This Covenant experience will guide participants in a comprehensive, in-depth study of the Bible over twenty-four weeks. Unlike the learning participants may have experienced in other groups, this in-depth study of the whole Bible emphasizes the biblical concept of
covenant as a unifying pattern through all the books in the Old and New Testaments. It underscores the unique relationship that God chooses to have with us as God’s people. This relationship is grounded in the faithfulness of God’s love and on our ongoing commitment to stay in love with God while we share signs of that love with others.
The cohosts for these twenty-four video episodes are Reverend Shane Stanford, senior pastor at Christ United Methodist Church in Memphis, Tennessee, and Reverend Christine Chakoian, senior pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Lake Forest, Illinois. They will meet with a different biblical scholar in each video episode.
Each video in the coming weeks features a conversation between the hosts and a biblical scholar around the Covenant table. Their conversation is a model for the kind of learning dynamic that is central to this study.
Episode 1: Creating the Covenant
Relationships with
people in our lives are key to faithful living. Covenant is about the
family God creates and the power of love that overcomes evil. We are
broken and miss the mark. Substitutes for faithful love destroy our
relationships. Yet God’s response to broken relationships is to restore
us to wholeness. Through the shared practice of reading and interpreting
the Bible scripture in holy conversation, we sharpen our understandings
until they become more accurate and relevant. And we learn about God’s
gracious love and how to share it with others.
Running time: 6:55
Individual video episodes are
available to purchase for streaming to computers and mobile devices from https://www.cokesbury.com.
Videos can also be purchased and played within the Covenant Bible Study app for
Apple and Android mobile devices.
In
addition to the twenty-four episodes of streaming video (more than seven
hours of video) are twenty additional streaming videos and ten streaming
storytelling videos from https://www.cokesbury.com.
To
stream a purchased video, login with your cokesbury.com user account, click on
My Cokesbury.com, and select Downloads/Subscriptions.
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Questions? Visit http://www.covenantbiblestudy.com for more information.
