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Welcome to the pages for Bible Teaching Stream at St.Mark's. These sessions have been happening every second Sunday of the month in the evenings.  We have tried to mix in-depth teaching of the Bible with the accessibility of being able to question the Bible teacher and make comments. The sessions had a two part structure with a speaker teaching on a whole book of the Bible, followed by a discussion where anyone can comment or question the teacher.

In the menu on the right you will find the videos and audio from previous Bible Stream sessions, along with other additional resources. Please note that videos don't seem to play when using Firefox browser, so you would need to either download the file, or use another browser such as Edge or Chrome.  All the audio is fine in any browser.

The evenings started at 6.30pm with the teaching, which was typically 30 to 45 minutes.  We then opened up to comments and questions, finishing usually between 7.40pm and 8pm.

We live streamed to Facebook and YouTube and responded to questions and comments on Facebook as well as in the building.

Link to St Mark's' Facebook is HERE (facebook.com/stmarksgillingham)
Link to St Mark's' YouTube is HERE

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Next session...  This will be very different! To celebrate finishing every book of the Bible, we will be part of the main morning service in church on 21st January 2024 - David Wilkins will be teaching on the letter of Jude, and we will be talking about the legacy of resources that we have built up.
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We want to let the Bible speak for itself, and not use Bible stream to make a personal point or promote a hobby horse. Indeed it is important that we point out where the Bible challenges any tradition, and to be ready to allow it to slaughter our sacred cows.
Tom Wright has described this approach in this way:

"...to pay the fullest possible attention to scripture in both its details and its broad sweep, and to allow the biblical writers to set the agenda rather than forcing on them a scheme of thought that does not do them justice. This task is made harder still by the traditions of thought, prayer, spirituality, and ethics in various parts of the church. Here again my aim is always to allow scripture to enter into dialogue with traditions, including those traditions that think of themselves as biblical, and to critique them when they are less than fully in accordance with scripture.”
Paragraph 1, Chapter 5, Surprised by Scripture, N.T. Wright, ISBN 978-0-06-223054-6

Bible Stream Statistics
On Sunday 21st January 2024, we celebrated having come to an end of teaching on every book of the Bible at St Mark's through Bible Stream.  Bible Stream has happened monthly since 2017.  The audios (before Covid), and livestreams (after Covid) for teaching on the 66 books of the Bible have been downloaded a total of 41,330 times (as at January 2024).  For more data CLICK HERE


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