The Great Commission shows how our stories are reflections of ancient stories in the Bible and teaches participants how to share their own stories with friends, neighbors and coworkers, making disciples who make disciples. Our Spiritual Gifts provides a guided tour of assessing spiritual gifts, defining ministers as “all of us” and instilling the importance of personal involvement in ministry, both in and beyond the congregation. This video, when combined with courses I and Episcopal Worship, provides training for confirmation that may be completed in 11 one-hour sessions, three afternoon classes or a weekend retreat. A Path to Spiritual Maturity includes an in-depth discussion about the importance of Bible study and different forms of prayer, both personal and corporate. The Baptism segment may be used as a stand-alone piece. A Journey of Faith includes basic information about the Bible, the Trinity, the Kingdom of God, who Jesus is, the Creeds and Baptism. It can be shown to newcomers, visitors and life-long Episcopalians to explain the symbolism in our worship and the polity of the Church. The Path to Episcopal Worship includes an instructed Eucharist, a history of the Episcopal Church and information about the Church’s traditions and governance. Each course has two to four segments (about 15 minutes), each of which is intended to be followed by group work (about 45 minutes), led by a local facilitator, using copies of the Facilitator’s and Participants’ Guide. Materials include five courses, a facilitator’s video (how to set up the classroom), and downloadable Facilitator’s/Participants’ pages. No particular training is needed for someone to facilitate the group except preparation for each class. Some segments may be used to enhance your current education programs, such as Baptism preparation, adult education programs, prayer, or for your Sunday Christian formation hour.Ī facilitator’s video and workbook pages with small group lessons are also included with the series. You may structure an hour-long program, several morning-long classes or a weekend retreat to complete the confirmation class from the first 11 segments. The Discovery Series: A Christian Journey is very flexible. The series is an invitation to spiritual growth and lays the groundwork to begin or continue a spiritual journey. Video Teaching Series in English and Spanishįive courses provide comprehensive training for Baptism, confirmation, spiritual gifts assessment, discipleship and worship (with instructed Eucharist). A Lutheran Looks At Bible Discovery Series Gods People Series Impact Series NPH Classics The Peoples Bible® Peoples Bible Teachings Slightly Imperfect Bibles. The series places a remarkable resource into the hands of all congregations, regardless of their size or available staff. The Kessel find is a double palimpsest because the parchment was then used a third time.The Discovery Series is designed to help every Christian discover their own path to a life in Christ. A document like this, where one layer of text hides the erased remains of another, is called a palimpsest. But thanks to the scarcity of parchment a couple of hundred years later in the region, that parchment was reused, mostly erasing the original translation of the Biblical New Testament. The long-hidden chapter-an interpretation of Matthew chapter 12-was originally translated as part of what are known as the Old Syriac translations about 1,500 years ago. The new find represents one of the earliest translations of the Gospels. All he needed was ultraviolet photography equipment and plenty of research know-how.Īnnouncing the discovery in a paper published in the journal New Testament Studies, medievalist Grigory Kessel of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW or Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften) found the hidden chapter underneath three layers of text-dubbed a double palimpsest-thanks to ultraviolet photography. The text is one of only four examples of the Old Syriac translation.Ī scientist found a lost portion of Biblical text about 1,500 years after it was initially written.
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