Most people are not interested in knowing the Bible, they're interested in the cure.
#Adult bible study on prayer by kay arthur how to#
But if I said "I'm going to teach you how to get free from a slavery to a besetting habit or sin" they'd come. Then in my lecture I teach but then they can evaluate whether I got it right or wrong.įor people today, if I announced a study where I was going to teach on Romans 6 - 8, nobody would come. In our Precept courses I never tell them anything, they discover truths on their own. But if they've done Precept, they won't quote me because if they've done Precept (inductive study) they've done the studying themselves. Now, if they quote me and they say, "Kay Arthur says this," it's because they've done one of these 40-minute studies or they've done A Silver Refined, or Our Covenant God, or uh any of my Lord books cause then they would quote me. And our goal at Precept Ministries is to teach them. But how many people do you know who can explain to you the doctrines of justification, sanctification, propitiation, expiation, and redemption? How many people can tell you what Ephesians, Galatians, or Philippians is about? How many people can walk you through the Word of God? No, they know a verse from here, they know a promise from there, but they don't know the context from which they got that verse and so, they really don't understand what Christianity is all about. It's very sobering, and not very popular. They had a religion and not a relationship.
But I think there are going to be people cast into hell who are shocked that they ended up there. I don't think there's going to be anybody in heaven that is surprised to be there. So I believe there's eventually going to be a great shock.
Today, we think it's enough for me to believe it intellectually but we don't have to commit to it in lifestyle. What these people have done is built their house in sand instead of on a rock, because they knew the Word but they didn't use it. "If any man will come after me let him deny himself, take up his cross and follow me." In Matthew 7, Jesus said, "Many will say to me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, have I not cast out demons in your name? Have I not done miracles in your name? Have I not prophesied in your name?'" Jesus is going to look at them and say, "I never knew you," which means they never were truly born again, because when Jesus says "never," it's a "never, never." And he said that not to Christians, he said that to multitudes. Jesus said, "If any man's going to come after me and be my disciple then this is what he has to do. From there I would go to Being a Disciple: Counting the Cost. People have all sorts of relationships with God but they're not always genuine. Then I would take them to Having a Real Relationship with God. I would start with the one called, How Do You Know God's Your Father? It will explain that if you are living in habitual sin, if you don't have a love for other Christians, if you don't have the witness of the Holy Spirit, if you're not walking as Christ walked, then in all probability you've got a religion and not a relationship. They do not require any homework, but you dig into the Scriptures together as a group, as you observe the text, mark the text, and discuss the text. Well, first of all, I would take them through one of our new 40-minute Bible studies. What would you suggest as a Bible study for someone who fears having a "heart for God" because there are too many sacrifices involved? Click here to read another excerpt from the interview: Kay Arthur on the Real Apostle Paul.
Kay Arthur spent some time with talking about her new book, Lord, Give Me A Heart For You.
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