Students of the Word
To be a Christian is to be a student. The word “disciple” means “student”, and before he ascended to Heaven, Jesus’s final command to his students was that they should go into all the world and teach, making more students (Matthew 28:19-20). As Christians in the modern world, our calling is still to be students of Jesus and to help each other in fellowship as we learn about Him and from Him. We are to be Students of the Word, studying the Bible, the written word of God, as we walk as the disciples of Jesus, the living Word.
My name is Corey Olsen, and I am hosting a Bible study open to anyone who would like to join me as a Student of the Word. Would you like to join me for a patient, thoughtful, and prayerful study of the Bible together, reading whole books verse by verse?
- Update frequency
- every 10 days
- Average duration
- 84 minutes
- Episodes
- 90
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
Episode 10: Words and Actions
Having heard a couple times now about lies and self-deception through things we might say, we now learn about a positive use for speech: one that connects our unrighteousness with the righteousness o…
Episode 9: Leading Yourself Astray
In verse 8, John seems to address the question of sinlessness head-on. We spend a good deal of time working out the parallels between verse 6 and verse 8, looking at walking in darkness and John's ap…
Episode 8: Christians Are Not Your In-Laws
This week we follow up with a longer discussion of verse 7, considering the promise that it contains which completely transforms the otherwise rather terrifying message of verse 6. We discuss the sy…
Episode 7: Doing the Truth
Light and darkness, truth and lies: John's language here is pretty stark and uncomfortably uncompromising here in verse 6. In this episode we confront this difficult verse, and, glancing ahead, we ca…
Episode 6: The Suspiciously Simple Message
In this session we discussed not one but two verses. In verse 5, we finally get to the message, the proclamation itself that John has been setting up in the first four verses. But it sounds like we m…
Episode 5: The Fullness of Joy
In this session we finished discussing the first paragraph of 1 John 1, looking at the significance of joy's fulness and the awesomeness of John's pronoun usage.
For those following (more or less) l…
Episode 4: The Purpose of the Proclamation
Today we get to the main verb and finish the whole first sentence of 1 John! John announces his intention to proclaim ... something, but then instead of actually proclaiming it, he explains why he i…
Episode 3: Life, Revealed
Having just mentioned the Word of Life stuff, John interrupts himself in 1:2 to tell us more, not about the Word, but about the Life, and how it is related both to us and to God.
Also, we have sta…
Episode 2: You Know, Word of Life Stuff
In this session, we discuss the rest of 1 John 1:1 (yep, the whole verse!). Questions discussed: Which arche? Who is the "we" in all these clauses? What is the logic of the progression of the noun …
Episode 1: What We Are (and Are Not) Doing Here
In this first episode, Corey gives an introduction to the Bible study, explaining what we are and are not setting out to do in these sessions. After answering a lot of questions, we do finally start…