Course Introduction
Teach the Book of Job in a way that points to Christ’s presence and comfort in our suffering.
There is a pervasive teaching in our world that promises false hope when we are most struggling—a hope that evaporates when we need it most.
The Book of Job is God’s response to this. It is a book that draws us into the sufferings and anguish of a man directly afflicted by the hand of Satan. But it is also where we meet God face to face and where the false platitudes we have heard in our own suffering, or with which we have addressed others, are replaced by comfort that is true.
The God of Job is also the Christ of the cross, who himself became a man of sorrows and learned obedience through what he suffered. This God, this Son, would so empathise with us as to endure humiliation, pain, wrath and even death, so that we could find true comfort in the face of our own trials.
As we explore Job together, we will encounter this Christ afresh, and help one another to lead others to do the same through the teaching of this amazing book.
