Into His Marvellous Light

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Originally Posted by Praxeas

My point being that dividing it up over two days is less effective. People tend to forget what they learned the previous day

That is not how it went with the study, though. There is a hurdle of sorts since RDTW does spend MUCH time establishing how important the Word is and how we must adapt to it, and not vice versa. But, as I said, the study had phenomenal success.

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Originally Posted by mfblume

That is not how it went with the study, though. There is a hurdle of sorts since RDTW does spend MUCH time establishing how important the Word is and how we must adapt to it, and not vice versa. But, as I said, the study had phenomenal success.

Can you describe the material covered and basically how it is presented?

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Originally Posted by Esaias

Can you describe the material covered and basically how it is presented?

Generally speaking, it begins with AUTHORITY OF THE WORD. It shows the student how God's word is truth and then how Christ was the Word incarnate. It shows where Jesus said His words will judge us in the last day. And then it shifts into high gear when it reads John 17:20 where Jesus said He prayed for the people who believe on Him through the words of the Apostles. He sent them as much as the Father Sent Him.

That prepares the student to realize there is no such thing as preferring Jesus' words over the Apostles' later in the book of Acts.

Then it goes to show the surprisingly many passages where John and Paul and Peter wrote in their epistles how people must cling to the traditions and teachings and doctrines that THEY preached. Reference to the terms "US" and "OUR" emphasize doctrines the apostles taught, while recalling Christ's words about how we would believe on Him through their words.

One powerful point of emphasis is this:

1Jn 4:6 KJV We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

So, it establishes that whatever they preached as doctrine and gospel and salvation must be preferred regardless of church tradition and so on.

It goes from there to Christ's great commission in all three synoptic gospels, showing the little known passages of Luke 24:47-49.

Then finally it wades into the book of Acts, show what the apostles actually did preach for salvation.

It touches on John 3:16 explaining belief on Jesus must correspond to Jon 17:20, indicating John 3:16 is vague to say the least, and cannot be understood without John 17:20 in mind.

It deals with Romans 10 and the references to confessing with the mouth and believing in the heart, which is what many evangelicals leave people with. And tells folks to KEEP READING, where they read it again always goes back to finding out what the apostles preached in Acts, because Romans 10 says a preacher must be SENT before one can properly hear from a preacher. And the Apostles were the SENT ones.