Author: Stephen Amato
Located in: Woburn, MA
Submitted: May 08, 2003
Tell us a little about yourself. After becoming a Christian in college through
the ministry of the Navigators in the late
1970's, I went on to minister among the Chinese
community in the Boston area while working as an
engineer. In 1996 I developed The Boston Chinese
Bible Study Resources web site as a service to
the Boston Chinese Bible Study Group. In 1999
this developed into the Boston Christian Bible
Study Resources (www.bcbsr.com), which
along with the translation help from my friend
Lin San, has become a worldwide ministry visited
by hundreds of thousands. I presently work as an
engineer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for
Astrophysics in Cambridge Massachusetts.
What was your motivation behind this project? In my opinion the vast majority of teaching
materials available and techniques utilized in
the Evangelical community today speak mostly to
those of a left-brain analytic mindset, of which
I myself am no doubt a member. But all kinds of
people are to be invited to the feast. How to
invite someone of an artistic intuitive nature
to feast on the Word? This book is an attempt to
minister to one's artistic and intuitive nature
while attempting to keep to the accuracy and
depth of the Word of God and the meaning of the
Christian experience.
What do you hope folks will gain from this project? I hope they find "Bible Rap" to be a useful
resource for their own Bible study or for youth
ministry or as a gift to get friends and family
into the Bible
Who are your influences, sources of inspiration or favorite authors / artists? Those who've had the greatest influence on me
are not authors or public figures, but ordinary
Christian men who have taken time to disciple
me. Bradlee Sargent, who is involved in ministry
to Muslims; Mike Coates who gave me a vision for
the Chinese; Mike Fair who trained me in
personal discipleship; Tom Eynon, a gifted
teacher; and a few others. I guess my favorite
author would be Francis Schaeffer.
Anything else you'd like readers / listeners to know: The Bible rap contained in "Bible Rap" is
supplemental to the Bible study guides I've
written for The Boston Christian Bible Study
Resources site (www.bcbsr.com)
