This is Class 1 for our Fall 2013 series, "Biblical Interpretation"

1. Class 1:
Why We’re Here
& Where We’re Going
1Tuesday, September 17, 2013

2. the Holy Kiss
•“Greet one another with a holy kiss.” -Rom. 16:16
•“Greet one another with a holy kiss.” -1 Cor. 16:20
•“Greet one another with a holy kiss.” -2 Cor. 13:12
•“Greet all the brothers with a holy kiss.” -1 Thess. 5:26
•“Greet one another with a kiss of love.” -1 Pet. 5:14
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3. "My feelings as a Christian point me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter.
It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded by a few
followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned
men to fight against them and who, God's truth, was greatest not as a
sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I
read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His
might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of
vipers and adders. How terrific was His fight for the world against the Jewish
poison. To-day, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I
recognize more profoundly than ever before the fact that it was for this
that He had to shed His blood upon the Cross. As a Christian I have no
duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter
for truth and justice... And if there is anything which could demonstrate
that we are acting rightly it is the distress that daily grows. For as a
Christian I have also a duty to my own people.”
-Adolf Hitler speech April 12, 1922 (italics mine)
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4. Acts 18:24-28
Meanwhile a Jew named Apollos, a native of
Alexandria, came to Ephesus. He was a learned
man, with a thorough knowledge of the Scriptures.
He had been instructed in the way of the Lord, and
he spoke with great fervor and taught about Jesus
accurately, though he know only the baptism of
John. He began to speak boldly in the synagogue.
When Priscilla and Aquilla heard him, they invited
him to their home and explained to him the way of
God more adequately.
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5. The more something
influences your lens, the
more difficult it is to see
it.
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6. Heart Issues
Broken Hearts
“When we heard this, we and the people there
pleaded with Paul not to go up to Jerusalem. Then
Paul answered, ‘Why are you weeping and breaking
my heart?” -Acts 21:12-13
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7. Heart Issues
Calloused Hearts
“Go to this people and say, ‘You will be ever hearing
but never understanding; you will be ever seeing
but never perceiving.‘ For this people’s heart has
become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears,
and they have closed their eyes.”
-Acts 28:26-27
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8. Heart Issues
Unrepentant Hearts
“But because of your stubbornness and your
unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against
yourself for the day of God’s wrath, when his
righteous judgment will be revealed.
-Romans 2:5
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9. Honor God
and his Word
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10. Keep Unity of
the local Church
10Tuesday, September 17, 2013

11. Provide an historical
context of the
Restoration Movement’s
interpretative method
11Tuesday, September 17, 2013

12. Identify the prevailing
method of interpretation
within most Churches of
Christ
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13. Provide tools for
interpretation of Scripture
moving forward
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