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Walk Thru the Bible Ministries (WTB) is a non-denominational
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educational organization headquartered in
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Overview

Walk Thru the Bible was founded in the
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in 1976 by
Bruce Wilkinson Bruce Wilkinson is the founder and chairman of Teach Every Nation (TEN), an Evangelical parachurch organization. He is best known for founding Walk Thru the Bible, an evangelical Christian educational organization, with Howard Hendricks, and for ...
and
Howard Hendricks Howard George Hendricks (April 5, 1924 – February 20, 2013) was a longtime professor at Dallas Theological Seminary and speaker for Promise Keepers. Upon his graduation from Dallas, Hendricks accepted the pastorate at Calvary Independent Pre ...
. Its main purpose is to teach evangelical Christian biblical doctrines, primarily through an innovative
seminar A seminar is a form of academic instruction, either at an academic institution or offered by a commercial or professional organization. It has the function of bringing together small groups for recurring meetings, focusing each time on some parti ...
format, while providing additional resources through print, audio and video media productions. As a
parachurch organization Parachurch organizations are Christian faith-based organizations that work outside and across denominations to engage in social welfare and evangelism. Parachurch organizations seek to come alongside the church and specialize in things that indivi ...
, Walk Thru the Bible works in cooperation with local churches who host and publicize the seminars to their congregations and surrounding communities. The organization's non-traditional audience-participatory
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have resulted in rapid worldwide growth, with a WTB presence, by means of trained WTB seminar instructors, in over 90 countries. Borrowing from the business-world concept of the
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or
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, WTB trains "Associate Instructors" who then "manage their own local ministry" and interface with churches and private schools in their region to present the various WTB
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seminars. WTB's original goal was to train and equip one instructor for every 50,000 people, in every country of the world. More recently, this goal has been augmented with an effort to establish instructors connected to local churches in 1,000 high-density cities in various countries. WTB is reported to have trained over 100,000 instructors. After becoming a best-selling author, Wilkinson stepped down from leadership of WTB, and was succeeded as president by Chip Ingram in 2003. Ingram was later succeeded by Phil Tuttle, the current president.


Awards

At the
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' 2007 Annual Media Awards, WTB won an award for "Best Ministry Website".


See also

* The Prayer of Jabez


References


External links


Official site

Ministry Watch's financial report on WTB
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