Easy-to-lead, 7-session Bible study on the first half of Romans that will help you unwrap God's priceless gift. Part of the bestselling Good Book Guide series, with over 1 million copies sold.
Part of the Good Book Guides series.
This seven-session Bible study by Timothy Keller on Romans 1 to 7 will help you to understand one of the most read, most written-about parts of the Bible.
Explore righteousness (why we don’t have it, why we need it and how we can receive it) and be thrilled as you read that "the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord" (Romans 6:23). It's a truth which will liberate every aspect of your life.
Each session will draw you to look closely at the Bible text and apply it meaningfully to your everyday life. The guide includes questions that open up discussion, optional personal reflections and a concise Leader’s Guide.
Flexible and easy to use, Good Book Guides are perfect for both groups and individuals.
“Each guide in this series provides a framework for your group to dig into the text of Scripture for itself while providing enough of a steer to keep you on track plus useful pointers towards application. The result is a great combination of fidelity to Scripture and ease of use.” - Tim Chester, Crosslands Training; Author
Introduction
Why Study Romans 1 – 7?
1. Introducing Righteousness (Romans 1:1-17)
2. Why Everyone Needs the Gospel (Romans 1:18 – 2:29)
3. How to Be Right with God (Romans 3)
4. What Abraham and David Discovered (Romans 4)
5. Enjoying Justification (Romans 5)
6. Why Christians Obey God (Romans 6:1 – 7:6)
7. Warfare Within (Romans 7:7-25)
Leader’s Guide
| Contributors | Timothy Keller |
|---|---|
| ISBN | 9781802542486 |
| Format | eBook |
| First published | August 2025 |
| Language | English |
| No. of studies | 7 |
| Publisher | The Good Book Company |
I love this small group study guide series from The Good Book Company. Christians are regularly told they should spend more time studying God’s Word, but sometimes there’s not a clear plan for how to do this. These study guides provide practical, step-by-step guidance on working through books of the Bible, along with wonderful questions that encourage reflection and application. I hope churches and Christian ministries will take advantage of this wonderful resource.
The aim of the The Good Book Company is to be biblical, relevant and accessible, and nothing embodies that ethos more than their Good Book Guides. Each guide provides a framework for your group to dig into the text of Scripture for itself while providing enough of a steer to keep you on track plus useful pointers towards application. The result is a great combination of fidelity to Scripture and ease of use.
The Good Book Guides are an immensely precious resource for the church. A careful blend of helpful context and clearly-worded, searching questions which aim to help readers to uncover the meaning of the text and apply it in responsible ways. I think these small group studies are the best available and pray that they will continue to prove helpful to local churches across the world!
Tim Keller's ministry has had a significant impact on my life and I'm grateful for the books and resources he has written. This study guide for Romans 1-7, however, is an exception. I wonder if someone else wrote it using Keller's themes instead of Keller himself writing the questions. Our women's Bible study group found the workbook questions to be shallow and often missing the main points of the passage. Romans is so rich, but the questions didn't dig into the depths at all. Topics that could have been served by several questions peeling back layers of God's character and purposes, were treated with one simple question that could be answered with a single "Sunday School answer". By half-way through the study, we gave up on the workbook and used discussion questions we found in commentaries and other resources we were using.
This is a verse-by-verse study on the first half of the book of Romans. Each of the 7 sessions has the following format as well as a dictionary for some of the key words.
Talkabout: ice breaker for groups or getting your thoughts going if doing alone
Investigate: explore the passage
Apply: practical questions
Explore more: go deeper
Getting Personal: personal reflection
Pray: prayer
There’s a leader’s guide in the second half of the book to facilitate group discussions. There’s also a map at the beginning as well as some context for why to study Romans.
This is a clear and concise study guide. It offers very little commentary or context, but can be used as a companion to the commentary “Romans 1-7 for You”. I do appreciate the separation of these as I can tend to focus more easily on the commentary than the actual verses when they are together. This study allows me to wrestle with Scripture on my own before immediately turning to a commentary. I think this approach helps me to actually learn better than reading the verses with the commentary before approaching the questions.
I enjoy the simplicity to the study guide with how each session is laid out. It can easily be done on its own for individual study, but is also set up to be great for groups. The leader’s guide in the back equips even the most inexperienced leader to do well. These are targeted for adults, but I am even thinking about using them in our homeschooling in our preteen/teen years with the kids.
I received a complimentary copy as a reviewer and all opinions shared are my own.
