What I Teach In Home Bible Classes

Class 1 – The difference between the Old Testament and New Testament.  As a whole, those in the denominational world do NOT know the difference.  Many had just as soon go to the OT to prove a point for today as to the NT.  The New Testament went into effect in Acts 2.
Class 2 – Records of conversions.  There are about ten examples of conversion in the New Testament.  When all are studied it is plain that Faith, Repentance, Confession of Christ, and Baptism for the remission of sins is into the body of Christ and for salvation.  Acts 2:38; 22:16; Mk. 16:16.
Class 3 – Church history.  We study the establishment of the church and its spread all over the world, how denominations go started, and the basis upon which we claim to be the church of the New Testament. (The identity of the church).
Class 4 – The worship of the church.  The Lord’s Supper – Mt. 26:26-29; Acts 20:7; Giving– I Cor. 16:2; prayer-in the Lord’s supper – Mt. 26:26-29; prayer at other times also Eph. 6:18; I Th 5:17; singing Eph 5:19; Col 3:16; preaching.  In Acts 20:7, Paul preached until midnight.  We don’t when he started, but apparently it was a long sermon.  The context might indicate why.
Class 5 – The Nature of the church.  Jesus is Head of the body, the church Col. 1:18: and gave Himself up for it – Eph 5:25.  Jesus purchased the church with His blood – Acts 20:28.  And yet, some think the church is NOT essential?  If not, then the blood of Christ purchased the churs is not essential either??  How can any Bible student believe such?
Class 6 – The Organization of the church.  The Bible teaches there is ONE body – Eph 4:4.  And, Jesus is the Head of the body, the church – Col 1:18.  So, Jesus has the “preeminence” in all things --
Class 7 – The WORK of the church.  The basic work of the church is to reach the lost, and edify the saved.  In Mk 16:16, Jesus said, “Go ye into all the woorld, and preach the gospel to every creature.” V.16, “He that believeth and is baptized shall be save; but he that believeth not shall be condemned.”  Mk. 16:16.  Please note that in v. 15, God wants all in the world to hear the gospel.  We as Christians have a great obligation to carry out God’s will today as it was carried out in the first century.  In Col 1:23, “If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope off the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister.”
Class 8 – A LESSON ON MORALITY, how to tell what is right and wrong.  There are two parts to Christianity.  One part is DOCTRINAL, which includes how to become a Christian, the work of the church, worship in spirit and truth, and the organization of lthe church, et.  The other part is MORAL.  What is right and what is wrong in the moral realm?  God’s people are to be the best moral people in the world, and certainly faithful in worship, attendance, and spiritual growth.

• In studying morality, there are many things condemned.  For example: Gal. 5:19-21, lists quite a few.  “Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these, adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envying, murders, drunkenness, revelings, and such like:  of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the Kingdom of God.” (KJV)
• I Tim 4:16, teaches of two parts of Christianity.  “Take heed to thyself, and to thy teaching.  Continue in these things; for in doing this thou shalt save both thyself and them that hear thee.”  The two parts of Christianity are, (1) Take heed to self, your moral living, and (2) to thy teaching or doctrine.  Make sure you teach the truth.  Make sure you live a clean, moral life.  There are people who live a clean moral life yet know littlel about following the Bible in religion.  How sad!  There are also some who know religion and follow the Bible on it, yet know little about moral lives and are not following the Bible on such.
• Prov. 22:6 – “Train up a child in the way he whould go, and even when he is old, he will not depart from it.” Prov. 22:15 – “Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.” Prov. 13:24.  He hat swarth his rod hateth his son…”

Truth In Love Vol 7, No. 1, January, 2014, David Bonner

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