Tennessee-West Kentucky Conference offers seasonal Bible study

The Tennessee-West Kentucky Conference of The United Methodist Church is providing a Bible study for its members.  The title of the work is "Abide in Christ."  It is available as a free download here.   The study has provisions for either individual or small group study.

Abide in Christ is based on the Farewell Discourse of Jesus found in John 15-17.  This body of material contains Jesus' final words of encouragement and instruction to his disciples before his arrest.This passage contains the longest teaching by Jesus in all the gospels.  There are more verses here than in the Sermon on the Mount.  In John's gospel, Jesus has come to a point where he recognizes that he has very little time left with his followers, and he has so much more that he wants to say  And so we have this material before us.

 The study makes provision for examination of the texts, for questioning the meaning of certain passages, and for reflection on what these verses might mean in the life of a modern-day disciple.

The design of the study is that it be used between Easter Day and the Day of Pentecost.  But it is easily adapted to a shorter span.  I encourage you to take advantage of this new offering by our Conference leadership and spend some time with what we might call "Jesus' final instructions."