Hello Crosswalk Forums community! We’re always looking for new ways to build connection, spark conversation, and grow together as a community, and we’d love your input!
What kinds of live or interactive events would you enjoy seeing here?
Maybe it’s…
A live Bible study…an AMA with a ministry leader…Some fun Bible trivia or games…Or something completely different!
Cast your vote in the poll below, and feel free to share more ideas in the comments.
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The Great Commission (cf. Matt. 28:18-20; Luke 24:46-47; Acts 1:8) mandates both evangelism and discipleship. Bob has been involved in both of these for more than 50 years. He has participated in at least 45 international evangelistic crusades where thousands of people trusted Christ. Although these crusades were wonderful evangelistic experiences, a lack of follow-up materials for discipleship was evident to him. God’s will is for “disciples,” not decisions only! He saw the absence of Bible studies resources in other countries that were affordable and of good quality. This was a burden on his heart and he was willing to help remedy this problem.
While teaching hermeneutics in an OMS seminary in Haiti, God spoke to Bob’s heart about providing his Bible studies free to the world. He structured his commentaries to provide an in-depth resource for churches, pastors and lay people. The Bible studies emphasize the original author’s intent, by means of: (1) literary context, (2) the historical setting, (3) word study options, (4) grammar features, (5) genre, and (6) parallel passages.
Several years ago Bob’s commentaries were included in the Logos Bible Study Software. Soon after, Logos contacted Bob on behalf of Dr. Bill Bright (Founder of Campus Crusade for Christ) to include his NT commentaries on a CD-Rom of training material for CCC ministers. They planned to translate them into 50 languages and give them away free of charge. However, Bill Bright went to be with Jesus before the project was finished. Because of his experience in Haiti and the anticipation of the project with CCC, Bob felt this was Divine direction for him to pursue this new task of providing Bible studies free to the worldwide Body of Christ.
Bible Lessons International now produces exegetical commentaries and other Bible study aids in 48 languages and puts them online free for the world. You can:
read them online
download them to your hard drive
print them out
Bob has earned academic degrees from
East Texas Baptist College
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary with Biblical Languages
Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
Has done post-graduate work at Baylor University
Wycliffe Bible Translators’ Summer Institute of Linguistics
He has pastored several churches in Texas and has been Interim Pastor of over 20 churches in Texas and Louisiana. Bob taught for 16 years in the Religion Department at East Texas Baptist University. Currently he conducts Bible Conferences and Revivals in the U.S. and abroad, mostly by zoom. About the Author.
Oh yes, absolutely… I mean the kind of deep hermeneutical and exegetical studies that really press into the text, for example tracing how a Greek verb functions across Pauline letters, following an Old Testament motif through its full canonical development, working through a passage with lexical, syntactical, and contextual analysis, or examining how a theme unfolds from Torah to Prophets to Writings and then into the New Testament.
Know what I mean?
Nouns, verbs, Imperatives, indicatives…
@JennyLynne
I voted on other and feel I owe an explaintion. I would like to hear christian music through the forums, perhaps selectable by type to individuals or as a group.(ie., rock, contemporary, etc.) if possible. Embedded perhaps? I think it could prompt many a good discussions.
