DISCIPLE BIBLE STUDY
What is DISCIPLE Bible Study? It is a major commitment. The group will meet for l l/2 hours once a week for 34 weeks–17 weeks starting Sunday, February 12, from 4:30 p.m. until 6 p.m., and continuing on Sundays until June, with a break during summer, and returning in the fall. The study covers 80% of the Bible in DISCIPLE I. In addition to the daily reading assignments, there develops a relationship with all those who are also investing their time in this venture. It can be a time of revelation, transformation, and great spiritual growth. If you have little knowledge of the Bible and want to have some understanding of the scriptures or if you have been in church all your life and are interested in a comprehensive study of the scriptures, this is the Bible study for you.
Read a testimony from a DISCIPLE I graduate:
The hours of reading and talk, misunderstandings and arguments, the revelations, the dawning realization of the depth of our ignorance and the height of God’s love.
Some was hard to understand, so much was hard to live. . .On rainy nights, we broke and ate the bread together, though the bread might be popcorn or Pepperidge Farm cookies. We ate cinnamon bread as sweet as honey in the desert, and garlic bread to remind us of the lost, delectable onions and garlic of Egypt, and how tempting slavery can sometimes be. We cooled ourselves with apple cider or warmed our cold hands with hot coffee and told each other how we’d been late from a crazy day at work and rushed off from home without eating a bite of supper.
We revealed our tiredness, and our hopes; jobs of stress, jobs in jeopardy, sickness and health, the broken marriage, fear for our children and all children. As we prayed, we received the gift of prayer—how to ask for it; how to give it to each other, in friends of friends, to strangers.
Prayers were answered, and gradually, we shared the answers. We became friends with prayer—in prayer. But even loving friends will go and tomorrow’s prayers blot out today’s.
All this will pass away. . .
But my Word will not pass away. Cherish it. Write it on the face of your wristwatch, hang it on the keyboard of your computer, cover your television screen with it, etch it into your rear-view mirror.
And on the palms of your outstretched hands.
For the Word of the Lord endures forever: The great I AM and all that it nourishes in love.
If you are ready to delve into the Word of God through DISCIPLE I Bible Study, please inform the church office by Sunday, January 22.
