What is the Holy Bible?

The Bible is a collection of 66 books bound in a single cover. It is the word-of-God revealed to people, and teaches us about God and how we should respond to him.

The Bible contains several forms of writing, including poetry, narration, history, law, and prophecy and must be interpreted in thecontext of these styles.

The first 39 books contain the Old Testament. This is the Bible as Jesus would have known it, and it contains many predictions about the coming of Jesus.

The remaining 27 books form the New Testament and include four accounts of the life of Jesus, written from differing viewpoints, and an account of the spread of the Gospel.

Bible Study

The Holy Bible is the key reference book for Christians. Anyone wanting to understand the Christian faith needs to take part in some organised Bible study, and for that reason we provide a variety of ways in which Bible Study may take place. These include:

Weekly study groups in people's homes - some groups meet in the daytime and others in the evening so that everyone is catered for. The picture below is one such group that meets on Wednesday mornings.
Groups that meet in our meeting room on a regular basis. Again there are both daytime and evening groups
Special occasion study groups - the banner picture at the top was a group meeting that took place one day a week for the six weeks of Lent. The same study took place at lunch time and in the evening, again to cater for everyone's needs.
Bible study notes. These are notes written for private study at home and will take the user ten to fifteen minutes a day.
Teaching as part of a service in church. Services will normally include one or more readings from the bible and a sermon will pick up the themes of the readings and interpret them for daily living.

A bible study group