{"id":6300,"date":"2024-02-21T16:47:06","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T22:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=6300"},"modified":"2024-07-27T13:28:40","modified_gmt":"2024-07-27T18:28:40","slug":"first-the-verse-then-the-teaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=6300","title":{"rendered":"FIRST THE VERSE &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; THEN THE TEACHING"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What if . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What if a preacher\/teacher dropped the universal pattern of making a statement of doctrine\/belief\/teaching, followed by Bible verses to back it up ?<br>We&#8217;ve become so accustomed to this practice that we accept it and have come to expect it as the norm, the only way, because everybody does it that way.<br><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">This method, by it&#8217;s sequence, puts man&#8217;s word ahead of God&#8217;s Word ! ! !<\/span><br>Right ?<br>True ?<br>Good idea ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s not that hard to recognize.<br>It&#8217;s not that hard to change.<br>It&#8217;s not that hard to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">just switch the sequence<\/span>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With everything you want to teach, IF it&#8217;s based on the Word of God (hmmm, maybe reread and underline that), <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">IF it&#8217;s based on the Word of God<\/span>, declare the Bible FIRST, then say what you have to say that the Bible tells us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Try it.<br>Take the risk.<br>Test God.<br>Is there any way He could not honor that ?<br>Why not do it that way ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if . . . What if a preacher\/teacher dropped the universal pattern of making a statement of doctrine\/belief\/teaching, followed by Bible verses to back it up ?We&#8217;ve become so accustomed to this practice that we accept it and have come to expect it as the norm, the only way, because everybody does it that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-faith_based","category-inspire_lifter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6300"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6300"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6754,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6300\/revisions\/6754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}