God gave you two minds: two completely different sets of mental wiring. Your rational side gets along fine reading the words of scripture on a black-and-white page. But your emotional brain thinks in color: it needs pictures and experiences to grasp the Word. If you aren't intentionally adding color, feelings, visualization, and identification to the way you study, you're only reading half the Bible!
How To Read the Bible Like a Human Being shows you this missing side of scripture, the part that can only be known through your emotional brain. And here's the good news: studying scripture with the other half of your brain makes the Bible come to life, and it makes Bible study fun!
How to Read the Bible Like a Human Being is a Bible study curriculum that opens up a whole new side of scripture. Since your emotional brain learns from image and experience, the best way to explain it is to let you experience it.
Or, read this deeply moving narrative (written by a participant!) that shows how we use the power of story to identify intimately with Jesus, his disciples and others in scripture.
It's all discussion-based. No boring talking-head teachings.
See where it happened with videos shot on-site in Israel.
Tell a character's story and you are also telling your own. Things get real quickly!
You'll experience Jesus' life on earth with him, and understand his human side much more deeply.
There's so much to discover that it takes three sessions to cover one passage!
We learn by connecting our experiences with scripture... so everyone has something to offer.
We've got all the materials you need to bring this life-giving approach to Bible study to your church. And since it's quite unique, we'd love for you to experience it for yourself first. So here's a free offer: you are invited to join one of our on-line study groups. You can come and soak it in for two whole sessions, absolutely free.
And if you start a group in your church, you can keep on coming to our sessions for free! That way you'll get to go through each study with experienced facilitators before you lead it yourself! Click below for more details and to sign up.
“This really opened my eyes… before you read and it just went over your head. Reading the bible like a human being makes you stop and think about the story and put yourself in the characters’ shoes. Writing the narrative is where it comes to life! It has totally transformed my daily walk, because it gives a focus to my contemplation. I’m still thinking about scenes I heard when others read their narratives—every time I read those passages I’ll remember them. They stay with you in a way that last month’s sermon just doesn’t.”
“Scripture comes alive in this as I experience it through my own real-life experience. Jesus integrates our personal lives into these stories, which makes it more real.”
"The video and the cultural background created lots of ‘aha’ moments for the group. These were all very new ideas for a group of people who have been walking with God for a long time. For everyone, the Bible story historically never fully made sense, but now they really began to get it... One person wrote her [first] story from the perspective of the Syrophoenecian woman’s daughter who was healed. There wasn’t a dry eye in the house after hearing that story!"
The book How to Read the Bible Like a Human Being will give you an in-depth understanding of this ground-breaking approach to studying scripture. You'll learn:
