me to view other women through the lens of love and reach out to them with compassion and sensitivity.
Sonia Cabell, Ph.D., Research Scientist, University of Virginia

About the Author

Lynn Bell is a Christian speaker and author based in Charlottesville, Va. She first stepped into a Sunday school class over 30 years ago as an aide to her mother in the small West Virginia church where she grew up. She has been sharing her faith with Bible students of all ages ever since and loves helping people learn about God's incredible love and grace.

After attending a Christian junior college, Lynn married her high school sweetheart Randy. They spent 15 years living in Oregon before returning to the East Coast in 1999. During the week Lynn works as the director of communications for the Curry School of Education Foundation at the University of Virginia.

She and Randy have two college-age daughters, Jessica and Adrianne. Lynn also serves on the board of directors of the Charlottesville-Albemarle chapter of Love in the Name of Christ. She volunteers at  The Haven (a day shelter for homeless people), and has recently participated in two mission trips to Ensenada, Mexico.

Product Details

• Paperback: 132 pages
• Publisher: Lighthouse Publishing (September 29, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1935079859
• ISBN-13: 978-1935079859
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #799,735 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Lynn Bell is a Christian speaker and author based in Charlottesville, Va. She first stepped into a Sunday school class over 30 years ago as an aide to her mother in the small West Virginia church where she grew up. She has been sharing her faith with Bible students of all ages ever since and loves helping people learn about God's incredible love and grace.

After attending a Christian junior college, Lynn married her high school sweetheart Randy. They spent 15 years living in Oregon before returning to the East Coast in 1999. During the week Lynn works as the director of communications for the Curry School of Education Foundation at the University of Virginia.

She and Randy have two college-age daughters, Jessica and Adrianne. Lynn also serves on the board of directors of the Charlottesville-Albemarle chapter of Love in the Name of Christ. She volunteers at The Haven (a day shelter for homeless people), and has recently participated in two mission trips to Ensenada, Mexico.

The Gentle Savior is Lynn's first published Bible study, although she has been developing her own Bible class curriculum for a number of years. She began pursuing the study of Jesus and women more than a dozen years ago while teaching a women's Bible study at her church in Corvallis, Oregon.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Life-Changing Bible Study, October 11, 2011

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Christi - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Gentle Savior - Seeing Jesus Through the Eyes of the Women Who Met Him (Paperback)

The Gentle Savior Bible study has helped me feel more confident in who I am, knowing that Jesus truly loves us where we are and for who we are. I have used what I have learned in this study to help other women who are struggling with their own hurts, habits, and hang-ups.

4.0 out of 5 stars Does God Really Love Me? Yes., October 11, 2011

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N. Eastman "Christian Women Developing" (Delaware, OH, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Gentle Savior - Seeing Jesus Through the Eyes of the Women Who Met Him (Paperback)

Lynn Bell wants women, particularly those experiencing a feeling of broken relationship to God due to misconceptions, preconceptions, guilt and other factors, to see God's nature as compassionate, gentle, forgiving, and comforting.

"The Gentle Savior" helps women answer the question, "Does God really love me?" While they discover that he does indeed love them, they'll learn two very important things: (1) how very much he loves women, and (2) how to study the Bible more deeply and thoroughly so that they can know this - for themselves, in their heart of hearts.

Bell helps women see Jesus as the gateway to understanding God's nature. She provides a series of New Testament studies of Jesus' interactions with women we ordinarily would not view as role models. In an approachable, captivating style, Bell delves into the hearts of these Bible women, examining their stories in their particular time and historical context, while finding many ways in which their stories and ours intersect.

For the "how-to" component, in each chapter Bell gives bite-sized chunks of instruction on Bible interpretation, with special attention to literary genres. Using creative approaches, such as a pop-quiz-style "How much do you already know" section, each section helpfully guides women into deeper intellectual, as well as personal, study of God's word. She engages both the right and left sides of the brain by employing this and other types of intellectual and creative exercises, which serve to expose women to further Bible knowledge and understanding.

This work is biblically instructional, yet also emotionally and spiritually engaging. I highly recommend it for either personal or small group Bible study. I would probably not highly recommended it for a large-group study, because in a large-group setting women may not feel comfortable fully exploring their own relationship with the Lord, which is a primary goal of the book.