The More Excellent Way
**You already have the quarterly. This is what you use when the reading ends and the questions do not.** Paul wrote to a church that had everything. Gifts, money, eloquence, confidence. And it was coming apart. His answer was not to give them more. It was to show them a way of carrying what they already had, and he named it in a single line at the end of First Corinthians 12: *and yet I show you a more excellent way.* This companion follows the official Adult Bible Study Guide for August 2026, Sabbath through Friday, day for day. Every daily chapter takes the same passage your class will discuss and opens it properly. **What is inside** - **Twenty eight daily chapters**, four to six pages each, not a paragraph and a verse - **Lesson 6, Spiritual Gifts.** Why the Spirit's first gift was a sentence you could be executed for, and why the parts of the body nobody notices are the parts it cannot lose - **Lesson 7, A Portrait of Love.** First Corinthians 13 read the way Paul wrote it, as fifteen verbs. Seven things love does, eight it does not, and what happens when you take away the word *not* - **Lesson 8, The Power of Christ's Resurrection.** One historical claim, five hundred named witnesses, and an invitation to go and check - **Lesson 9, Love-driven Ministry.** What love looks like when the people you love have publicly accused you of not loving them - **Three appendices.** Every Greek word the month turns on, a chapter written for teachers and small groups, and a method for actually learning the four memory texts **Written for** The private reader at the kitchen table. The family reading together. The teacher with forty minutes and eleven people. The member who has studied First Corinthians 13 thirty times and the visitor who arrived three weeks ago. And the reader who is not sure they believe it, who will find every hard objection stated at full strength before it is answered. **Teachers may photocopy any page of this book for their own class.** That is what it is for. *The Sabbath Companion, August 2026. Lessons 6 to 9, covering August 1 to 28. 218 pages.* --- ## ABOUT simplyREAL Ministries publishes plain language Bible study for people who want the text opened rather than summarised. The weekly lesson is also taught in full on the simplyREAL YouTube channel, published each Sabbath. --- This is an independent study companion. It is not published by, affiliated with, or endorsed by the Office of the Adult Bible Study Guide of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. Lesson titles, dates and daily headings follow the official guide so that readers can study alongside their local class.
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