What Is RBS and How Did It Start?
Relational Bible Study (RBS) started in 2014 as a Word-based Study commission from our Lord Jesus Christ to Pastor Tokunbo Oshokoya. It started under a highly informal study setting at the residence of the founding teacher with not more than 15 – 20 participants sharing, studying, and being taught the Word of God.
Over the years, It is now a formally instituted Bible study group under Phitizo Ministries, designed for people of same Spiritual Community (not necessarily defined by physical geographical boundaries or racial limitations), and non-dispensational.
It is forum based on divine instruction which demands the teaching of fresh Word of God among God’s people in a relational format modelled after the teaching style of Jesus Christ unto the 12 disciples as shown in the accounts of the Gospels.
The goal of RBS is to operate as a podium without boundaries, to enable the teaching Grace of Jesus to shepherd serious believers in Christ towards Word study sufficient to deliver quality apostolic servants who are willing to serve God in this dispensation. So, Relational Bible Study or RBS is not a church and does not replace your normal Church Bible study but brings to every serious believer the learning platform to encourage full maturity to impact Bible study of local assemblies with a higher grounding in God’s Word.
Participants come from various church bodies across denominations, and are encouraged to ask questions, prepare their own teaching materials, discipled, and being discipled as teachers of the Word by the founding teacher and other grounded Spiritual leaders.
Scriptural Basis For RBS
In Bible days of the Old Testament, the elders, teachers, and scribes always meet at the gates of cities of Israel to discuss issues. Young ones who are humble and ready to learn are allowed amongst these leaders.
Word testaments and writings in books such as Proverbs and Ecclesiastes were recorded from the sayings of wise men and elders at the City Gates.
In the New Testament, Israelites (under the military occupation of the Romans, the oppressors), were not allowed such traditional practices any longer. So, they created what was then referred to as SYNAGOGUES to replicate the old practices of meetings at the City Gates.
Unfortunately, the order discourse was no-longer the same as some order of religious people called the Pharisees and the Sadducees took over.
For us as believers, the commissioned job of Relational Bible Study (RBS) is to shine the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ as declared in 2 Corinthians 4:6 which says: “For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.”
How To Participate At RBS
👉🏽 Plan to Join the Weekly Zoom Teleconference
Every Wednesdays
and
Every Thursdays
👉🏽 Time:
United Kingdom 05:30pm – 08:00pm
Nigeria 06:30pm – 09:00pm
South Africa 07:30pm – 10:00pm
👉🏽 Zoom Credentials:
ID: 238 926 1564
Password: 432 726
👉🏽 Social Media Handles:
WhatsApp Contact: +234 802 313 4810
