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Ruth: poverty and plenty

Hard times come again no more

RUTH: POVERTY AND PLENTY
By Tim Chester
The Good Book Company. 32 pages. £3.00
ISBN 978-1-90556-491-0

This guide enables individuals or groups to study Ruth in four sessions.

The chapters are a manageable length and the format clear. It is straightforward enough for young Christians to follow, but deep enough for the mature to benefit from. It has all the usual ingredients such as talk-about ice-breaker, investigation, exploration and application questions. There is also a helpful leader’s guide at the back. What sets it apart from others is that each chapter has lots of useful background information. The guide states that the aim in each session is to ‘uncover the meaning of a passage and see how it fits into the big picture of the Bible’. It does that well.

The references back to various passages in Deuteronomy and the chart showing the parallels between Boaz, the kinsman-redeemer, and Jesus are very useful. The guide does more than just concentrate on head knowledge and the application questions are pertinent and thought provoking.

I did not like the title. Ruth has such inspiring themes, it deserves better. The other thing I was disappointed about was that there is no list of other books in the series.
This is an excellent Bible study guide and I am going to suggest to my ex-pats women’s group in Kisumu that we use it together when we meet on Thursday afternoons.

Sally Jones,
Grace Baptist Mission, Kisumu, Kenya, working with pastors’ wives