For some months I have been doing Zoom Bible studies with colleagues, and in that course, I have been highlighting:
This framework leads to unifying the six principles, the NT gospel preachings, the reason for a scripture-based focus, and extension to reformation-minded discipleship. For example:
Here, we see that humanity has now moved beyond the age of ignorance, and how four of the six foundation of discipleship principles are embedded in NT gospel preaching: repentance [so, faith], resurrection and judgement, with of course the other two being part and parcel of church life.
(For American atheistical critics, I am speaking in a Caribbean context, one in which I first learned the Ten Commandments, The Lord's Prayer and the like in school, along with national symbols and songs that are plain. But in fact my context is, given what we see elsewhere and creeping in, it is time for an independent education system resting on the legitimate authority of knowledge resting on sound warrant rather than the decrees of out of control states, media manipulators, lawyers and advocates in academic robes who have blundered by making hyperskepticism take priority over knowledge. Details, later.)
Lay and build on the foundation.
