Friday, October 22, 2010

Grounded in the Gospel: Building Believers the Old-Fashioned Way This instant


I just finished reading the book and bought 40 copies for the teachers in our church. Packer and Parrett have provided a great case for the need to return to catechesis today, asking a fundamental question, "What must we teach?" My only suggestion would be further biblical support with other key terms (i.e. sterizo - Acts 14:22; 15:41; 16:5; 18:23; Rom 1:11; 16:25; 1 Thes 3:2) and key passages (i.e. Acts 11:26 - What did Barnabas and Saul teach that enabled the Antioch church to grow "strong" such that the Holy Spirit saw fit to send them both out (vs. Simeon, Lucius and/or Manaen)?) and ask "what did the apostles teach?" to guard against reading church history back into the first century (NT). For an excellent present day catechical tool I am using, see "The First Principles Series" by BILD Int'l ([...]).Get more detail about Grounded in the Gospel: Building Believers the Old-Fashioned Way.

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