Community bible study


Our mid week Community Bible Study meets online via Zoom on Wednesdays 7:00-7:50pm. Our time together is primarily one of discussion, following an initial time of teaching and exposing the unique and problematic elements in the selected text.  The principal goal is to teach skills and resources to help read the scripture texts thoughtfully through their historical meaning, vocabulary, Biblical intertextuality in view of glimpsing what they might mean for us today. Any and all are invited.



We meet each week to read the scripture text for worship together and dialogue about it - wrestling with what the scripture says and means for us. As Jacob wrested with the Angel in Genesis 22, refusing to stop striving until he left blessed with greater understanding and vision.


Each week you can find a downloadable study sheet, with examen questions, that we'll use in our conversation around the text.  This class space is not a lecture, but a discussion; a chance for those who gather in community to strive with the text, reading it through our own experiences, life together and spiritual journeys.



Pastor Monte will post textual study notes (similar to a Talmudic text) here that you can use for your own private reflection or bring with you to the class.  You can also engage the text via Monte's weekly blog posting, which seeks to flesh out principal interpretations of the text of the week for our life today. BLOG LINK to montemcclain.com or to CAPCOakland.me.




Join the Zoom Call for Wrestling with Scripture through this LINK

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The prophet and book of amos

Here some tools and resources for our reading of Amos.

Video Introduction to Amos by the good pepole at the Bible Project.

An Inductive Bible Study that we’ll use as our class outline. CLICK HERE.

Written Guide to Amos by the Bible Project. CLICK HERE.

A Commentary explaining the history and culture within the text. CLICK HERE.

Amos Bible Study Notes - Maps - other resources (more than you need!)

Maps for understanding the world in which Amos lived:

CLASS READING SCHEDULE

The Book of Doom 1:1-4:13

Wednesday, January 29 | Amos 1:1-2:8 (The 8 Nations)


Wednesday, February 5 | Amos 2:9-3:8 (Oracles Against the Whole of Israel and Some Riddles)

Wednesday, February 12 (The Book of Woes)

Wednesday, February 19

Wednesday, February 26 (The Book of Vision)

Wednesday, March. ? (Epilogue)