In 1955 Joe Mason had a visitation ministry in a small circuit of county jails in Texas (USA). As inmates responded to the Gospel, the need increased for a free Bible correspondence program to help new believers in Christ become grounded in the Scriptures. The result was the establishment of Prison Mission Association (www.prisonmission.org), formed with the goal of reaching prisoners for Christ and helping them study God's Word rightly divided.

Although PMA's primary focus is on America's inmate population, it became apparent that not all of their students were incarcerated. There are also many groups and individuals not directly associated with PMA who are using their materials for prison and non-prison ministries both in and outside the USA. Bible Correspondence Fellowship is the branch of PMA that handles all English correspondence courses. Estudio Bïblico Bereano was established to minister to the Hispanic community through Bible correspondence courses. Today, their student base is drawn from nearly twenty countries spanning all six populated continents.

PMA's home office is located in Port Orchard, Washington (USA) with a regional office in Burnsville, Minnesota (USA) where Pastor Dwight Anderson is located. They have expanded their ministry by making their correspondence lessons available through e-mail and over the Internet.

The English correspondence courses on www.pmabcf.org/lessonlist.html have proven to make clear the distinctions necessary to understand the Word of God. Therefore, BadNewsGoodNews.net wants to promote these lessons through the internet.

Any person is free to reproduce and use these lessons as a tool for training people in the Scriptures. The copyright for these lessons belongs to Prison Mission Association. The lessons may be reformatted but the content of the questions may not be changed other than to correct spelling or grammatical errors.

BadNewsGoodNews.net has received the introductory Bible lesson of this Bible course in Simplified Chinese from Mr. Patrick Kilgo for promoting it (see INTRODUCTORY BIBLE LESSON AS RECEIVED).
In order to highlight the importance of the Pauline epistles for the Body of Christ. we decided to make a shorter version of the lessons in which in principle only these epistles are being used. We also included some images/photos which come from the internet and which are free to use. Other photos have been taken by ourselves or we received them. The result is here below.

The course work is divided into several sets of lessons on letter-size paper. Some of these correspond to a particular book of the Bible, others refer to a certain topic. Each set varies in the number of lessons. Each lesson has questions for you to answer.

A memory verse is given with each lesson. Memorize the most important words of these verses because you will find them a valuable aid in knowing the Word of God and presenting it to others.

Before starting each lesson, pray to God to enlighten your heart and mind that you may understand the truths to be studied.

Tell your family and friends about this Bible course in the Simplified Chinese language!

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