New believers and young Christians need to be properly instructed, trained, about the Bible.
Let's see how we could do that in 10 monthly half day-evening sessions.
Before dinner is the first segment, with the second segment after dinner, and optional conversation following over Port and cigars (only kidding).
February
1. Old Testament overview and textual history
2. Old Testament archeology and historical context (this might include intertestamental period)
March
3. New Testament overview and textual history
4. New Testament archeology and historical context (this might include the early church)
April
5. Pentateuch/Torah
6. Concept of 'God' in the OT
May
7. Synoptic Gospels
8. John's Gospel
June
9. The Former Prophets
10. The Latter Prophets
July
11. Acts and Romans
12. 1 and 2 Corinthians
August
13. Pre-exilic Writings
14. Paul's shorter letters
September
15. Post-exilic Writings
16. General Epistles
October
17. Revelation
18. Who is Christ--who is God?
November
19. How does Salvation work?
20. Basic Christian Questions (intro to basic apologetics, but this would be the ground work for a weekend seminar the following February)
On the following Sundays' gatherings, participants could be invited to, in pairs, give their reflections/thoughts on the material they had on the prior Saturday.
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