Overview
Text:    Proverbs 1:1-7
Title:    The Beginning of Wisdom

Outline

1. What Is Wisdom? (Proverbs 1:2-6)
2. How To Get Wisdom (Proverbs 1:7)
3. Who Is Wisdom? (Proverbs 1:1)

Personal Reflection & Small Group Questions

Please complete this study on your own, then bring it to your small group for discussion.

1. Looking back over your notes from this week’s sermon and text, what particularly caught your attention, challenged or confused you?
2. What is wisdom ultimately?
3. Consider tracing back the moral confusion of our day with the disobedience of Adam and Eve when they ate the forbidden fruit of the knowledge of good and evil. How does this relate to our need for wisdom?
4. What is wrong with Descartes's premise: “I think, therefore I am.”
5. How does this passage apply to our decision making?
6. Looking back over this week’s sermon and study, what one thing is most important for you to remember and apply?