Beginning a multi-episode focus on various tools to use when approaching the Bible, RVL outlines the differences between Eastern and Western worldviews and how to recognize them in scripture.
RVL introduces how to consider the context of the Bible, unpacking 6 major categories of context and how this affects our understanding of the text.
This episode explores the literary concept of allusion and how it is used throughout the Bible, especially in Jesus’ teaching.
RVL uses the story of Jesus turning water into wine to explain theological chronologies, or how the gospel writers organized their accounts to communicate different messages.
This episode focuses on how God reveals himself and how we join his story, using examples from David’s life and the experience of the disciples.
RVL teaches the story of Jesus healing a blind man who first saw people walking like trees, connecting this miracle to the loaves and fishes experience in the eyes of the disciples.
This episode defines parables and unpacks how they were used in Jewish teaching. It explores a few of Jesus’ parables and looks at him as a teacher.
RVL shifts the focus from various tools to use when studying scripture to introducing the Bible’s central theme: that God’s mission is to bring shalom to chaos.
RVL concludes Season 1 by applying God’s central mission to us as disciples of Christ.