Nationals Study Book!

Who wants to start guessing what the study book for Nationals will be? I hope it's James or Titus!

Those would be a couple of my favorites (oh, wait… all of the books of the Bible are… :D), but I really hope it will be Galatians. :)

2 Thessalonians!

I hope it's Titus (but Galatians would be really neat too, because we are {still} studying it at church!), although all those sound great!!! I'm very excited to see what book I'll be studying (I'll study it whether or not I qualify)!

Wouldn't it be likely for it to be 1 Timothy, following the pattern of last year? I think James would be great for a Local Contest study book, but I think it'd be too challenging to do without a Sword Study. But I can definitely see Titus as an option, since it's only 3 chapters long, as was 2 Peter.

I think Jude or 2nd or 3rd John would be neat. They are so short!

They probably won't pick Jude this year because they did 2 Peter last year, and those two books are very alike.

i want 2 john it is so short

Wait, they don't give out sword studies for the National study?!

Nope. From the Competition Rulebook: "At the time of notification of the National Competition Qualifiers, the National Qualifiers will be assigned an additional book of the Bible to study inductively, without an additional Sword Study."

@Christian: I studied James last winter without a Sword Study, and I did just fine! :) That's why I'm hoping it will be James.

I guess I meant since it's five chapters long. It helped last fall that 2 Peter was only 3 chapters, since we were studying by ourselves. But I guess if it came easily to you, and since you already studied it yourself, you have every right to hope it's James! ;D

Hmm… Maybe they will surprise us with a Minor Prophet! Maybe Jonah, or Nahum, or Habakkuk?

Uh. I'm really hoping for Titus. Anything beyond 3 chapters is to long, because we're going to be learning 600 verses as well, in less than 3 months!

But, at least it's not up to us to decide, because I don't think we could agree on anything…everyone has their own ideas, as do I :)

I'm guessing 1 Timothy. But I was wrong last year with my guess…

It just seems like a clever thing to do. Instead of starting with the first book (1 Timothy – which is 6 chapters), they pick one that's easier to handle in 20 minutes per day (2 Timothy – only 4 chapters). Then they surprise us by going backwards.

If 1 Timothy was any shorter, I'd probably say so too. But 1 Timothy is rather long. Then again, there's only been one book so far that we've had to study for Nationals, so there's not much of a precedent for anything.

Hmm... Maybe they will surprise us with a Minor Prophet! Maybe Jonah, or Nahum, or Habakkuk?

that would be cool!

I hope they do James!

I hope it's Philippians!

Well, we'll found out tonight! Some of you right be right, or - all could be wrong :)

2.5 hours!!!!!!! :D

I think it will be Titus. :)

1 TIMOTHY!!!!! WHY!!!!!!!

Well, they went for the obvious after all.

Pretty long book! Oh well, I'm looking forward to studying it, even though it is six chapters. I'M SO EXCITED!!!!!!!!!

Me too!

It's so long!!! I really did not think they'd do 1 Timothy!!! I'm excited to start working on it!!! =D