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Aug 27 •
Welcome! Introduce yourself + share your favorite book of the Bible
Let's get to know each other! You can use this simple format: Hey, I'm from _______________________. For fun I like to ___________________________________. My favorite book of the Bible is: _________________________________________. (If you don't have a favorite book of the Bible yet, change it to "My favorite holiday is: ______________________.")
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Drop your favorite bible study tools/commentaries. 👇 Here are 2 of mine 👇
-Logos. Bible study software. They have a free version. Great place to get started and start building resources for study. You can purchase different upgrade packages and/or one time books, commentaries, etc. I use it weekly. -New Bible Commentary edited by Gordon J. Wenham, J Alec Moyer, D.A. Carson and R.T. France and their credentials (this is available in Logos). It's a solid overall commentary (in my opinion). I go to commentaries when I need to get someone way smarter than me's take on a passage.
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Group rules
If you're like me, you're passionate about your views on Theology. It's also easy for me to get defensive or argumentative, especially online, about said theological beliefs. In this group, we want to try our best not to let that happen! We will be guided by 3 passages: #1- 1 Corinthians 8:1 "We know that “We all possess knowledge.” But knowledge puffs up while love builds up." The purpose of this group is to discuss, learn and grow in sound theology, not to argue. Its purpose is to build up, not puff up or put others down. #2- Titus 3:9 "But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and arguments and quarrels about the law, because these are unprofitable and useless. Warn a divisive person once, and then warn them a second time. After that, have nothing to do with them." Divisive posts or people will not be tolerated after a warning. #3- 2 Timothy 2:23 "Don’t have anything to do with foolish and stupid arguments, because you know they produce quarrels. And the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but must be kind to everyone, able to teach, not resentful. Opponents must be gently instructed, in the hope that God will grant them repentance leading them to a knowledge of the truth". There WILL be disagreement in this group at times. The mark of a Christian is to be able to disagree while remaining kind. Those rules apply to HOW we will engage. Rule #4 is about WHAT we engage about. The purpose of this group is to grow deeper in sound theology. People will have different ideas about what sound theology is. As a general rule, this group will be guided traditional orthodox Christian teaching and interpretation. That's a fancy way of saying that we will be guided by what the Protestant, Evangelical traditions have taught for thousands of years and traditional methods of interpreting Scripture. We believe the saying "If it's new, it's probably not right" from a doctrinal standpoint. We believe God does new things but He does not do new doctrines. "Doctrine" just means what the Bible collectively says about something that guides are beliefs and practices.
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Something God Taught Me About Learning Theology
A little while back I had a desire to go deeper in my understanding of Scripture. With the constantly shifting sands of culture, I felt a strong pull to gain greater clarity and perspective on many of the issues we’re facing today from a truly biblical perspective. I’ve always had that desire to varying degrees, but God was doing something new. At some point as I was thinking and praying about what to do about this pull, I felt the Holy Spirit prod me with the idea- “obey what I’ve already shown you”. Even though overall I felt like I was living aligned with Scripture, there was one nagging area of my life I was struggling with that I essentially did not want to surrender to Lord. It was not an area that I wanted to willfully disobey, but it was something I was struggling to figure out how to obey. So I began praying that God would help me. In this case, I had to realize I could not obey this particular truth from Scripture in my own strength. I needed His help. And He worked on me. He always seems to give me the grace to obey His Word when I am truly willing. It brought me great peace and joy when I began to obey even though it was counter to how I felt in my flesh. Fast forward to last week I was watching something where professing Christians were debating ethical topics. I was sitting there thinking, “How do these so called Christians have such confusion over what Scripture teaches even though they seem to have a reasonable knowledge of it?” I was reminded about what the Holy Spirit had prodded me on months earlier and something I’ve been reading in a Christian Ethics book lately: Our own disobedience can deceive us and limit our ability to understand Scripture properly. James 1:22 says “Be doers of the Word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves”. The implication here is that we can know a lot about the Bible and still not truly understand it, not because it's unclear, but because of our own disobedience to it. That was a revelation to me. That truth has helped me develop a healthier fear of the Lord in the sense that I always need to be striving to obey Scripture in my quest to learn more of it and to avoid heeding voices who claim to know a lot about Scripture but who’s lives aren’t a reflection of it.
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God wants us to pray because ___________________.
Let us know how you would finish the sentence. I'll go first. God wants us to pray because it expresses our faith and trust in Him.
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