This class will give students tools for reading, studying, and interpreting the Bible for personal devotion and for teaching in small groups. We will look at how to approach the various writing styles in the Old and New Testaments, learn how to discern the author's intent from a passage, and use our findings to put together a teaching on a specific passage. Students should be prepared to do some outside reading/work each week and be able to deliver a short teaching at the end of the quarter, in a supportive and encouraging learning environment. By the close of class, students should be more confident in their study of Scripture and experience God's transforming power through it.

Pastor Terry Gee

Week 1 - Be Like a Tree (Why Study the Bible)

Week 2 - The Story (The Narrative of Scripture)

Week 3 - A Person of Culture (Historical/Cultural Background)

Week 4 - I Don’t Mean to Interrupt (Read the Entire Book)

Week 5 - Uncle Screwtape and the Song of Songs (Genres of Scripture)

Week 6 - Old to New, New to Old (Reading Across Scripture)

Week 7 - Break It Down (Passage Diagramming)

Week 8 - A Way With Words (Word Studies and Translations)

Week 9 - Smell the Roses (Meditating on Scripture)

Week 10 - Just Get to the Point (Teaching Scripture)

Week 11 - Teaching Presentations 1

Week 12 - Teaching Presentations 2

Week 13 - Teaching Presentations 3