We exist because most believers were never taught how to read the Bible

Where this started

T. A. Linton

Founder, 3710 Collective

"My heart is for believers to know what they believe, and why they believe it. Not just to feel it, but to understand it."

In 2015, I started seriously reading the Bible. Not as a new Christian, but for the first time I was sitting with Scripture alone, trying to understand it for myself. And I quickly realised something uncomfortable: I had no idea how to read it.

I knew what to believe, I knew the stories, I could follow along in church, but left alone with the text, I had no framework. I was applying verses before I had interpreted them. I was reading in isolation, ignoring context, and wondering why it wasn't clicking.

In 2019, I was given the opportunity to teach the Bible to young children and something shifted. The moment I gave a structured method for approaching a passage, the text opened up for them and for me. Confusion dissolved. Clarity grew. That wasn't a spiritual miracle, it was a training outcome.

Since then I have created resources and taught Scripture to believers of all ages. The pattern has been consistent: confusion isn't a sign of weak faith, It's the absence of structure and when structure arrives, confidence follows.

3710 Collective is the result of a decade of teaching, building, and refining a methodology that works.

That wasn't a faith problem. It was a training gap. And I had never been given the training.

How 3710 Collective came to be

3710 Collective was built from a decade of personal study, teaching, and a growing conviction that biblical literacy is a training outcome, not a gift given to some and withheld from others.

2015

Started reading the Bible with intention for the first time and discovered the gap between knowing what to believe and knowing how to read. That gap became the driving question behind everything that followed.

The beginning of serious study

First opportunity to teach

Began teaching Scripture to young children. Quickly discovered that structured methods, not just content, were the key to understanding. Started developing frameworks, materials, and approaches that worked across all ages and levels.

Teaching across all ages

Created a range of resources and taught believers of all ages — children, young people, adults. The methodology refined over time into what is now the S3 Framework and the Contextual Method: the intellectual backbone of everything 3710 Collective teaches.

2019

Since then

Now

3710 Collective brings that same structured approach to a wider audience — through the Bible Literacy Starter Kit, the Weekly Word, and the 12-week Biblical Literacy Programme.

3710 Collective

Why the name 3710?

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth."

Genesis 1:1

The name 3710 is rooted in Genesis 1, where everything begins with God, with order, and with divine intention.

In Hebrew, this opening sentence is seven words. The word for God is Elohim, a plural noun. The word for created is bara, a singular verb. From the very first sentence, Scripture introduces the unity and diversity of the Triune God at work in creation.

God as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. From the very first verse, Genesis subtly reveals this mystery.

3 represents the Trinity

7 represents perfection and completion

The first verse of Genesis contains exactly seven words in Hebrew, symbolising the wholeness of God’s Word and His creative design.

10 represents fullness, authority, and divine order

God speaks ten times in Genesis 1, establishing the “first commandments” that ordered creation — “Let there be…” These creative decrees echo forward to the Ten Commandments.

Each number in 3710 carries deep biblical significance:

So when we say 3710, we’re speaking of God as He is, His perfect Word, and His complete authority over all things

3710 shows that deep reading of Scripture reveals God's character, structure, and intention from the very first line. That's what we train believers to find.

What 3710 Collective is - and isn't

✓ A biblical literacy training company

✓ A structured learning environment

✓ A methodology-led approach to Scripture

✓ Accessible without being shallow

✓ Intellectually serious without being academic

✓ Built for the believer who wants to understand, not just feel

3710 Collective is

Clarity about what we are matters as much as clarity about what we're not. 3710 exists in a specific space — between the devotional and the academic, and it's important that anyone who comes to us understands what they're entering.

3710 Collective is not

—A devotional brand

—A church or church replacement

—A theology debate platform

—An inspiration or motivation resource

—A passive content consumption feed

—A quick-fix Bible tool

What we believe about biblical literacy

Most believers who struggle with Scripture are not spiritually weak. They were simply never given a structured method for reading it. That gap has a solution.

Confusion is a training gap, not a faith problem

Clarity builds confidence

When a believer understands what they are reading — its context, its genre, its place in the story — confidence follows naturally. Confidence is a training outcome.

Structure protects meaning

Reading Scripture without structure doesn't just produce confusion — it produces misinterpretation. Structure doesn't restrict the text. It protects what the text actually says.

Practice builds competence

Biblical literacy is a skill. Skills are not built by consuming information — they are built through practice, feedback, and repetition. That is why 3710 trains, not just teaches.

Independence is the goal

The measure of success is not how much a student relies on 3710. It is how confidently they can open their Bible alone and understand what they are reading — without us.

Ready to begin?

Start with the free Bible Literacy Starter Kit. It introduces the S3 Framework, the foundation of everything 3710 Collective teaches, and takes 20 minutes to work through.

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