Discussion question your group will work through:
1.Wilkin begins by describing the gap between women's hunger for God and their actual knowledge of Scripture. Does that description resonate with your experience? Where have you felt that gap most acutely?
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About This Study Guide
Women of the Word by Jen Wilkin is a practical, passionate guide to help Christian women study the Bible with both their minds and their hearts. Wilkin's central thesis is simple but transformative: we cannot love what we do not know. Before the Bible can change our hearts, it must inform our minds — and that requires moving beyond devotional habits that feel good in the moment but leave us biblically shallow. Wilkin identifies common pitfalls women fall into when approaching Scripture (treating it like a mirror, a magic eight ball, or a personal encouragement journal) and then offers a clear, memorable framework for deeper study built around five P's: Purpose, Perspective, Patience, Process, and Prayer. The goal is not just information, but formation — women who know God more truly because they know His Word more deeply.
This study guide is designed to walk you through Women of the Word one chapter at a time, whether you are reading on your own or with a small group. Each week, read the assigned chapter before you gather (or before you journal), then work through the discussion questions at your own pace. Some questions will check your comprehension of Wilkin's argument; others will press you toward honest self-examination; and a few will ask you to connect what you're learning to the broader story of the gospel. There is a closing prayer at the end of each week to help you bring the material before God rather than simply filing it away as information. Feel free to linger wherever a question opens something up — the goal is not speed, but depth.
By the end of this guide, you will have a concrete, repeatable method for studying any book of the Bible, a clearer sense of your own habits and blind spots as a reader of Scripture, and a renewed vision for why rigorous Bible study is an act of love — love for God and love for the people around you whom you are called to teach, encourage, and serve. Wilkin writes with warmth, humor, and directness, and we hope this guide mirrors that same tone as you work through it together.
10-Week Schedule
- Week 1Introduction — Why Women Need the Word7 questions
- Week 2Chapter 1 — A Case for the Serious Study of Scripture7 questions
- Week 3Chapter 2 — His Story, Not Yours7 questions
- Week 4Chapter 3 — The Five P's: Purpose7 questions
- Week 5Chapter 4 — The Five P's: Perspective7 questions
- Week 6Chapter 5 — The Five P's: Patience7 questions
- Week 7Chapter 6 — The Five P's: Process7 questions
- Week 8Chapter 7 — The Five P's: Prayer7 questions
- Week 9Chapter 8 — Teaching Others Well7 questions
- Week 10Review & Reflection — Looking Back, Moving Forward8 questions
Week 1: Introduction — Why Women Need the Word
Free sampleRead the Introduction of Women of the Word by Jen Wilkin.
1.Wilkin begins by describing the gap between women's hunger for God and their actual knowledge of Scripture. Does that description resonate with your experience? Where have you felt that gap most acutely?
2.She argues that our feelings about God are only as trustworthy as our knowledge of God. What are the implications of that statement?
a.Can you think of a time when your feelings about God led you in a direction that better biblical knowledge might have corrected?
b.Does making knowledge primary feel cold or clinical to you? Why or why not?
3.Wilkin is writing specifically to women. Why do you think she narrows her audience? Do you think the problems she identifies are unique to women, or more broadly human?
4.What has your Bible-reading habit looked like up to this point — daily devotionals, sporadic reading, structured study, something else? What has worked, and what has frustrated you?
5.Wilkin says the Bible is not primarily about us — it is primarily about God. How does that reorientation challenge or affirm the way you have typically read Scripture?
6.What do you hope to gain from working through this book and this study guide? Be specific — name one habit you hope to build and one obstacle you expect to face.
7.How does the idea that knowing God deeply is an act of love — for Him and for others — change the way you think about Bible study as a spiritual discipline?
Week 2: Chapter 1 — A Case for the Serious Study of Scripture
Read Chapter 1 of Women of the Word by Jen Wilkin.
1.Wilkin writes that the heart cannot love what the mind does not know. In your own words, what is the relationship she is drawing between the mind and the heart in the Christian life?
Week 3: Chapter 2 — His Story, Not Yours
Read Chapter 2 of Women of the Word by Jen Wilkin.
1.Wilkin describes several common approaches to Bible reading that end up making the Bible more about the reader than about God. Which of the approaches she names — the 'Xanax' approach, the 'fortune cookie' approach, the 'CSI' approach, and others — have you most recognized in yourself or others?
Week 4: Chapter 3 — The Five P's: Purpose
Read Chapter 3 of Women of the Word by Jen Wilkin.
1.In your own words, what does Wilkin mean by 'purpose' as it relates to Bible study? What wrong purposes does she identify, and what is the right one?
Week 5: Chapter 4 — The Five P's: Perspective
Read Chapter 4 of Women of the Word by Jen Wilkin.
1.What does Wilkin mean by 'perspective' in Bible study? Why is it dangerous to read a verse or passage in isolation from its broader context?
Week 6: Chapter 5 — The Five P's: Patience
Read Chapter 5 of Women of the Word by Jen Wilkin.
1.What does Wilkin mean when she calls for 'patience' in Bible study? What specifically are we being patient with?
Week 7: Chapter 6 — The Five P's: Process
Read Chapter 6 of Women of the Word by Jen Wilkin.
1.Wilkin outlines a process for Bible study built around three movements: comprehension, interpretation, and application. In your own words, what is each step asking you to do, and why does the order matter?
Week 8: Chapter 7 — The Five P's: Prayer
Read Chapter 7 of Women of the Word by Jen Wilkin.
1.Why does Wilkin include prayer as one of the five P's, rather than just assuming it? What does her inclusion of it say about how easily prayer can be separated from Bible study in practice?
Week 9: Chapter 8 — Teaching Others Well
Read Chapter 8 of Women of the Word by Jen Wilkin.
1.Wilkin opens this chapter by noting that the women who teach the Bible have an enormous responsibility. Why is the stakes of Bible teaching so high — what is lost when the Bible is taught poorly?
Week 10: Review & Reflection — Looking Back, Moving Forward
Review your notes and highlights from all of Women of the Word by Jen Wilkin. You may also want to revisit any chapters that were particularly challenging or formative.
1.Looking back over the whole book, which of Wilkin's five P's — Purpose, Perspective, Patience, Process, or Prayer — has been most convicting or most transformative for you? Why?
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