Do you care about what truth really is….or are you happy to accept ‘status quo’ ?  (ie that which has always been or what other people tell you is right)

What basis do you use to assess truth? Is it what feels good and seems right to you? What then makes your truth more true than anyone else’s contradictory feelings and opinions?

For Christians there is only one basis of truth. It is NOT what your pastor has taught….nor what you have read in a book… nor what you ‘think’.

It is what the scriptures, in context and rightly divided, say. Jesus says… ‘and the scriptures cannot be broken’. The scriptures say… ‘Forever Oh Lord thy word is settled in the heavens’.

“Sanctify them in thy truth…thy WORD is truth”

“I am the Way, the Truth and the Life”….We can see the truth by looking at Jesus in the scriptures.

What foundation are you building your life on?

In the search for truth, let us examine what the scriptures say about the following topics:-

(Please put your steel capped boots on….these articles may ‘tread on your corns’)

1) Who is this Jesus …and The Father….and the Holy Spirit….ie our Triune God?

2) What is the church that HE is building? 

3) What is the gospel?

4) What church leadership is supposed to be? 

5) What about the anointed ministry?

6) Should ministers be paid a salary?

7) What is ‘salvation’, ‘being born again’, having ‘eternal life’, redeemed, justified, made righteous, etc ? 

8) Are Christians required to give tithes, ‘first-fruits’ or ‘offerings’...or to sow money ?

9) How we fulfill our role as ‘sons and daughters’ of God?

10) Living under the covenant of ‘grace’ rather than 'under the Law'…learning to trust God’s love for us rather than our own ‘works of righteousness’…while letting the Spirit of God transform our lives.

11) Being ‘led by the Spirit’, hearing the voice of God, having dreams and visions, and prophesying

12) Manifestations of the Holy Spirit

13) Reading the ‘Spirit’ and NOT the letter of the word

14) What the 'local church' is

15) Hermeneutics simplified…reading what the scriptures are really teaching, in context and in the correct covenant. Who is being addressed….what is God communicating to them….and how would the hearers have understood it and how it applies to us today.

16) How to avoid ‘proof-texting’….ie being in context and weighting the detailed specific teachings more heavily than incidental comments in other contexts or in parables.....and  “In the mouth of two witnesses on three let EVERY word be confirmed”

17) Letting the Spirit reveal truths which are hidden for us….interacting with the Holy Spirit ...your teacher. (listen for questions…answering what comes from within…asking if you are right…listen for follow-up questions….keep going until the ‘light goes on’) The Spirit frequently uses other scriptures which will bring clarity and context. 

18) What is the Glory of God?

19) Can ALL be healed?

20) Hearing the voice of God

21) Now faith is....

22) What is truth?

30) Church Problems addressed.......Should we accept the status quo.....or do we have the right to say "THIS IS WRONG!"