9-15-13 Class 1

Class 1:Why We’re Here

& Where We’re Going

1Tuesday, September 17, 2013

the Holy Kiss

•“Greet one another with a holy kiss.” -Rom. 16:16

•“Greet one another with a holy kiss.” -1 Cor. 16:20

•“Greet one another with a holy kiss.” -2 Cor. 13:12

•“Greet all the brothers with a holy kiss.” -1 Thess. 5:26

•“Greet one another with a kiss of love.” -1 Pet. 5:14


"My feelings as a Christian point me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God's truth, was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was His fight for the world against the Jewish poison. To-day, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before the fact that it was for this that He had to shed His blood upon the Cross. As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice... And if there is anything which could demonstrate that we are acting rightly it is the distress that daily grows. For as a Christian I have also a duty to my own people.”

-Adolf Hitler speech April 12, 1922 (italics mine)


Acts 18:24-28

Meanwhile a Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, came to Ephesus. He was a learned

man, with a thorough knowledge of the Scriptures. He had been instructed in the way of the Lord, and he spoke with great fervor and taught about Jesus

accurately, though he know only the baptism of John. He began to speak boldly in the synagogue.

When Priscilla and Aquilla heard him, they invited him to their home and explained to him the way of

God more adequately.4Tuesday, September 17, 2013

The more something influences your lens, the more difficult it is to see

it.


Heart Issues

Broken Hearts“When we heard this, we and the people there pleaded with Paul not to go up to Jerusalem. Then Paul answered, ‘Why are you weeping and breaking my heart?” -Acts 21:12-13


Heart Issues

Calloused Hearts“Go to this people and say, ‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.‘ For this people’s heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes.” -Acts 28:26-27


Heart Issues

Unrepentant Hearts“But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God’s wrath, when his righteous judgment will be revealed. -Romans 2:5


Honor God and his Word


Keep Unity of the local Church


Provide an historical context of the

Restoration Movement’s interpretative method


Identify the prevailing method of interpretation within most Churches of

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Provide tools for interpretation of Scripture

moving forward


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9-15-13 Class 1

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