Sometimes many good people who would do well and thrive on a study course such as this probably need some special encouragement to commit. They are a bit hesitant whether or not they can make the commitment of time and study.

Here’s an excellent way to get them over that hurdle. If it is impossible to use the Previews of this demo on MissionaryOutpost.com, then you could request the DVD Demo and listen to it first so as to decide what chapters you want to use, depending on the time available. Then maybe after some evening service or whatever appropriate time, organize a short time to show the chapters of the DVD you’ve selected to as large an audience as possible whether they’re interested in studying or not.

It can do wonders, and some people whom you weren’t even considering as prospects may decide to commit! Give it a try! At the least, it can be billed as an interesting and exciting missionary report!

Recently I preached at an Australian church which had run the old Bible History course some eight years ago. I noticed that most of the leaders and responsible ones had been in that old class! Now they are excited about running the new OT Bible History Illustrated course. First they are arranging for the use of a data projector to show the entire DVD Demo to the people on a Sunday night (or nights) and get people to thinking and praying about participating in the course. They are also going to work with those who are afraid of the quizzes and will tell them to go ahead, enroll and if they find the testing program too difficult, then they can just do the weekly work and quizzes for learning purposes, but that they won’t have to take the final term exams, so no worry about grades. Most of the people who fit into that category will, in our experience, after they start studying for the weekly work and feel the motivation of the group atmosphere, end up taking the term exams and finish off for a grade with a certificate of completion! But even those who don’t take the final exams and get a grade, will learn heaps and be so glad they did.

Just last week (August 2008) I heard of a church in the USA which ran the Old Testament course. At first, about half (mainly older people) of the 22 interested students only wanted to audit the course and not do the work. After the first lesson they changed their minds and decided to commit to all the course work. Twenty of the twenty-two students successfully finished the year's course and enthusiastically testify to a year of blessing for having done so!

AFFORDABILITY

We hope you will agree that the course is very affordable. If you just think of what thirty OT DVDs would cost packaged in their lovely albums,or the thirty NT lectures on ten DVDs, then you would agree that the price you're getting them for is more than reasonable! And about the student: if he or she bought two or three substantial books and paid a fee per semester for a good two-semester, college-level course, how would it compare with what this course is going to cost? We're sure you would think it quite affordable! Add on to that the fact that you are getting a Bible course that will allow you to walk through the biblical places with the characters and events you are studying!