Relationships (A Thirty-Day Bible Study for Students)

Why do relationships seem so complicated?

This is not a teen Bible study about marriage or dating or purity or anything like that. It’s a study about finding ourselves in the company of others.

Focusing on seminal relationships in the Bible (David and Jonathan, Paul and Barnabas, Ruth and Naomi, Joseph and his brothers) as well as individuals whose biblical experiences were distinctly relational (John the disciple, Timothy the apprentice, Miriam the prophet, Eve “the Woman”), students will see how relationships shape their identity and how their identity informs (and sometimes malforms) their relationships.

The Bible doesn’t hand out fix-it formulas—but it does something better. It gives you company. It gives you witnesses. It gives you a God who has not flinched away from any kind of complexity, including yours. Something happens when you start looking at your own story through the lens of these ancient, messed-up, beloved, transformed people. Something shifts. The questions get a little less terrifying. The silence gets a little less empty.

This is where God wants to meet you. Open up the next page.

Humans of the Bible is a series of interactive thirty-day Bible studies for students focused on Bible characters wrestling through the same things you are. The text of the Message Bible is included in each day’s reading, as well as a reflective practice and questions from the day’s readings.

Discover the whole series of Humans of the Bible studies:

• Anxiety, Stress, and Pain, where readers learn to navigate challenging emotions through the lens of Scripture
• Identity, which addresses embracing a courageous and faithful purpose in Christ
• Relationships, which teaches teenagers how to build strong, authentic connections