Twenty-seven books, one Messiah
The New Testament, book by book
Four Gospels, one history, twenty-one letters, and an apocalypse. This path shows you what kind of writing each one is, who it was addressed to, and how the pieces fit together into a single claim about Jesus.
Built for the days between Sundays
but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.
What you'll come away with
What this path is for
Not a reading streak. These are the things you should be able to do on your own once you have worked through it.
Tell the genres apart
A Gospel is not a letter and a letter is not an apocalypse. You will read each book the way it asks to be read, which removes most of the usual confusion.
Know each letter's occasion
Paul wrote to real churches with real problems. You will be able to say what prompted Galatians, Philippians, or 1 Corinthians before you try to apply it.
See the Old Testament underneath
Nearly every page quotes or echoes Israel's Scriptures. You will start noticing the quotations and understand what the writers were doing with them.
Build a reading rhythm
Twenty to thirty minutes, three times a week, gets you through the whole New Testament in a year with comprehension rather than speed.
How the tutor works
A tutor, not a search box
The same eight habits run through every path. They are what make this study rather than summary.
Questions first
Open a passage and Trinity asks what you noticed. Your reading comes first, then the explanation.
Greek and Hebrew, one tap away
Tap a word to see the Greek or Hebrew behind it. See what it can mean and where else it shows up.
Follow the thread
Pick one image, promise, or line. Follow it from Genesis through the prophets into the Gospels.
Context that clicks
Who wrote it, to whom, and why. Get the background the first readers already knew.
A plan that bends
Miss a week and nobody guilt-trips you. Your plan fits the time you actually have and picks up where you left off.
Bring your doubts
Ask the question you'd never ask out loud. Trinity takes it seriously, no judgment.
Pick up the thread
Every session ends with a short recap of what you read and what's worth coming back to.
Every side, fairly told
On baptism, the end times, and more, you get the main views and their best arguments. Disputed questions are labelled as disputed.
The path itself
What you'll study, in order
Each unit builds on the one before it. Lessons live inside Trinity; this is the shape of the ground you will cover.
Four portraits of Jesus
Why four Gospels and not one
Mark: the shortest and probably the first
Matthew for a Jewish readership
Luke's orderly account
John's different angle
Reading the passion narratives side by side
The church begins
Acts 1 to 7: Jerusalem
Acts 8 to 12: the message crosses lines
Acts 13 to 20: Paul's journeys
Acts 21 to 28: trial, voyage, Rome
What Acts is and is not prescribing
Paul's letters
How to read an ancient letter
Galatians and the circumcision crisis
Romans as Paul's fullest argument
The Corinthian correspondence
Prison letters: Ephesians to Philemon
Pastoral letters to Timothy and Titus
The other letters
Hebrews and the better covenant
James on faith that works
Peter on suffering well
John's letters on love and truth
Jude and false teachers
Revelation and the end
Apocalyptic as a genre
The seven churches
Images, numbers, and what they meant then
Where Christians disagree about the timeline
New creation as the last word
I've led a small group for six years, and honestly I was mostly repeating Sunday's sermon. Trinity kept asking what the passage actually said before it would tell me anything. Our Thursday nights are better for it.
I was baptized in March and still couldn't find anything in the Bible. I asked what a psalm even is, which felt embarrassing to type. It showed me Psalm 13, a man complaining to God. I didn't know that was allowed.
I mostly use it for word study. When I'm stuck on a Greek term, it walks me through what it can mean without pretending the question is settled. It's told me "scholars disagree here" more than once, which I respect.
Forty years in church and I'd never finished the Bible. I'm in Numbers now. Not thrilling, but I'm still going. Most days I read it before the kettle's boiled.
I'm not sure I believe any of it yet. I came in wanting to argue, and I still do. It argues back properly. It names the best objection before I can, and it doesn't sulk when I won't concede.
I ask it what a fifteen-year-old would really ask about a chapter. It gives me the awkward questions, not the tidy ones. Twice now it's sent me off to study properly, which I suppose is the point.
I read on my phone during my eleven-minute break, and it never tries to make it an hour. Last week it caught that I'd misread who was speaking in Job. It was one of the friends, not God. Changed the whole chapter for me.
I work in two languages, so I'm fussy about words. I asked why one Hebrew word is lovingkindness in one place and steadfast love in another. I got a real answer about hesed, not a devotional paragraph.
I worried it would hand my people easy answers to hard chapters. It mostly doesn't. Someone asked it about hell, and it laid out what Christians have held and said plainly which parts are disputed. I can work with that.
I sit with dying people, so I don't have much patience for cheerfulness. I'd been avoiding the lament psalms. It walked me through Psalm 88, which ends in the dark and stays there, and it didn't rush to fix it.
I'd abandoned three reading plans before this one. I went quiet for a while, came back, and it just carried on. No lecture. I'm in Isaiah now.
Before you start
Questions people ask about this path
Mark is usually the better door. It is the shortest, it moves fast, and it assumes less. Matthew makes more sense once you have met Jesus in Mark and know the Old Testament well enough to hear the quotations.
Luke is describing what happened more often than prescribing what must happen. Christians disagree about which parts are normative. Trinity shows you where the disagreement runs and lets you weigh it.
No. Trinity will tell you when a Greek word is doing something English cannot carry, and show you the options translators chose between. That is different from needing to learn the language.
Yes, and it works well. Trinity is meant for the days between Sundays. It is not a replacement for teaching, for community, or for a pastor who knows your name.
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The first unit is free, and you do not need to know anything going in. Trinity will ask what you noticed before it explains a thing.
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