Lifebuilder Bible Study: Joseph

Getting the Most Out of Joseph

1. Building on Damaged Foundations - Genesis 29:14--30:24; 37:1-4

2. Dreams, Visions and Discretion - Genesis 37:5-11

3. Leaving Your Dream with God - Genesis 37:12-36

4. Sexual Purity: When All Else Fails--Run! - Genesis 39:6-20

5. The Integrity of a Servant - Genesis 39:1-6, 20-23

6. Discernment - Genesis 40:1--41:32

7. Long-Range Planning - Genesis 41:33-57

8. Forgiveness and Release - Genesis 42; 45:1-15; 50:15-21

9. Perseverance - Acts 7:9-16; selections from Genesis 37--50

Leader's Notes

Paul Borthwick (DMin, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary) is senior consultant for Development Associates International and teaches global Christianity at Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts. Through his speaking, writing and resource ministry, Borthwick works to mobilize others to participate in world missions.

Borthwick is an active speaker and teacher, having taught courses at Gordon College, Africa International University (Nairobi), Alliance Theological Seminary (Manila) and Lanka Bible College (Sri Lanka), plus a guest faculty position at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. Previously he served for more than twenty years on the staff of Grace Chapel in Lexington, Massachusetts, first as youth pastor and then as minister of missions.
Borthwick is the author of Western Christians in Global Missions, How to Be a World-Class Christian, Six Dangerous Questions to Transform Your View of the World, A Mind for Missions, and other books and Bible studies. He and his wife Christie have been married since 1979 and they live in Lexington, Massachusetts, when not traveling internationally.