With the Context in view, your Bible study will soar into new thrills and convictions. During session, you choose from the following LIVE offerings:

• The Cultural/Historical Context. Our NT was written to audiences that lived in a particular cultures that will help you make great sense of your NT studies.

• The Redemptive Context. Just as a typical Rom Com has a plot line of “boy meets girl; boy loses girl, boy gets girl back; they live happily ever after” so the grand narrative of the Bible has story arch that leads to a beautiful conclusion. When each story of our NT fits into the grand narrative, it springs into its full beauty.

• The OT Context. “I’ll be back.” “Toto, I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore.” “Nobody puts Baby in the corner.” “There’s no crying in baseball.” Sure we can quote these movie lines. We even know how they fit into our conversations to make us think about much more than the line itself but the whole plot line of the scene or the movie. That’s how the main characters and writers of our NT knew the OT. They oozed OT allusions all throughout all they said and wrote. So if you want to really see the NT come into full view, grab the OT.

• The Literary Context. Location, location, location…it matters in Bible real estate, too. You’ll learn to follow the flow of narratives and arguments to see the how passages pop with this view.

• The Supernatural Context. We Westerners have a Natural bias that blinds us to some of the more profound truths of the NT

• The Communal Context. Just as you can’t tell a fish it’s in water, it’s that difficult to tell us that we’re steeped in an individualistic mindset that redirects most of what we read in our NT. But, hey, we’ll try to unveil our prejudice here to embrace the full power of the NT