Week 1: Introduction — Why Women Need the Word

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?

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?