Schedule:
Tuesdays
1:30 PM Fireside Room
The Tuesday 1:30 pm Bible Study about Jesus' Leadership will reconvene in the fall. Enjoy the summer!
How we do Bible Study:
Many Christians read the Bible through the assumptions of their own culture. But the Bible was written between 2800 and 1900 years ago, in cultures and historical situations that were vastly different from our own.
We use many resources to help us to understand better the original context of the scripture text we are studying. In both the Lutheran and Episcopal traditions this kind of study has a long history as each one respects the role of scripture, tradition, and reason as faith seeks understanding.
In the last 20 years, the tools we have to understand scripture have increased dramatically. Historians, archeologists, anthropologists, and social sciences have helped us to glimse more realistically the social, political, economic, cultural contexts of Jesus' ministry. We use these tools to set aside many of our assumptions about the text we read that week and try to interpret it in light of its own culture. This method sometimes confirms much of what we thought, and sometimes it dramatically challenges our understanding.
Many Christians interpret the Bible by trying to figure out what the text tells us to believe: they see the text as a kind of fine print in a legal document that tells the requirments of belief and action so that they can be accepted by God. We read the scripture to understand the leadership of Jesus in his culture, and then begin to reflect on the leadership that Jesus might call us to show.
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Documents:
Resources for Bible Study
Process for Bible Study
Appoximation:
We all have a lense through which we understand and interpret the scripture. This is a draft of Pastor Kyllo's way of understanding the basic story of Jesus - it is only a draft!
A Closer Appoximation
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