A Unique Believers Manual. For those who want to learn the TRUTH of God's Word

I depend on the Holy Spirit to fully understand and faithfully teach God's Word, while continually testing my understanding against God's Word. There is a very serious responsibility that comes with teaching God's Word. It is not enough to love God, love the Bible, and have something we want to say about a particular Scripture. When we teach, we are handling something precious that did not originate with us. God's Word belongs to God. Therefore, our responsibility is not to tell people what we think God meant. Our responsibility is to learn what He has said, understand it as carefully as we can, and then faithfully teach it. This may sound like a small distinction, but it is not. There is a great difference between explaining God's Word and changing God's Word into our own message. A teacher may explain a passage in simple language. A teacher may compare Scripture with Scripture. A teacher may show how one passage connects with another. A teacher may...

  There is something almost ironic about that old song, “Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In,” from the musical Hair . The music was written by Galt MacDermot, with lyrics by James Rado and Gerome Ragni, and the famous recording by The 5th Dimension was released in 1969 . The song looked toward an imagined coming age of harmony and understanding, as though Mankind were moving into a brighter and more enlightened future. But if that song were rewritten for the world in which we are living today, I think its opening would have to say something very different: “Harmony and understanding have been thrown under the bus for ignorance and hatred.” That may sound humorous, but there is something very serious underneath it. The peaceful age that Mankind imagined it could create for itself has not arrived. Instead, we are watching a world that is increasingly divided, anxious, angry, uncertain, and perplexed about where everything is going. The strange thing is that this is happening at a tim...