For over a decade, SEAN’s overview of
the Bible (Abundant Light, now called Pure Gold) has been used all over the
world to ground Christians in understanding and using the most important book
ever written. Now updated and modernised, the new Pure Gold provides the church
with an invaluable small group learning tool. The course contains ten
home-and-group studies which takes growing Christians on a journey through the
books of the Bible, teaching its make-up and demonstrating the unity, integrity
and application of its unchanging message.
Pure Gold gives an excellent grounding in an overall knowledge and understanding
of all the books of the Bible, and how they fit together to give us a wonderful
picture of God's plan for mankind.
What relevance has the land of Ur,
the time lines, the dividing of the kingdoms and Joseph’s imprisonment to us
today?
All of these jewels and many more
will unfold as you begin your journey with Abraham as he leaves all he has known
to set out to follow the call that God has placed on his life.
The story comes alive as you begin to
understand that God’s promises given to this great man of God, 2000 years before
Christ, stretch through history to their fulfilment in Christ. The Holy Spirit
begins to minister in special ways through this course, taking head knowledge on
into the context of a living faith as you look not only at God’s promises but
also at his commands and warnings.
The excitement and anticipation grows
as Joseph becomes the main character; we see his courage and perseverance
through trials; and his compassion for his brothers as he forgives them for all
that they had done against him. We follow the people of Israel into Egypt until
they are released from bondage and begin another stage of history marked by God
parting hte waters of the Red Sea and setting them towards the promised land.
Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and
Deuteronomy now begin to make more sense. The journey is divided into four
stages as we unravel the meaning of the covenant, the promises that the
Israelites made before God and the consequences of their breaking the promises.
We climb Mount Sinai before descending to wander in the desert for 40 years
eventually reaching the plains of Moab. We say goodbye to Moses, and meet
another great leader, Joshua. As we face battles and giants with this man we are
again reminded of God’s grace and power to conquer our own enemies of pride,
jealousy, anger etc and pereserve with His calling.
If this isn’t enough to whet your
appetite for this wonderful course, how about learning the five proofs of the
Bible’s reliability, how it was written, the background of the New Testament and
so it goes on.
All is set out in the clearest and simplest way, yet at the same time is
profound in its teaching. It is an ideal course, especially as part of a
discipleship programme, to follow on from the Life to the Full (older version
was published as Abundant Life) course, or as a follow-up for Alpha groups.
Its aims Pure Gold aims to introduce the student to this fascinating book, the Bible,
and to explain its overall plan and teaching in a way the student can
understand, so that it is seen to be totally relevant to us; to encourage the
students to apply its teaching to their lives and ministry today.
The course will help students to do this by: Showing the continuing relevance of the Bible to each Christian's life,
witness and ministry, today.
Forming the habit of systematic
and disciplined reading of the scriptures.
Demonstrating different methods
of Bible study.
Showing how to apply the Bible's
teaching in practical situations.
Training the student to use the
Bible as a sword.
Emphasising that God's word is
like a lamp to guide our steps
each day.
Teaching that the Bible can be
read as a letter that shows His love.
Emphasising that Christ is coming
again.
We would hope and expect that,
through this course, students will go on to read the Bible regularly for
themselves.
The curriculum includes an explanation of:
When, why, and how the different
books were written
