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Instrumental music
“Modes” of baptism
Women leadership
Plan of salvation
Church organization
Church centralization
Praying to saints
Falling from grace
Etc., etc., etc.
Merriam Webster's…
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Hermeneutic: method or principle of bible
interpretation
Do you have one?
#1 The Pattern Principle
#2 The Command Principle
#3 The Example Principle
Principles for living to last a life time
#4 The “Necessary” Conclusion Principle
A common sense understanding of
what the text actually says.
For Example…
John 3:1-21- Why did Nicodemas
come to Jesus by night?
Genesis 6:14- Could different wood
be used on the Ark?
Exodus 20:8- Which Sabbath were
they to “remember”?
Matthew 22:31-33
31 And as for the resurrection of the dead,
have you not read what was said to you by
God: 32 ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the
God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is
not God of the dead, but of the living.”
The necessary conclusion was that there IS life after death
Matthew 22:41-45
41 Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus
asked them a question, 42 saying, “What do you think
about the Christ? Whose son is he?” They said to him, “The
son of David.” 43 He said to them, “How is it then that
David, in the Spirit, calls him Lord, saying,
44 “‘The Lord said to my Lord,
Sit at my right hand,
until I put your enemies under your feet’?
45 If then David calls him Lord, how is he his son?”
Necessary conclusion was that Christ is BOTH Lord and man
Acts 10:9-16
 Saw a vision of unclean animals, 3
times
 “What God has cleansed no longer
consider unholy.”
 Verse 28 - came to a necessary
conclusion
 Unclean animals are less important
than men
 Gentiles were now to be accepted
into the kingdom
Colossians 3:17
And whatever you do, in word or
deed, do everything in the name
of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks
to God the Father through Him.
Might be…
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Command authority
Example authority
Neccessary conclusion authority
But must have authority
When shall we eat the Lord’s Supper?
Acts 20:7
On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to
break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the
next day, and he prolonged his speech until midnight.
Only on the first day is easy, but WHICH first day?
Jews could understand which Sabbath.
Every one that came around!
We can understand which first day.
Every 1st day that comes around.
Why Use the Lord’s Money for a Meeting House?
Hebrews 10:25
…not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but
encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day
drawing near.
Hebrews 10:25 demands providing a place to meet
Rent, buy, build, borrow, or sneak
All are authorized, none are demanded
Why Use the Lord’s Money for a Paying Preachers?
1 Corinthians 9:4-11
Do we not have the right to eat and drink? 5 Do we not have the right to take
along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the brothers of the Lord
and Cephas? 6 Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to refrain from
working for a living? 7 Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants
a vineyard without eating any of its fruit? Or who tends a flock without getting
some of the milk?...9 For it is written in the Law of Moses, “You shall not
muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain.” …It was written for our sake,
because the plowman should plow in hope and the thresher thresh in hope of
sharing in the crop.11 If we have sown spiritual things among you, is it too
much if we reap material things from you?
Authority to support and only one means given of raising funds.
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Household baptism is not
necessarily infant baptism
In. music/dancing in O.T.
worship does not
necessarily bring it to N.T.
worship
A record of Jesus’ birth does
not necessarily mean
creating a holy day
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N.T. commands to train children, do good,
practice hospitality, visit widows & orphans &
the sick does necessarily mean the church is to
develop and support…
Mother’s day out, unwed mother’s homes, schools,
Colleges, orphan homes, retirement homes,
Medical clinics, teen trips to King’s Island,
Senior trips, Cows to Korea, concerts,
Exercise classes, ball teams, build gymnasiums,
etc., etc., etc.
Hebrews 5:9
And being made perfect, he became the source
of eternal salvation to all who obey him
Hebrews 5:9 IS a necessary conclusion
that Jesus is NOT a savior of the
disobedient
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#1 Pattern Principle - The Bible, specifically
the New Test. is a pattern, to be followed for life
 #2 Command Principle – N.T. commands by
Jesus and His apostles are authoritative
 #3 Example Principle – Examples taught or
modeled by the apostles are authoritative
 #4 Necessary Conclusion – common sense
understanding of what the text actually says
Where Do You Stand?