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What We Believe
1. God is--there is one and only one true and living God. He is an infinite, all knowing Spirit, perfect in all His attributes, one in essence, eternally existing in three persons--the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. God is love. He loves you and He is passionate in His pursuit of a real relationship with you.
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What is Inductive Bible Study?
Inductive Bible Study is a basic way to take a passage of scripture and break it down through a three step process in order to better understand what it means so that we can apply it to our life.
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What does it mean to be filled with the Holy Spirit?
This is a phrase taken right out of the New Testament. Different people were described as being "filled with the Spirit: (Luke 1:15, 1:41, Acts 4:31, 6:3, 13:9) and the Apostle Paul directs his readers in Ephesians 5:18 to "be filled with the Spirit."
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Observation
Focus: What Does It Say
1. Looking for the Obvious - Mark key people, places and events in some distinct way. Make a list on what you observe and learn.
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Why are parts of the Bible so confusing?
If God gave us the Bible so that we could understand him better, then why are some parts of it VERY, VERY confusing? Why didn't he just make everything clear?
There are parts of the Bible that are confusing. To say this isn't true is foolish and prideful.
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Interpretation
Focus: What Does it Mean?
I. Ask Questions
When you are studying a passage of the Bible, and come across an issue, phrase, topic, idea, or word that you do not understand, ask the question, "What does it mean?"
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Why should a person be baptized?
From the beginning, baptism represented the ideas of identification and allegiance. Remember how the Gentiles were changing their identity? Once they baptized themselves, they were no longer Gentiles; they were Jews. People who were baptized by John were identifying with John's teaching for repentance. That is why Jesus allowed Himself to be baptized by John. The identity factor is underscored in Acts where we find that those who were baptized to identify with John were rebaptized in the name of Jesus in order to identify with Him. Therefore, one reason for baptism is that we publicly identify with Jesus' teachings.
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Application
Focus: How Can I Apply it to My Life?
Three Steps for Application
1. Understand - The first step of applcation is to understand what the WORD of God says on a particular subject through accurate observation and correct interpretation of the passage.