REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE
Resident in the title of this small group study is the driving idea in this study – the connection between memory and identity as the people of God. We are a community of memory. Several themes weave their way through the study: the call to remember, the call to repentance, the need for renewed vision, and the place of community. DISCIPLE III is a thirty-two week study, sixteen classes on the prophets and sixteen classes on Paul’s letters. Giving equal attention to the Old Testament and the New Testament supports the assumption of the DISCIPLE program that the two testaments form a whole, that the God of the prophets is the God of Paul, and that God’s offer of salvation runs throughout the whole Bible.
Old Testament
The prophets and the community cannot be separated. The prophets spoke for God, out of the community, to the community.
New Testament
Paul’s experience of the risen Lord, his relationship to the community he addressed, his Jewish traditions, and the Greco-Roman culture of his day merged in his writing of the letters. Paul used the language of his culture to carry the message that arose out of his roots in the Hebrew Scriptures and Judaism.
