One Spicy Bible Lesson SoS 4

Before the Study

Read to yourself 4:1-5

The writer of the song has drawn a picture with words intended to EVOKE (to bring feelings, memory, imagery from the back of your mind to the forefront) ideas and feelings not a physical image.

What ideas and feelings is the writer trying to evoke from the description of the woman?

After the Study

As a group answer these questions.

1. On a scale of 1-10 (uncomfortable-comfortable) how does this text make you?
2. How does 4:16 reflect the bride’s active willing involvement in the relationship? How does this challenge shallow or passive views of desire in Christian teaching?
3. In what ways can this text be misused (either to spiritualize away sexuality or to reduce it to pure physicality)? How can we hold both the physical and spiritual dimensions of this passage with integrity?
4. How does the bride’s invitation and the beloved’s joyful response mirror the way we (singles as well) might invite Christ into the “garden” of our deep sacred soul space?