Study Guides

Guide One · Free

Drawing the Tabernacle

This is the foundation guide, and it costs nothing. Every other guide in the series — and every part of the book itself — assumes you have done the work in this opening study.

The work is simple. Take a blank sheet of A4. Draw the floor plan of the Tabernacle from memory. Mark every piece of furniture in its place. Then lay the cross of Jesus inside the diagram.

Four sessions, sixty minutes each — an evening Bible study group can walk the foundation in a single month. It also works as a weekend retreat, or alone in four quiet sittings.

1The two zones, the gate, and the altar. Exodus 27 — why does the Tabernacle have only one gate?
2The laver and the entrance to the Tent. Exodus 30 and John 13 — washing with water and the Word.
3Menorah, Table and Altar of Incense. How three pieces of furniture correspond to Spirit, Word and Prayer.
4Laying the cross inside the plan. The drawing that the whole book is built on.

You need: a Bible open to Exodus 25–27 and Hebrews 8–10, a blank sheet of paper for each person, and a pen. Coloured pencils are useful in session three.

No payment, no account. Draw it tonight and see whether this way of reading Scripture is for you.

For Leaders

Everything a group needs, and nothing it does not.

There is no video series to buy, no licence to renew, no facilitator training to attend. A guide, a Bible, paper and pens. That is the entire kit.

The order that works: run the free foundation guide with your group first. If the drawing lands — and it usually does — move the group into Book One and the reflection guide together, one chapter a week.