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  How would you prioritize the three reasons given in this lesson for studying the Bible: “It is essential to knowing and loving God;” “It is essential for growing up in God;” and “It is essential to serving God”? What is the basis for how you prioritize them?

  Austin replied 2 months ago 115 Members · 115 Replies

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  Austin

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  07/31/2022 at 18:27

  The Bible is Essential for Growing up in God, is the most important. We have to grow in our understanding of who God is. We have to understand His omnipotence, His omniscience and His omnipresence. Only then will webegin to break the surface of knowing Him, and knowing why we should love Him. Only then can we serve Him in Spirit and Truth.

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  Austin

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  07/29/2022 at 09:26

  #1 Essential for knowing and loving God
  #2 Essential to growing up in God
  #3 Essential to serving God
  Buy knowing and loving God fully and maturing in our faith, we are able to serve God with the right motives out of love for God and others.

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  Austin

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  07/28/2022 at 23:32

  First, you need to know God, in order to serve Him. Then you need to grow in God which is linked very closely in serving God. Even a child can serve God as they grow in God. A “child” may serve God in one way, and an “adult” serve in a very different way as they grow in God. .The first reason is to me, the most important, as it is the foundation. If you don’t know and love God, then it may be too easy to say you are serving God, when really what you are doing is following the path you want to follow, not the path God wants you to follow.

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  Austin

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  07/27/2022 at 13:04

  Sometimes I though the order doesn’t really matter. Because I knew that God loves me and I love God, and then I wanted to serve God in one of the ways. While I served, I grew up in God, and then I studied more, learned and loved God more. If I have to place them in a order, it’s more like a two-way triangle.

  Knowing & loving God < — > Grow up in God
  ^ ^
  \ /
  v v
  Serving God

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  Austin

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  07/21/2022 at 07:52

  It is essential to know and love God

  It is essential to grow in knowledge of God

  It is essential to serve God and fulfill advancing my maturity and His Kingdom

  One builds on the other. You can’t build with the end goal without the first blocks

  They are equally important

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