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About A Year in The Bible
from Studies in Grace
A Year in the Bible is a 52-week long Bible Study that emphasizes
the Biblical motif of Creation/Fall/Redemption and the human response to the
mighty saving acts of God’s grace. As the “flagship program” for Studies in
Grace, it covers the plan and history of God’s redemption of creation
throughout the Old and New Testaments.
Now Available:
A Year in The Bible™
is now available
for home study. The Study Guide is $34.95 plus $78.00 for a set of Lecture CD's
per term.
Required reading books are available through Studies in Grace, on line, or
at your local book stores.
Contact us at 952-920-2408 or
studiesingrace@qwest.net for
more information.
Exploding false categories
AYB seeks to consistently use Biblical categories to understand what the
Bible itself is teaching. Categories like supernatural and natural, sacred
and secular, spiritual and physical, are derived more from ancient Greek
philosophy than from the Scriptures themselves. When the meanings behind
these false categories are imposed on the content of the Bible, the Word of
God is made impotent for much of our lives. The result is, we find the
Scriptures relevant for our prayer-life, our church-meeting life and perhaps
aspects of our family life, but meaningless for our lives as students, as
producers and consumers of goods, services and media, for our lives as
citizens, as members of parties and organizations. False categories have led
us as modern Christians to imagine that God does not care about creation,
most of culture and our involvement in it.
New Testament Christianity
While it is perfectly appropriate to read the Old Testament in the light
of the New Testament, most Bible studies wipe out the integrity of the Old
Testament itself in the process. Israel’s covenant with God which covered
the whole lives of the people is then lost in the search for Christian types
and Messianic prophetic fulfillment. The central place of all creation and
the earth especially in God’s covenant with Israel is also lost when the Old
Testament is not understood in its fullness and integrity. Once God’s claim
on the whole of human life in the Old Testament is lost, the New Testament
is not read as a fulfillment of God’s long redemptive plan but as a
world-flight departure from that plan. God’s ancient intention to restore
creation with human beings as his governors of creation is lost in the ether
of angel’s wings, clouds and harps. Full Christianity can never be New
Testament Christianity. As the old bumper sticker says, “If Jesus is the
answer, what is the question?” The question, and much more, is in the Old
Testament. Full Christianity is Whole Bible Christianity. Required
Reading: Participant Notebook, by Trace James How to Read the Bible
for All its Worth, Gordon Fee and Douglas Stuart ISBN 0-310-24604-0
A Basic Guide to Interpreting the Bible, Robert Stein ISBN
0-8010-2101-4 Bible Student's Map Book ISBN 0-687-09938-2 the
greatest song, Calvin Seerveld, ISBN 0-919071-02-3 |
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