Welcome to Verity Podcast. I'm your host, Felicia Mason-Himer, and I am here to

teach you how to know what you believe, to live it boldly, and to communicate it

graciously to the world around you. I believe that women are ready to go deeper

in their faith than ever before, and they don't have to go to seminary to do it.

I am so glad you're here, and I hope you'll join me on this journey because

everyone is a theologian. Hello friends, welcome back to Verity Podcast. Okay,

this week's episode is building on some questions I got after last week's

episode. Last week I talked about whether women can teach theology to other

women, and in the course of that episode, I brought up the point that a lot of

women's Bible studies can be really shallow and end up like a social hour, and

this really resonated with a lot of you. You told me that you've experienced

this, and that it's not just a women's problem. This is actually a problem in a

lot of men's studies as well, where men feel unhealthily stereotyped, and as

if the content of these studies is just not scriptural, or at least not ushering

them deeper into their walk with God. So this is clearly a problem that both men

and women face, and I thought, let's do an episode about what to do when you're

in a shallow Bible study. How do you change it? Can you change it? What can you

do about the problems we encounter? So hopefully this episode is practical, but

also biblical, and gives you some ideas for how you can help either change the

Bible study you're in, or start a Bible study that actually studies the Bible.

So before we get to some of the problems in modern Bible studies and how to

solve them, I want to first look at the overarching purpose of the church.

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