By Pastor Tony Ontanyon
This week I will continue discussing our beliefs and identity as Methodists. John Wesley used a method to educate his preachers to improve their understanding of faith, salvation, grace or any theological task or doctrine. He did it by following a process, today it may be called technique, to discover the truth of God where an individual, or collective Christian faith follow, arrives at the truth as the unique foundational origin. The foundation of the Wesley’s method and the one that maintains the others together is the Scripture. When we analyze the Bible, this analysis must be encompassed by Church Tradition; the personal Experience of the individual or the community, and involved in logical Reason to see that it is genuine truth.
Three equal corners are Tradition, Experience, and Reason. Is this conclusion making sense? Does it work? The other angle is Scripture, which is the foundational stonewall. The other three are subordinated and secondary to the Bible.
Join us this coming Sunday, March 15th, 2020, please, to explore and share the meaning of Scripture as the foundation of our faith, trying to discover the Word of God in our lives. Waiting for you at 10 am at the “Old Stone Church.” 140 Tennille St, Caliente, NV.
This week I will continue discussing our beliefs and identity as Methodists. John Wesley used a method to educate his preachers to improve their understanding of faith, salvation, grace or any theological task or doctrine. He did it by following a process, today it may be called technique, to discover the truth of God where an individual, or collective Christian faith follow, arrives at the truth as the unique foundational origin. The foundation of the Wesley’s method and the one that maintains the others together is the Scripture. When we analyze the Bible, this analysis must be encompassed by Church Tradition; the personal Experience of the individual or the community, and involved in logical Reason to see that it is genuine truth.
Three equal corners are Tradition, Experience, and Reason. Is this conclusion making sense? Does it work? The other angle is Scripture, which is the foundational stonewall. The other three are subordinated and secondary to the Bible.
Join us this coming Sunday, March 15th, 2020, please, to explore and share the meaning of Scripture as the foundation of our faith, trying to discover the Word of God in our lives. Waiting for you at 10 am at the “Old Stone Church.” 140 Tennille St, Caliente, NV.