The Bible on Trial~

Where has the time gone?

Thrity years ago Rick Sterling started a church Bible study class, that met in the kitchen of our church, because every other available space was already occupied. Because of his independent study Rick thought that he would have enough new material (that was totally different than what was being taught you our church at the time) to last maybe three to six months, and then he would be done. The reception of the church leadership to this new class was  benign at first. But because of the quality of the content, the class grew until the kitchen was full to overflowing with people that had initially come just to 'test the waters', and stayed because they were being fed spiritual food that was not only different than what was being presented at the church at large, but was a totally different way of looking at how Scripture could (and should) be understood, in light of the words that Jesus spoke, as opposed to what others in the Bible said was truth.

The interviening years have been filled with both abject rejection of this content by the church leadership, the very people that say that have all the truth 'fit to print'; and acceptance by by people that came to the class with open minds and hearts, and learned a "Truth" that moved counter to what was being taught from the pulpit.

Rick, and members of the different kind of Sabbath-school class, were eventually asked to leave, and no longer hold the class on church property, because what was being taught in the class was showing that what was being taught at church by the pastors and lay leaders was NOT the Truth, after all.

Thirty years later this class is now named Spirit of Truth Ministry, with weekly podcasts The Bible on Trial, and The Revelation of Jesus, that is heard on Blog Talk Radio all over the world.