Read the following passages. What do they say about the Bible that could help us to understand today what its role should be in our lives and faith? 1 Pet.
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God’s Word is our Authority
Occasionally, at church or the Adventist school where I teach Bible and evangelism, someone will ask me, “What do we believe about such and such?” My response has always been, “I don’t know what you believe, but here is what I, and many Seventh-day Adventists believe,” and I show them in the Bible what I believe and why. I am not going to tell someone what they believe. That is not teaching. It is brainwashing. During the Dark Ages, when people did not have access to the Bible, people trusted their priests to tell them what they believed, and because of that there was a lot of brainwashing going on. Even before the Dark Ages, priests abused their authority, and tried to brainwash people into believing whatever they believed
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13 Major Themes in 1 and 2 Peter – Discussion starters
The end of this study. What are two or three blessings that you have experienced in our twelve weeks of study of the two epistles of Peter? Besides studying these two messages, have you also considered aspects of the life of Peter as he mentored his fellow disciples and the early church? Although as Protestants we do not accept that Peter was the first pope, do we look to Peter as a stalwart and effective leader of the early Christian church? How so?
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Singing with Inspiration – Lesson 13
The first Bible text in this weeks lesson, Isaiah 53:5, 6, reminded me of two songs from Handel’s “Messiah” ; Chorus 24 “Surely He Hath Borne Our Griefs” and “No 26 Chorus “ All We Like Sheep Have Gone Astray”. The Memory Text then follows the story very closely with many beautiful hymns of the story of the cross: Hymn 237, “In The Cross of Christ I Glory”, Hymn 303 “Beneath The Cross Of Jesus, Hymn 154 “When I Survey The Wondrous Cross”, Hymn 328 “Must Jesus Bear The Cross Alone”, just to name a few. The themes from these hymns carry successfully through the Lesson study on Sunday also, with the culmination of our faith in Romans 3: 21 , 22 Hymn 517 “My Faith Looks Up to Thee”, or Hymn 523 “My Faith Has Found A Resting Place” and our salvation: Hymn 339, “God Is My Strong Salvation” .
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Monday: How Should We Live?
A theme that Peter returns to more often than any other is posed by the question he asked in 2 Peter 3:11 : “Since all these things are to be dissolved in this way, what sort of persons ought you to be in leading lives of holiness and godliness?” (NRSV). Image © Bill Osborne from GoodSalt.com Read the following texts. What does Peter say about Christian behavior? 1 Pet. 1:15-17 , 1 Pet.
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