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THE NARRATIVE EXPERIENCE - Become a truly competent interpreter!

So many view points out there. Content creators, sermons, workbooks, TV programs, claims and counter claims. It's overwhelming and super unclear where to go with it all. Why? Because we have lost our interpretive bearings. Let's begin to fix that and change how we read and how we evaluate theological claims out there, both "in the wild" and in our trusted resources and opinion makers. This package will transform you. It includes THREE COMPONENTS. To use a hiking metaphor: (1) The basecamp: Instead of someone's textbook, we'll use our own dedicated and complete digital course on Hermeneutics (how to become a better interpreter - 30+ mini lectures uploaded so far). (2) The hike: We will have TEN+ successive dedicated LIVE WEBINARS that use the course as their foundation: We will experience interpretive transformation communally. In each webinar, Thorsten summarizes very briefly the pertinent content previously made available, followed by us going deeper, collaboratively and by letting it change us as interpreters - live! We clarify, we illustrate, we expand, we apply, we co-create! (3) The Summit: We also include eligibility for a communal fun get-together at the conclusion of the experience and a personal video call with Thorsten for each participant to let the interpretive transformation sink in and to clarify everyone's needs and wants and outlook in theology and interpretation. To give you an idea: The latest fun social meetup was a weekend spent baking fun stuff in a vintage bakery near Pittsburgh with lots of theological conversations happening on the edges.  WARNING: Following completion of our "Interpret Don't defend!" experience, you are likely to expect higher standards in your interaction with Christian thinkers, content creators, authors and pastors. You will also feel the urge to ask content creators to put their own hermeneutical cards on the table - if they have any!

$450.00 USD

PROJECT JESUS: A digital Bible tool that actually helps YOU, the reader! @60% prelaunch discount

Even the best Study Bibles leave you confused. They speculate on who wrote what when where, before admitting that scholars typically can’t agree on those questions. Then you realize that those questions, even if answered! - wouldn’t actually help with reading the Bible better anyway. So, how do you actually get a head start when it comes to understanding the Bible well? Study Bibles tend to inundate you with cross references and then… leave you hanging. How are you supposed to figure out which alleged connections between biblical texts are real and important and which are just a random overlap of a couple of innocent words that happen to appear in more than one place? Bottom line: Most Study Bibles don’t really deliver what they promise. Instead of making you a better Bible reader, you mostly learn about what scholars debate and where they disagree and where an editor had to draw a line, finally, and say. OK, this is what you’re getting. We’re ready for publication. PROJECT JESUS avoids this entire dilemma by providing to you over a hundred short 3-minute videos (five per New Testament book) exactly what you need to interpret each book of the Bible better. And yes, literally everything we do in life involves interpretation - everything! We intuitively understand this at work. We understand it in friendships. When we watch the news. We are created that way! Wouldn’t it make sense to apply best practice in interpretation to our Bible reading too? PROJECT JESUS does the scholarly work for you and gives you easy access to the most relevant insights. There’s a reason the best of theology attends to bridging the gap between then and now - and the reason is that you and your christian community probably aren’t able to bridge that gap to the first century by yourselves. And without scholarship, frankly, we would not even have Bibles at all. We’d do well to embrace the best of respectful scholarship!  So, let’s cut through the overwhelm and start being transformed into a much improved Bible reader. That’s the real reason why you need PROJECT JESUS! Especially now, with a pre-launch rate that gives you a 60% discount. Why the starter discount? Because we value proof of concept. The more feedback we get, the quicker we can fine-tune the resource. That too is something your Study Bible is unable to do for you. With PROJECT JESUS, there is no need to wait years for the next edition - improvements happen instantaneously. Get it now, grab the massive discount, write this new chapter with us! And be transformed into a competent and confident Bible reader. Your faith and your community will be stronger for it The first few videos are now available on the site. Many more will be added until all New Testament books are covered!

$50.00 USD