This course is divided into twenty-five (25) lessons. After each lesson you are asked to answer several interactive multiple choice and true-false questions concerning what you have just studied. The correct answer is found in the scripture reference that is listed with the questions. Click on the answer of your choice and a dialog box will appear telling you if your answer is correct or wrong and why. It is my hope and prayer that this course will help you in some way.
Let us go back to the Bible. As God tells us in I Peter 4:11, "If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God." In other words, we are to speak where the Bible speaks and be silent where the Bible is silent. We must call Bible things by Bible names and do Bible things in Bible ways. We will not be wrong in doing this. To do this we must get rid of all the manuals, creeds, disciplines, and confessions that men have written and follow only what we can read in the Bible, because the Bible is our only guidebook to heaven. You can also visit our Study Topics area for more specific Bible study issues as well as our Bible Questions section. Both of these areas can provide you with more information about God's word. |
Each congregation of the Lord's church is to be overseen by a group of elders. In Acts 14:23 we read, "So when they had appointed elders in every church." Notice there is to be a plurality of elders in every church or congregation. This is the way the Lord set up His church. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1) (Acts 14:23 & Acts 20:28) Each congregation of the Lord's church is overseen by
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There is one other thing that concerns our salvation that I would like for us to look at in the Bible. In response to Peterís confession to Jesus in Matthew 16:16 that, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God". Jesus then says in Matthew 16:18, "On this rock I will build My church." To whom was this church to belong? "My" is possessive, which shows the church belongs to Jesus. How many churches did Jesus say He was going to build? He said He was going to build "My church", which is singular not plural. The Lord only promised to build His one church.
1) (Matthew 16:18) How many different churches did the Lord say he was going to build?
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The one church that Christ purchased with His own blood belongs to Him and the name it wears must honor Him. We read in Romans 16:16, "The churches of Christ greet you." This name glorifies and honors Christ, the one who built it. Other names honor and glorify John the Baptist, Martin Luther, the day of Penticost, the apostles, Rome, Antioch, Nazareth, the Greeks, the Russians, the methodical way of doing things, Christians, the free will, being primitive, southern, missionary, general, the seventh day, science, catholic, the advent, and the list goes on and on. Even by their names they do not claim to be Christ's one church. Why canít we give the glory and honor to God and Christ where the honor belongs?
1) (Romans 16:16) Which church do you read about in the Bible?
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Man does not have the authority to change the will of God on any subject. We have been given severe warnings in several places in the Bible concerning any changes that we try to make to Godís word. As we have already seen in Galatians 1:6-9, if we pervert the gospel by changing it, we will be accursed.
Questions Lesson 21 1) (Revelation 22:18-19) If we add to God's word
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