Andrew Fountain - 2010 Foundations 3: The Truth shall set you Free

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1 Four kinds of truth

  1. Knowledge of Facts
    • transferred by teaching, or reading
  2. Skill and ability in using gifts
    • developed by equipping and training
  3. Attitudes
    • are caught rather than taught, by modelling and community
  4. Worldview/belief system
    • can only be learned from stories—our own experiences or other people’s

2. Jesus came to reveal all four of these kinds of truth

3. How can we grow in the truth?

  1. Knowledge of Facts
    • transferred by teaching, or reading
    • Newlife:
      • preaching, homegroups, special series like Freedom in Christ & Christianity Explored
      • This coming year we are planning several new teaching series apart from Sunday, offered evenings or Saturdays
      • We need to grasp the truth by the power of the Spirit
        • often that is our focus when we are praying for people
        • part of what we do in homegroups
      • We want to provide training and encouragement for you to read the Bible yourself
        • and put the truth into practice
  2. Skill and ability in using gifts
    • developed by equipping and training
    • Newlife:
      • We are going to be giving attention to developing spiritual gifts
      • Next Sunday a new series on the Gifts of the Spirit
      • Plus practical development of gifts:
        • evangelism: Street evangelism training
        • prophecy: developing the gift
        • healing: focusing some time on developing this gift
        • teaching: training people to use a teaching gift
        • many other gifts:
  3. Attitudes
    • are caught rather than taught, by modelling and community
    • Newlife:
      • We need to spend time together
        • special events, like the one in Feb
      • At least one retreat this year
  4. Worldview/belief system
    • can only be learned from stories—our own experiences or other people’s
    • Newlife:
      • Testimonies each Sunday (Kerry very soon)
      • Informal sharing
      • Very good to read Christian biographies
      • Want to have some videos of what God has done and is doing
      • Reading the stories in the Bible

Updated on 2010-01-17 (r.118) by Andrew Fountain