How do I find today’s lesson?
In Maná, open Sabbath School and choose the week and day you want to study. On the official website, select your guide’s quarter and week. Each lesson includes Bible readings and questions for reflection.
The Sabbath School lesson
One same Bible study for the whole world church, laid out over seven days and meant to arrive at Sabbath spoken. This is how a week is built and what is done each day.
Where can I find the Seventh-day Adventist Sabbath School lesson?
The Sabbath School lesson is the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s Bible study guide. Study it day by day in Maná or consult the official adult study guides.
Read the official adult Bible study guides
What does “seventh adventist lesson” refer to?
If you searched for “seventh adventist lesson”, you are looking for the Seventh-day Adventist Sabbath School lesson. The official guide for adults is called the Adult Bible Study Guide.
Do the Sabbath School lesson and Revived by His Word use the same reading?
The lesson follows a weekly study theme. Revived by His Word follows a Bible reading calendar, one chapter per day. You can follow both studies in Maná.
What it is
Each quarter, the Seventh-day Adventist Church publishes a thirteen-week lesson on a theme or a book of the Bible. The same one all over the world and translated into dozens of languages: what is studied this week in Ensenada is studied this week in Manila.
On Sabbath morning the class gets together to discuss it. That is the point: the lesson is not read to know it, it is studied during the week so that you have something to say on Sabbath.
How the week is laid out
- Sabbath — the opening. It presents the theme of the week and the key text. It is short on purpose: it situates, it does not explain.
- Sunday to Thursday — the five days of study. Each one takes a part of the theme, sends you to some passages and ends with questions to think about. This is where the work is done.
- Friday — “Further thought”. It gathers the week together, usually brings a quote from Ellen G. White and leaves the questions that are taken to the class.
How to really study it
Almost everyone opens it on Friday night or on Sabbath on the way to church. You can, but then it is a reading and not a study, and it shows in the class.
- Open the passages it cites. The lesson sends you to the texts taking for granted that you are going to look them up, and they are half of what it means to say. Reading the lesson without opening the Bible is reading the commentary of a book you did not read.
- Answer its questions in writing. Thinking an answer and writing it are not the same. What is written can be taken to the class; what is thought is forgotten between Thursday and Sabbath.
- Ten minutes a day is enough. A lesson day is one page. The problem is never the time, it is remembering.
Where to find it
The official lesson is published each quarter on paper and digitally. Maná brings it already divided by days, with the passages it cites open where it cites them and a place to write your answer to each question. Free, ad-free, in Spanish, English, Portuguese and French.
Carry it in your pocket. Free and ad-free.