THEME EIGHT:

HOW TO SHARE OR
PRAY THE BIBLE

THE INTERRELATION
BETWEEN BIBLE
SHARING AND BIBLE
STUDY

BIBLE SHARING

BIBLE STUDY

Group activity or at least more

than 2 people.

Group activity
Personal activity

Aim: To pray and live the

Word of God.

Aim: A better understanding

of the Word of God so that its
meaning is not distorted.

Focus: the meaning of the

Word of God here and now for
me/us.

A facilitator is needed to
animate the meaning.

Focus: the meaning of the

Word of God at the time of the
human writer for the
community.
In the light of the meaning for
the original readers what is
meaning for
us today?
the
A facilitator
is needed
to
animate the meaning
Resource person is needed
to explain some thins about
the context of the text.

Who can participate in a Bible Sharing Group?

Family ties (one or several together) in the neighborhood,

Parish movements of youth or adults,

Small Christian Communities in the parish,

Groups sharing a common interest of spirituality in the

parish.

Organising Bible Sharing and Bible Study

Groups
The frequency and duration of the
meeting
The animator:
The sitting arrangement

Methods of Bible Sharing

The groups with a prayer in which we invite

Jesus
The Biblical text is read aloud.

There is then a prayerful re-reading aloud

of the word(s) that struck each person. This

is followed by a reading of the text again.
During a time of silence all listen to what God

is saying to each person.

Then there is a sharing the word(s) that

touched them with comments, if some desire,

rather that discussions and then a choosing
the Word of Life for the living during the
coming
or month.
There isweek
a time
of planning for action in the
Christian Community. The group decides WHO
does WHAT and WHEN? A report could be given
about how the Word of Life was lived in the
past week or month with an evaluation of it
before the planning of the next action.
The final step is a time of personal
spontaneous prayer before the concluding