SOAPY Bible Study
Today is the first day of the rest of your life, so you don't have to wait until January 1st, to start a daily ritual of scripture reading. Below, you will find selected scriptures for each day of the year located within each month of the year. Simply click on the name of the month, to see the entire month's daily scriptures. In order to get the most our of your readings, keep a journal of your daily reading and using the following example, write as you reflect on these scriptures and on yourself.

S – Scriptures   

• Read the assigned Scriptures for the day. Write down those that especially catch your attention.

O - Observe                 

• Observe what your chosen Scriptures say to you, and write it down,

A - Apply                           

• How are these Scriptures applicable in your life? Jot it down.

P - Pray                             

• Write a prayer that is relative to the Scriptures for the day.

Y - Yield                            

• Write down what you need to yield in order to make these Scriptures real in your life.

Sunday

2-5:30 PM

Library - Teacher: Galen Whitlatch

Tuesday

9-11:00 AM

Library -

Teacher:

Cindy Davis

Tuesday

6-8:30 PM

Library -

Teacher:

Tommy Toombs

Disciple I: Becoming Disciples Through Bible Study

• Disciple recognizes the human-divine nature of the Bible:
  The actual texts of Scripture were written by human beings like ourselves in their cultural settings, under the divine inspiration of God.
• Disciple affirms that the canon was formed as it is in order for God to speak to us.  
• Disciple gives Old and New Testaments equal time, emphasizing the wholeness of the Bible as the revelation of God.  
• Disciple aims at transformation, not just information.  
• Disciple calls on persons to submit themselves to examination by Scripture, to put themselves under the power of God's word, and to be changed by God's word.
• Disciple invites persons to bring their experiences and struggles to Scripture.  All persons know something is amiss with their existence and yearn for word from God.  
• Disciple uses biblical language and biblical images.  
• Disciple draws upon the work of scholars to aid understanding of the Bible.  
• Disciple requires reading large portions of Scripture based on careful study and preparation.
• During the course of the 34 week study, the group will move through the biblical story from Creation to the New Jerusalem.

Thursday
6-8:00 PM

Room 206

Teacher:

Tommy Toombs

Disciple II: Into The Word Into The World

Into the Word Into the World encourages persons to open themselves to hearing what God has to say to them through the Bible and to be guided into particular ministry in the world by Scripture and their study of it.

This 32-week study selects specific portions of Scripture and goes deeper into them.  Depth study of Scripture will be the work both of individual members and of the group in its weekly meeting.   Equal attention is given to the Old and New Testaments with concentration on four books: Genesis, Exodus, Luke, and Acts, with eight lessons for each book.  Appropriate connections are made to other parts of Scripture both through reading and study assignments and through commentary in the study manual. Participants will read familiar passages, seeing them in fresh ways and expecting God to speak through them.

Thursday

6-8:00 PM

Library -

Teacher:

Merlin Oswalt

Disciple III: Remember Who You Are

Remember Who You Are is the third study in the DISCIPLE program and is available to adults and youth who are graduates of BECOMING DISCIPLES THROUGH BIBLE STUDY.  Resident in the title is the driving idea in this study--the connection between memory and identity as the people of God is brought to light in Disciple III.

The word You in the title is meant to be heard both in its singular form and its plural form.  We are a community of memory.  Several themes weave their way through the study--the call to remember; the call to repentance; the need for renewed vision; and the place of community. The prophets and Paul are continually calling hearers and readers back to their God and to a sense of who they are as a people "set apart". The prophets and the community cannot be separated. The prophets spoke for God, out of the community, and to the community. Paul's experience of the risen Lord, his relationship to the community he addressed, his Jewish traditions and the Greco-Roman culture of his day merged in his writing of the Letters. Paul used the language of his culture to carry the message that arose out of his roots in the Hebrew Scriptures and Judaism.

REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE offers the nurture of Scripture and the community of the group. It confronts the persistent questions of the prophets and Paul:  What are the priorities in your life?  What are the priorities of society?  It looks at the world through the lens of Scripture.  It calls for willingness to stand under the judgment of what the prophets have to say.  It recognizes that the Bible shows us how to live as sojourners in a strange land.  It emphasizes the centrality of the command to love God and neighbor. REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE advances the goals and ideals of the Disciple program. It calls clergy and laity to disciplined Bible study that will result in a ministering community nourished by Scripture.

Thursday

6-8:00 PM

Room 207

Teacher:

Karen Carper

Disciple IV: Under The Tree of Life
The Hebrew version of what Christians call the Old Testament has three divisions:

1. Torah (the first five books of the Bible), the Prophets, and the Writings. The Writings include all the books that are not part of the Torah or the Prophets.  The fourth phase of Disciple concentrates on the Writings in the Old Testament - Ruth, 1 and 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon, Lamentations, and Daniel.
2. New Testament Scriptures include the Gospel of John; 1,2,3 John; James; Jude; and Revelation. Emphasis on the Psalms as Israel's hymn book and prayer book leads naturally to an emphasis on worship in the study.
3. And present through the whole study is the sense of living toward completion toward the climax of the message and the promise, extravagantly pictured in the Revelation.
4. Under the Tree of Life completes the four-phase Disciple Bible study. This 32-week study is prepared for adult and youth graduates of Disciple:  Becoming Disciples through Bible Study.

Christian Believer
Christian Believer assumes that most church folk - though faithful followers of Jesus they intend to be - know little of the content of the central teachings of the Christian faith and its ties to Scripture. But, they want to know more.  They want to know what is at stake in what the church teaches and how it makes a difference in their own lives, what it means to be Christian, and where we as Christians stand.

This thirty-week study of the classical doctrines of the Christian faith aims at presenting, explaining, and interpreting Christian doctrine as the basic teaching of the church to the end that informed believing leads to committed discipleship.

Jesus in the Gospels
This study focuses on the portraits of Jesus found in the four Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John).  The word used in the title signals that this study takes an approach different from the familiar "life and teaching of Jesus" approach of reading stories and accounts of what Jesus said and did in order to draw conclusions about their meaning and about who Jesus was. This study looks at the way each Gospel writer presents events and teachings and at the picture of Jesus that emerges in each of the Gospels.

Kingdom People
12-week Wesleyan covenant group. This study is 2-1/2 hours per week and allows participants to connect with not only one another, but also with the Trinity.  Participants will study the Word, sing, pray, and share Holy Communion each week as you go deeper into this spiritual experience.

Tuesday, 9:30-11:00 AM
Room 201

Explorer’s Bible Study  is an interdenominational, in-depth, verse-by-verse study of the Book of Mark. Class starts the Tuesday after Labor Day each year. Explorers has been offered in our community for more than 25 years.

A nursery and adult supervision for any age home-schooler is available during the day class. Contact Rebecca Cockrell at 556-4512 or John and Karen Hendricks at 362-6332 to pre-register or for more information.