{"id":784567,"date":"2022-08-18T05:00:48","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T10:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/churchanswers.com\/?p=784567"},"modified":"2022-08-18T09:27:17","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T14:27:17","slug":"a-five-tool-bible-to-order-and-enrich-your-bible-reading-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/churchanswers.com\/blog\/a-five-tool-bible-to-order-and-enrich-your-bible-reading-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"A Five-Tool Bible to Order and Enrich Your Bible-reading Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new Bible to be released in September is the result of both a sense of mission and a bit of frustration by Bible teacher Iva May.<\/span><\/p>\n

As she tells it, Iva was frustrated because she had difficulty discovering the connections between the books of the Bible, along with their contexts. She wondered if there was a different way to arrange the content that would allow her to see the connective tissue of God\u2019s grand story in the Bible.<\/span><\/p>\n

Iva explains: \u201cImagine trying to assemble a puzzle without the picture on the box, with the straight-edge pieces and corner pieces missing. You\u2019d be frustrated. That\u2019s how I felt for more than 20 years reading my Bible. I had a bunch of little Bible pieces before me, but I didn\u2019t understand how they were connected.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Iva began developing new resources as she was discipling women in several small groups. She took a seminary course\u2014Chronological Bible Storying\u2014that trained students in the methodology employed by missionaries who worked with primarily oral learners. Iva recognized that most Americans are post-literate, secondarily oral learners who can read but who would rather get their information from media. She was also convicted that without a meta-story, an overarching narrative that makes sense of self and the world, Christians would be prone to follow a lesser story written by a godless culture.<\/span><\/p>\n

Iva adapted what she learned in the course for her discipleship groups and started using her materials in 2002. These experiences and her view of the importance of new resources for Bible learning led Iva to begin the<\/span> Chronological Bible Teaching (CBT)<\/span><\/a> ministry.<\/span> The <\/span>One Year Chronological Study Bible<\/span><\/i><\/a>,\u00a0 published with Tyndale, was developed out of that ministry.<\/span><\/p>\n

The One Year Chronological Study Bible<\/span><\/i><\/a> is so versatile we call it the \u201cfive-tool\u201d Bible: a truly unique combination of tools to transform your reading and study.<\/span><\/p>\n