Great Adventure Bible Study at home?

[Larry1700]

Has anyone used the Great Adventure Bible Study at home?

It appears to be designed for parish study groups, but I would like my wife and I to try it at home.

It’s difficult to tell what materials are needed, but I have emailed the company for an answer to that question.

I’d like to know if anyone else has gone through it at home. If so, was it fruitful for you? How much time per night (or week, or whatever) needs to be devoted to it in order to make it work?

 

[Warandpeace]

Hello,

I do not have answers for your questions. I do not have the discipline to bible study without a group, but maybe other people can? I am interested to see what other people have to say.

I might suggest that if you purchase a bible study, you go ahead and lead one for your parish? There are probably some people like me in your parish that need the extra encouragement of having to meet on a regular schedule.

God bless

 

[sousley]

I went through the 8-part in a very small group (4-6 people) setting at the parish. Each session is 1/2 hour DVD presentation and the workbook follows each lesson pretty good. We met once a week, read the material on our own during the week and watched the video together at the meeting and spent 1/2 hour discussing the questions. It does a great job meeting its goal of giving a solid overview of the salvation story.

You would need the DVDs and workbook set that are available on the website. If I were doing it at home with my wife, I would get the DVDs and Instructor or leader packet. This would include the workbook, timeline, bookmark and bracelet. If you decided later to use it in a group setting, you could just purchase “student” workbook packets (no answers) for the participants.

If you did all of the reading covered, you would read 14 books of the bible together. I personally recommend it.

 

[Chiefsinner]

I think it will be quite pricey if you want to do the study at home. Just curious what is the difference between the DVD set and the 23 CD set. They have been priced very differently

ascensionpress.com/t/category/study-programs/catholic-bible-study/adult-bible-study/timeline

Would the CD set @ 149.95 and study kit @ 44.95 be equivalent to the DVD set priced at 399.95?

Does the DVD set have anything additional?

 

[1ke]

Other than the price, I see no reason doing it at home would be a problem. It is video based so you do need the video, leader, and participant guide.

Check with your parish and your diocese. Most dioceses have lending libraries, and your DRE should be able to check out materials from the diocese. Ours has most of the DVDs for these studies available for checkout and then the people just have to buy the study books.

 

[psalm90]

I bought the binder material with the timeline chart, workbook, questions, and answers.

Like other study materials from Ascension Press, it appears that the videos are essential to the course of study. Which is to say, there’s no “book version” of the 14-books of the Bible study program, if I’m making sense here.

I just ordered the DVDs and will try to make some sense of this with home study.

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I don’t know if AP offers it, but the most economical (?) approach might be to buy the printed materials and watch the videos online instead of investing in the DVDs. But, I’m not sure that’s an option at present.