New Bible Study Will Unite All Adventist Church Platforms in South America

For Seventh-day Adventist who want to teach others about the Bible, a new online study platform will be launched during Holy Week 2021, which begins on March 28. The new platform aims to connect to all the Church's digital offerings, including Feliz7Play , 7cast , Quiero Vida y Salud with a goal of reaching young adults.

"Young people want to know how biblical teachings, and not just concepts, can be applied to daily life," explains Pastor Herbert Boger, director of the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s Personal Ministries department for eight nations in South America.

This Bible study wants to help users form daily Bible study habits. According to Boger, for a Christian to have consistent growth in his fellowship with God, he must spend at least four days a week studying this book.

All content is based on the life of Jesus. Under the title "Jesus, the restorer of life," 20 lessons seek to involve the student from the first weeks in the activities of the local church and create identification with the community and the Adventist lifestyle.

“We don't want to just pass on doctrinal knowledge; from the beginning, we want to pass the concept of a restored connection to God and beginning a new life with Jesus," Boger said.

Help in teaching

To assist the instructors during the studies, Pastor Luís Gonçalves, Adventist Church divisional evangelist, will present stories from each lesson and will also make the appeal at the end of each lesson.

The Seventh-day Adventist Church offers a variety of content platforms about the Bible. Among them is the Digital Bible School, which uses a message application to answer biblical questions both in an automated way, with “Esperanza,” a virtual assistant, as well as through instructors.

The next step is to transform that platform into a personalized application that allows volunteers to pray and connect with people who want to know more about the Bible. Its launch in the mobile version will only be in 2021, but the content can already be accessed at estudiolabiblia.com .

The main function of the new application is to match those interested in the Bible with instructors through geolocation. The intention is to have one instructor per church at the beginning and then one representative per small group. This will form a network of people willing to teach others, organizers hope.

This article was originally published on the South American Division’s Portuguese news site