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If you make my word your home you will indeed be my disciples.
--John 8:31 The Jerusalem Bible

The DISCIPLE Bible Study program is our featured long term study group. Disciple 1 is an in-depth Bible study class where students read over 70% of the Bible in 34 weeks. Students discover how they are connected to all of God's people throughout history and how they fit into his plan. Eight to ten students start disciple as lone persons growing closer together and closer to Jesus Christ as the course progresses. DISCIPLE aims at transformation, not just information.  The class concludes in May with a 2 day retreat. OUMC offers Disciple 1 starting each August. Each student has a study manual with biblical reading assignments six days a week and a 2 1/2 hour meeting once a week.  Registration begins this Summer for the August class. Contact the 581-6853 or click here to email us for more information or visit the DISCIPLE link at Cokesbury.com for information about the course. 

OUMC also periodically offers Disciple 2, 3, and 4. Those who have completed Disciple 1 may continue their study in the other Disciple classes in any order.

Christian Believer concentrates on the classical doctrines of the Christian faith—those that emerged in early Christianity as it struggled to understand its Scripture and its experience of Jesus, and that have remained central to church teaching through the centuries.  These basic Christian beliefs distinguish Christians from other people and Christianity from other faiths.  Christian Believer groups consist of twelve members and a leader and meet weekly for 2 ½ hours for a period of 30 weeks.  Each participant makes a commitment to daily preparation involving 30-45 minutes of study six days a week and weekly attendance at and full participation in the group study session.  The goal of Christian Believer is to make available to people the substance of the Christian faith that the church has confessed as a way of connecting to God and living faithfully. 

Jesus in the Gospels: Jesus in the Gospels focuses on the portraits of Jesus found in the four Gospels—Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.   The word in used in the title signals that this study takes an approach different from the familiar “life and teaching of Jesus” approach of reading stories and accounts of what Jesus said and did in order to draw conclusions about their meaning and about who Jesus was.  Participants should expect to spend 45-60 minutes in daily study six days a week for thirty weeks and 2 ½ hours per week attending and participating in the scheduled weekly meetings.  This study looks at the way each Gospel writer presents events and teachings and at the picture of Jesus that emerges in each of the Gospels.  (Disciple I is a prerequisite to this study.)