Read the New Testament in Greek — not word by word, but passage by passage

If you're reading this, you probably already know the feeling. You spent a semester — maybe two — working through a Greek textbook. You memorized vocabulary lists, drilled paradigms, parsed verbs in carefully constructed exercises. And then you opened your Greek New Testament and found that the gap between what you'd learned and what was on the page felt wider than you expected.

That's not a failure of effort or intelligence. It's a structural gap in how Greek is usually taught. Introductory courses give you the grammar; they rarely give you the reading. And reading — sustained, fluent, independent reading — is a different skill. It has to be trained differently.

That's what this school is built to do. I designed it because I've seen, again and again, how many serious students of the New Testament plateau right after their introductory course. They can parse. They can decode. But they don't yet have the strategies, the exegetical instincts, or the independent habits that allow them to sit down with a passage and read it — to hear the participles carrying their weight, to feel the force of a conditional, to notice when Paul's sentence architecture is doing something remarkable. Those skills are learnable. This curriculum teaches them.

What you'll find here isn't a grammar course in disguise. You'll work through real New Testament texts across every major genre and author. You'll learn to use scholarly tools — editions, lexicons, grammars, digital platforms — intelligently and critically, including learning to recognize when appeals to the Greek in a commentary are responsible and when they're not. You'll compare translations, evaluate interpretive arguments, and develop the kind of judgment that comes only from actually reading the text rather than consulting it.

And you'll build something that outlasts any single course: a sustainable, personal Greek reading practice. A plan. A vocabulary habit. The confidence to keep going into more advanced study, or simply to read a chapter of John or Romans in Greek every morning for the rest of your ministry or life.

The goal has always been the same: to read Scripture faithfully, in its own language. Everything in this curriculum is in service of that. I'd be honored to walk through it with you.