This program builds upon the Bible Survey program and is available to both men and women. Church workers and volunteers will be trained and simultaneously prepared for the EBTC’s Expository Preaching and/or Biblical Counseling programs. Students can take what they learn in this program with its curriculum and directly and profitably use it in their churches.

“Do you understand what you are reading?“ – Acts 8:30

Reading the Scripture is good and right, but in order for us to live by it and teach it, reading alone is not enough. We must also understand it, because “The meaning of the Scripture is the Scripture” (John MacArthur, “Can We Know What the Scripture Means?“). 

In Acts 8, Philip asked the Ethiopian eunuch a crucial question: “Do you understand what you are reading?” In the Bible Survey program, the foundation for understanding the Bible was laid as the students learned to examine entire books of the Bible and make observations about individual texts. The Profitable Bible Study program takes those principles further, as students are taught to understand the statements, purposes, and application of the text in order to live in light of and be able to teach it – in personal devotions, in the family, in Sunday School, in children’s or youth ministries, or in various small groups.