2 Timothy 3:16

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2 Timothy 316 Luke 11-2 Hebrews 1119
John 173
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What is Your will, Lord ? What is your will,
Lord, on this issue ?
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What is Your will, Lord ? How can we
understand your Truth in relation to all that is
happening in the world ?
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• Wesleyan Quadrilateral a theological model of
  understanding Truth using Scripture, Tradition,
  Reason and Experience.
• What is Your will for me ? Knowing Gods
  Will on personal matters
• What is Your will on a certain matter ?
  Knowing Gods Will on issues
• (such as Purpose of Life, Euthanasia, Engaging
  the Government, Homosexuality, Marriage, Divorce,
  Gambling (betting), Relationships (man-woman,
  friends, family), Career/Work Issues, Wealth
  (should we do all we can to be rich, or not), the
  Environment, Church matters, etc).

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2006 Jude, 2007 Leviticus, 2008 Mark,
2009 - Daniel
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• Wesleyan Quadrilateral a theological model of
  understanding Truth using Scripture, Tradition,
  Reason and Experience.
• What is Your will for me ? Knowing Gods
  Will on personal matters
• What is Your will on a certain matter ?
  Knowing Gods Will on issues
• (such as Purpose of Life, Euthanasia, Engaging
  the Government, Homosexuality, Marriage, Divorce,
  Gambling (betting), Relationships (man-woman,
  friends, family), Career/Work Issues, Wealth
  (should we do all we can to be rich, or not), the
  Environment, Church matters, etc).

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2 Timothy 316 All Scripture is God-breathed
and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting
and training in righteousness,
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• Speak as the Oracles of God believe that the
  Scripture is truly Gods Word and that He will
  grant us
• understanding where needed, and He will fulfill
  His Word.
• Use the Literal sense unless it leads to a
  contradiction with another Scripture or implies
  an absurdity.
• Interpret the text with regards to its
  literary context.
• Scripture interprets Scripture, according to
  the analogy of faith and by parallel passages.
• Commandments are covered promises.
• Interpret literary devices appropriately.
• Seek the most original text and the best
  translation.

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Ephesians 28-9 For it is by grace you have
been saved, through faith and this not from
yourselves, it is the gift of God not of works,
so that no one can boast. James 217 In the
same way, faith by itself, if it is not
accompanied by action (works), is dead.
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• Speak as the Oracles of God believe that the
  Scripture is truly Gods Word and that He will
  grant us
• understanding where needed, and He will fulfill
  His Word.
• Use the Literal sense unless it leads to a
  contradiction with another Scripture or implies
  an absurdity.
• Interpret the text with regards to its
  literary context.
• Scripture interprets Scripture, according to
  the analogy of faith and by parallel passages.
• Commandments are covered promises.
• Interpret literary devices appropriately.
• Seek the most original text and the best
  translation.

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Book of Revelations was a type of literature
known as apocalyptic writings which always use
many symbols such as numbers, or certain types of
imagery, or colours.
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• Speak as the Oracles of God believe that the
  Scripture is truly Gods Word and that He will
  grant us
• understanding where needed, and He will fulfill
  His Word.
• Use the Literal sense unless it leads to a
  contradiction with another Scripture or implies
  an absurdity.
• Interpret the text with regards to its
  literary context.
• Scripture interprets Scripture, according to
  the analogy of faith and by parallel passages.
• Commandments are covered promises.
• Interpret literary devices appropriately.
• Seek the most original text and the best
  translation.

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The living core of the Christian faith was
Revealed in Scripture, Illumined by Tradition,
Confirmed by Reason and Vivified (made alive)
in personal Experience.
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The living core of the Christian faith was
Revealed in Scripture, Illumined by Tradition,
Confirmed by Reason and Vivified (made alive)
in personal Experience.
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• Tradition is the history of Gods interaction
  with Gods people in the past.
• He can ask and trust God to give him wisdom,
• He can also search and consider parallel
  passages of Scriptures,
• He can consult those who are experienced in
  the things of God, and then the writings whereby,
  being dead, they yet speak.

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Luke 11-2 Many have undertaken to draw up an
account of the things that have been fulfilled
among us, just as they were handed down to us by
those who from the first were eyewitnesses and
servants of the word.
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• Tradition is the history of Gods interaction
  with Gods people in the past.
• He can ask and trust God to give him wisdom,
• He can also search and consider parallel
  passages of Scriptures,
• He can consult those who are experienced in
  the things of God, and then the writings whereby,
  being dead, they yet speak.

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The living core of the Christian faith was
Revealed in Scripture, Illumined by Tradition,
Confirmed by Reason and Vivified (made alive)
in personal Experience.
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Hebrews 1119 Abraham reasoned that God could
raise the dead, and figuratively speaking, he did
receive Isaac back from death. 1 Peter 315
But in your hearts set apart Christ as Lord.
Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone
who asks you to give the reason for the hope that
you have. But do this with gentleness and
respect,
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• what does Reason mean and how does it work ?
• Reason means a motive or an argument (when you
  offer a reason for something, whether action,
  idea or decision, you are simply explaining your
  motives or justifying your course of action)
• Reason provides a tool for understanding and
  working with Scripture, Tradition and Experience.
  
• a. Apprehension the first and most simple
  act of understanding, reason simply takes
  note of the object or data before it
• b. Judgment reason processes the data by
  sorting categorizing it, and by establishing
  its relationship with other data
• c. Discourse reason thinks with the data
  by forming ideas and comparing them with other
  data

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The living core of the Christian faith was
Revealed in Scripture, Illumined by Tradition,
Confirmed by Reason and Vivified (made alive)
in personal Experience.
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John 173 Now this is eternal life that they
may know (experientially) you, the only true God,
and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
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• 3 important functions of Experience
• It shows that God is at work in the Christian
• The Christians subjective experience must
  always be firmly established in the objective
  truth of God communicated in the Bible
• Your experience must stand up to the counsel
  of other Christians and not just a secret
  experience that only you have and understand

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Wesleyan Quadrilateral a theological model of
understanding Truth using Scripture, Tradition,
Reason and Experience. Dont leave important
issues such as these to chance Purpose of
Life, Euthanasia, Engaging the Government,
Homosexuality, Marriage, Divorce,
Relationships (man-woman, friends, family),
Gambling (betting) Career/Work Issues, Wealth
(should we do all we can to be rich, or not),
Environment, Church matters, etc.
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Methodist Distinctive Wesleyan Quadrilateral