2. FOCUS SHIFT

4. Northwoods New Vision: “We are a family, a friendly
church dedicated to glorifying God by loving Jesus and making disciples who make disciples”

5. “A Major Challenge: Whose Voice Will We Choose to Hear”
FOCUS SHIFT
“A Major Challenge: Whose Voice Will We Choose to Hear”
Mark 1:15
2 Timothy 3: 16-17

6. “When people talk
consider the Source”

7. Screaming for Our Attention
Important Choice:
Multiple Voices are
Screaming for Our Attention
Whose Voice am I more
willing to listen to?

8. Wesley considered Scripture
Value of Scripture
Wesley considered Scripture
the primary source to listen to for all Christian Beliefs
and Doctrine

9. Wesley then considered
Value of Scripture
Wesley then considered
Tradition, the experience of faith development since the early church, as worthy
of our consideration

10. Wesley affirmed Reason next,
Value of Scripture
Wesley affirmed Reason next,
where the individual brings to bear on their Christian faith
rationale discernment and thought

11. “The Way to the Kingdom”
However in his sermon,
“The Way to the Kingdom”
Wesley warned that the religion of Jesus does not consist of orthodoxy, believing correctly
with the mind

12. “The Way to the Kingdom”
In his sermon,
“The Way to the Kingdom”
Wesley warned that Christianity is first and foremost a religion
“of the heart!”

13. more important than reason.
Value of Scripture
Wesley therefore considered Experience, the work of the Holy Spirit in the
heart of a believer,
more important than reason.

14. What is the Bible’s Message?
A Great Question:
What is the Bible’s Message?

15. What is the Bible’s Message?
“The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the Gospel.”
Mark 1: 15

16. What is the Bible’s Message? “For Wesley the overriding
concern in interpreting the
Bible is how a person can
be saved from sin and
for salvation!”
Wesley’s Sermon, “ The Way to the Kingdom”

17. What is value of Scripture today?
“All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for [a]
instruction in righteousness, that
child of God may be equipped…”
2 Timothy 3:

18. “All Scripture is given by inspiration of God” Greek Term: theopneust
What is value of Scripture today?
“All Scripture is given by inspiration of God”
Greek Term: theopneust
“God-Breathed”
Scripture was breathed
out by God—HE is it’s Source!

19. I follow it in all things,
“My ground is the Bible.
Yea, I am a Bible-bigot.
I follow it in all things,
both great and small.”
Wesley’s Journal, 5 June, 1766

20. SO
WHAT?

21. Whose Voice Will
We Choose to Hear?