The Discipleship Explored DVD

Discipleship Explored is supported by a DVD written and presented by Barry Cooper. Each episode is beautifully shot on location around the UK, with settings as diverse as Highgate’s gothic cemetery, an East End boxing ring, a huge athletics stadium, a decommissioned observatory, an eerily empty underground station, and a scrapyard, filled with towering stacks of long abandoned cars.

It’s a visual treat, with a gorgeous soundtrack and a rumbling voiceover from James Cosmo, the Scottish actor perhaps best known for his work on Braveheart. The director is Steve Hughes, Cooper’s long-time friend and collaborator, who has just recently finished work on the BBC’s Dr Who. But the star of the series is the script, based firmly in God’s Word.

Barry explains his thinking behind the scripts: “I think one biblical idea clearly understood is better than three dimly grasped. With something as theologically rich as Philippians, it’s tempting to try and say everything—and end up saying nothing. So I wanted to make each episode as lean as possible, to hit one point and keep hitting that point as clearly as I could. Each episode has a single pulse that runs all the way through it, and hopefully there’s real power and clarity that comes from that.”

See the Discipleship Explored trailer here to get a feel for this DVD.

And please note: The DVD has been redesigned as part of developing the 2nd Edition of Discipleship Explored. However, the contents are unchanged from the previous version of the DVD, so you do not need to buy a new DVD if you already have an existing one.