THE DISCIPLE BIBLE PROGRAM

A thirty-four-week study of the whole Bible. For youth who are in tenth grade or older. Youth discover for themselves what the Bible says. Uses the Good News Bible (Today's English Version). Lets youth see and hear Bible scholars, Bible teachers, and well-known preachers through video. Involves disciplined daily study, weekly group conversation and sharing, and mutual support. Led by an adult trained in Disciple. Requires high commitment, promises life-changing results.

INTO THE WORD INTO THE WORLD builds on biblical knowledge gained through the overview of the whole Bible in BECOMING DISCIPLES THROUGH BIBLE STUDY and deepens biblical understanding by probing selected portions of Scripture. Emphasis shifts from the broad view to the deeper, more detailed view.

Genesis, Exodus, Luke and Acts will be read entirely. Each week's reading assignments will also include appropriate passages from other parts of the Bible.

Torah forms the foundation for Old Testament traditions. Genesis and Exodus play a distinctive role in Torah teaching.

The teachings, sermons and life of Jesus in Luke provide the impetus for the strong movement of the Holy Spirit in the events in Acts.

REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE concentrates on the Old Testament prophets and the letters of Paul. The prophets and Paul are continually calling their hearers and readers back to their God and to a sense of who they are as a "set apart" people.

Old Testament

The prophets and the community cannot be separated. The prophets spoke for God, out of the community, to the community.

The Prophets

New Testament

Paul's experience of the risen Lord, his relationship to the community he addresed, his Jewish traditions, and the Greco-Roman culture of his day merged in his writing of the letters. Paul used the language of his culture to carry the message that arose out of his roots in the Hebrew Scriptures and Judaism.

The Letters of Paul