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Remember those TV commercials of a few years back? A picture of an egg in the shell would appear on the screen, and the voice-over would announce: “This is your brain.” Then a picture of a furiously frying egg would be shown: “This is your brain on drugs. Any questions?”

Well, to borrow that pattern: “This is you doing an inductive Bible Study - GOD → You.” In an inductive Bible study, you study the Bible FIRST before turning to commentaries or other study helps: “God → OTHERS → You.” While there are many excellent study methods and programs available, how many of us actually take time to study God’s Word? How many of us actually know HOW to hear from God Himself - unfiltered through a book or another person? How many of us assume that we can’t understand what God WANTS us to know, and so either we don’t bother, or we trust someone else to tell us what God says. Do we really believe that “We does not live by bread alone, but . . . by every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD” (Deut. 8:3)? Many of us are like those noble Bereans who “received the Word with all eagerness”; but how many of us, like them, don’t just take the Apostle Paul’s word for it, but instead, “examine the Scriptures daily to see if these things are so” (Acts 17:11)?

Starting in September I’ll be leading a Bible study on Thursdays appropriate for teens and adults, and designed not only to study the Bible itself, but to help you learn the skills that will enable you to study the Bible for yourself.

Using materials developed by Precept Ministries International (www.precept.org), the current leader in promoting inductive Bible studies around the world, we’ll be “jumping into the deep end” and study prophetic themes found in that fascinating last book of the Bible: REVELATION. Our goal will be what God’s goal is: to encourage one another to live godly lives while we “wait for His Son from heaven . . . who rescues us from the wrath to come” (1 Thess 1:10). In our journey through God’s Word, and REVELATION in particular, we’ll hear what God says about that time we call the Tribulation (and whether or not Believers will be raptured before, during, or after it); whether “Mystery Babylon” is a real city (in modern Iraq?), or a symbol of a false religious system; if “the 144,000" refers to a special class of Christians. We’ll learn how to keep all those seven seals, and seven trumpets, and seven bowls separate; we’ll learn the difference between the Judgment Seat of Christ and The Great White Throne judgment and at which one our presence will be required; and about the rewards or punishments that await every single person.

Any questions? Information brochures are available at church, or you can call me at the phone number listed on page one. Are you ready for The Adventure??

Jim

 

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