Session Materials Waters of Life: Session I
The United Church of Canada 5
Bible Study: Water and the Bible
By John Buttars,
Harcourt Memorial United Church, Guelph, Ontario
The Bible is full of stories and references to water.
The material below can be...
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Session Materials Waters of Life: Session I
The United Church of Canada 5
Bible Study: Water and the Bible
By John Buttars,
Harcourt Memorial United Church, Guelph, Ontario
The Bible is full of stories and references to water.
The material below can be augmented by an
examination of a concordance or a Bible Dictionary.
You will find references under washing,
rain, water works, river, drink, and so on.
Remember that the biblical references to water come
from the contexts of various cultures, climates, and technologies.
1) Share your actual lived experiences with water – personal, family, communal.
Do any of these actual lived experiences relate - directly or indirectly - with the following
biblical passages?
Exodus 17:1 .
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“no water for the people to drink”
Psalm 23:2.
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“beside still waters”
Psalm 137:1.
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“by the rivers of Babylon”
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