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Israel Wayne: Answering The Essential Questions Of Christianity · Worldview Matters With David Fiorazo

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  Welcome to World View Matters, discussing controversial issues, discerning current events,
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  defending biblical Christianity.
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  And now, here's your host, David Firazzo.
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  Hey friends, thanks for tuning in.
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  Our guest today, Israel Wayne, the website is familyrenewal.org.
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  Before we get to him and his brand new book, Foundational Truths, I want to mention just
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  So we are so blessed today to have my brother and friends.
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  Been a while since I've talked to him, Israel Wayne, he's busy traveling, doing conferences,
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  writing books.
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  He's an author and conference speaker.
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  Israel has got a passion for defending the Christian faith and promoting a biblical
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  worldview.
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  Thank you, sir.
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  He's the author of the book's Questions, God asks, questions, Jesus asks, pitch and
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  a fit overcoming angry and stressed out parenting, education, does God have an opinion?
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  Answers for homeschooling, top 25 questions, critics ask, raising them up, parenting for
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  Christians, foundations and faith and foundational truth.
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  Brother, you've been busy, Israel Wayne.
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  Good to see you.
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  Thanks for coming on the program.
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  As always, it's great to be back on your show.
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  Yeah, good to see you.
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  And I want to thank master books, master books catalog the curriculum.
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  They sent me this.
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  I was going through this and you, of course, you've got a brand new book, right?
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  On the inside cover, here inside pages, there are a lot of amazing resources in this
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  catalog.
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  And I've glad for you to just mention a few words because you've published with them several
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  books now.
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  Yeah, I've been working with master books for about 11 years and they are one of the world's
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  largest creation publishers, apologetics publishers, but they got into doing homeschool
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  curriculum about 11 years ago and have a full K 12 homeschool curriculum, which is really
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  wonderful.
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  My family uses it and we appreciate what they do.
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  And they are committed to biblical authority and they have great integrity.
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  And I have really enjoyed the last decade or so working with master books.
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  If you haven't checked out their website, do so.
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  It's masterbooks.com and they also have an app.
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  So for homeschoolers who want to plug into a homeschool community, just look up masterbooks
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  app and you can join discussions and learn all kinds of great, they have freebies and all
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  kinds of fun things on the app.
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  So Israel, your book, first of all, let's talk about family renewal dot or you've got
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  three different websites.
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  You can, of course, friends can go to Israel Wayne dot com.
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  The other one that we really like, Christian world view dot net and it's right on the home
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  page.
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  What is a biblical world view?
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  Everyone has a world view and then of course family renewal.
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  Now that's your main site and people can get to your books by going to the store there
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  at family renewal dot org.
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  So just tell us a little bit about your background and because this is the first time we've had
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  you on this show, we've got a lot of newer viewers and we're constantly gaining, growing
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  the audience, praise God.
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  And so just share a little bit about your background and family renewal.
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  Well, I was homeschooled as a student.
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  My mom was one of the pioneers of the homeschool movement back in the 1970s and 80s.
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  And so I grew up in that world.
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  I started working for a publishing company that she founded.
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  She was one of the founders of a longest running Christian homeschool magazines in the
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  country.
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  And so I worked for her publishing company for 20 years.
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  And then about 11 years ago, I just went full time into writing and speaking and I have
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  really enjoyed that.
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  I've been speaking at conferences for over 30 years and just enjoy getting to work with
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  families.
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  We talk a lot about marriage and parenting and Christian education, apologetics, biblical
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  world view.
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  My wife and I have been married over 25 years.
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  We have 11 children ages 24 down to three and we have six, six girls and five boys.
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  So obviously we are definitely in the deep end of the parenting pool.
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  So to speak with all that and I have four teenagers living in my house right now.
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  If that tells you something about my life, but it's a blessing and we get to travel.
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  In fact, this last weekend, I was speaking at the Illinois State Homeschool Conference
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  and my whole family was able to be there.
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  The young ones who are still at home and we were all over there together as a family.
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  And so I love that we get to travel as a family and speak around the country and it's just
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  been delightful.
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  Yeah.
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  God's using you big time brother.
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  But 24 down to three, that is a vast spread out of years and ages and what an amazing.
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  Did you say six and five, yes, six girls and five boys?
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  Wow, may praise God.
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  So let's get to your book and that's why we're having you on because it's so well done.
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  I went through this friends, they were kind enough to send me a copy.
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  So many great questions answered and there's definitions, just there's scripture checklists
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  and everyone has a prayer for the week after every one of them.
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  But I want to start with the word catechism is real because the book is called foundational
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  truths, a modern catechism answering the essential questions of Christianity.
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  Well, this is interesting because for those not familiar with the term catechism, some
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  people might think it's just that's denominational or it's just a Catholic term, but just share
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  why you decided to put a modern catechism on the subtitle.
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  So catechism simply means question and answer.
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  And so when we talk about catechism, it's a means or a method of teaching that utilizes
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  the question answer format.
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  And the church used catechism to teach Bible doctrine and theology for centuries.
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  In fact, the very first Protestant catechism was written by Martin Luther and every Protestant
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  and evangelical denomination used the catechism until about 100 years ago.
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  Some still do, but every church did until about 100 years ago when denominational publishing
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  houses started just putting out their own Sunday school materials, which kind of overshadowed
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  the catechism approach.
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  But I have always felt that there's a benefit in some of the methodology that stood the test
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  of time, if you will, and the approach of asking important vital Bible doctrine questions
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  has been used by churches for new believers in those classes, as well as with children.
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  And I felt like it was time for us to get back to that approach, but to do so in a fresh
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  way.
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  So this catechism is different in that it's not published by particular denomination.
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  It's not pushing a particular sectarian viewpoint.
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  It really is just simply asking the 52 top Bible doctrine questions and answering them
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  as much as possible directly from the scripture itself.
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  And very thorough answer.
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  Thank you.
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  And I just think of your other website, ChristianWorldView.net.
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  You're taking the biblical approach to answer life's tough questions or questions is about
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  the Bible theology.
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  And I had to go back and look up just information on catechisms.
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  And I didn't realize, I mean, even in it says, the need arose in England after King Henry
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  the eighth broke with the Church of Rome in 1536 and the 1545 convening of the Council
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  of Trent.
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  I've talked about all these different catechisms, all these different councils mentions the
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  Westminster Confession of Faith.
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  And so thank you for clarifying that because we need to just understand just because we
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  don't hear that word a lot in evangelical churches or in our, you know, modern language.
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  We don't hear catechism a lot, but that's very, it's a very good because it's question
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  answers.
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  So the next thing I wanted to ask you, when you had, when you were writing this book,
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  who did you have in mind and what did you want the outcome of this particular book answering
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  essential questions for anybody, for children, for families, for seekers?
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  Just share your thoughts on that.
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  Well, I had two groups in mind, my, my, my, the center of the target, if you will, for
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  me was to see fathers and mothers open this up in the living room with their children and
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  do this in the home as a family discipleship resource.
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  That was my number one goal because I think that's the best way to be able to pass on the
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  faith is multi generationally.
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  Just discipling their own children and making sure that their children really understand
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  the Christian faith.
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  So that was my primary goal.
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  And then the second thing was I told the publisher and then when we design it, let's please
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  try not to design it in a way that is childish because I believe this could work in a number
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  of other formats as well.
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  And it has been used in so many places already.
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  In fact, the church and I'm a part of has a jail ministry and they're actually using it
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  in the jail ministry, which is really powerful.
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  And so there are new believers who come into churches that they're using this in new
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  believers classes and adult Sunday school classes, small groups, youth groups, children's
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  churches and, you know, Sunday school classes for children.
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  So it's, it's very expandable, you know, can be utilized in a number of formats.
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  But if I was going to pick one, I think families using this as a supplement to their
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  own family devotion, so it was really kind of what I had in mind.
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  You wrote a book years ago, I don't know how many years now, a history of homeschooling.
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  Is that right?
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  I have written several books on homeschooling.
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  I have one that's called Answers for Homeschooling, which in the preface of that, I talk about
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  the history of the homeschooling movement.
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  And that's interesting because how far back did you go?
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  I mean, did you go back to Deuteronomy and mentioned, is it Deuteronomy six, six or nine?
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  I think it's chapter six when it talks, when it, it tells that they're telling their
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  children to, or they're instructed to speak about these things.
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  God's word when they're going about the day, when they're getting up, when they lay
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  down at night.
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  It doesn't mention eating or going to the bathroom.
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  So there are a few times where you would, but it really, if you're raising children in
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  the faith, you want to teach them and talk about the word of God.
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  And this, you've got 52 weeks, lessons, 52 lessons in here.
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  Go ahead and share the importance of that because we forget, but this goes way back to
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  Old Testament, not just just not on modern American thing, the homeschooling movement,
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  right?
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  The Christian education.
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  This is our world view.
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  Go ahead, Israel.
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  Yeah, absolutely.
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  Deuteronomy six talks about our obligation to teach our children.
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  We wake up in the morning when we're inside our house or if we're outside our house.
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  So I always think of how comprehensive that is.
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  And sometimes that's parents like, is there every time when you're, when you're not
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  in your house or out of your house, you know, it seems pretty universal until you lay
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  down at night.
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  And, and then, you know, other passages like this was one that jumped out at me years
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  ago.
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  Deuteronomy 30, it talked about how God commanded his people to gather the whole assembly
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  of Israel from the oldest to the very youngest and read the entire law of God every seven
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  years.
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  And I thought about that as a dad and I thought I get approximately three cycles of that
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  seven year period to be able to teach the word of God to my children.
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  And I thought about how children will receive things at the age of seven and understand
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  it and interpret it.
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  And then at the age of 14 and then as they're leaving our home as older teens, young adults,
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  you know, how we get almost three cycles with them to be able to teach the law of God.
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  And I thought, you know, I want to do that with my children just to be able to be systematic
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  and going through the entire Bible three times with them before they leave my home.
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  And so I've been working on a lot of resources.
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  I created a Bible doctrine curriculum for high schoolers called foundations in faith.
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  It's like a 36 week course on Bible doctrine and theology books on how to do this as a
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  parent.
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  I've one called raising them up parenting for Christians.
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  But I just think it's essential, especially for fathers that we learn how to disciple
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  our kids.
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  And I know it's a long-winded answer.
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  But I think a lot of dads feel very intimidated with discipling their kids because they didn't
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  have the example.
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  Yes.
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  You know, their fathers didn't sit them down and do Bible time with them.
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  They didn't have dads who led them spiritually.
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  And I just want to encourage those dads that it's got to start somewhere.
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  Yeah.
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  You know, you can't just wait and to hope somewhere down the road, somebody else starts
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  doing it.
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  It ultimately has to start with us.
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  Thank you, Israel.
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  You've got the resources available at FamilyRenewal.org to do what a lot of pastors sadly are not
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  doing, equipping the saints and teaching them, ministering to them, getting these truths.
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  Foundational truths is the book, friends.
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  So Israel Wayne, by the way, if someone wanted to have you come and speak at their church
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  or at a conference or at an event, what's the best way, the best website, best way to
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  get a hold of you?
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  So our website is israelwayne.com and it has all the information on how to contact us,
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  my speaking topics, my availability, my schedule, everything.
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  So check out israelwayne.com and we would love to connect with you.
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  I'm going to be speaking at a home school family camp up in Wisconsin in this later on,
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  I think it's no next summer in 2025 and I get all over the country.
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  So lots of great opportunities to connect with people in churches and conferences everywhere.
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  Awesome.
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  So I want to mention some of the chapter titles in the new book, foundational truths.
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  I saw one on sanctification.
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  I see what is the purpose of God's law, what is justification, when will Jesus return?
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  Why must Christians obey God?
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  Is there any other way to be saved besides trusting in the sacrifice of Jesus Christ as
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  the only atonement for our sin?
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  Very important questions, Israel and you've got 52 of them.
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  Anything you want to share about how I'm sure there were a lot more, how you narrowed
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  it down and what was your focus when you did that?
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  But thankfully there were a lot of historic catechisms that have been written over the
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  last 500 years of church history that I drew from and was able to look at the things that
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  were prioritized, you know, the ones that kind of made it into all of the different catechisms
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  and confessions.
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  And so those were things that were important to draw from.
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  We actually wanted to have the scriptures listed in the book right beside the question
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  of the answers.
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  And they're color coded, they're highlighted so that people can see the verses that we
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  drew from for the answers so that they don't just, you know, because we didn't want to
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  just be somebody's opinion about these issues.
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  We wanted to be as much as possible drawing phrases from the scripture itself.
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  And we used the King James version in the book, families who wanted to use a different
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  version could just, you know, supplement with whatever version they wanted to use.
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  But in the book, we use the KJV and just wanted to make it something that's real open,
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  open and go, you know, that you can't mess it up.
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  And there's also like a life application section where we talk about how to apply it
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  to our lives.
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  There's some definitions of terms because there's a few words in the Bible that some students
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  may not be familiar with.
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  So we define a few terms, close the day with a prayer and we also have a shorter catechism
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  if you will.
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  So there's the longer answer, but then we also have just a one liner.
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  So if we want young children to be able to memorize just a one line answer, we've done
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  that as well.
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  Wow.
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  Sounds like you thought of everything.
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  But I just want to show you guys this because you see the colors there.
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  Those are all the scriptures.
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  And then right over on this side, there's a prayer after everyone.
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  Whose idea was that to end the lesson or the week because it's 52 weeks with a prayer?
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  I think that's really good.
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  We have some amazing editors that work at Masterbooks and they actually are really good at
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  kind of, they write, you know, they help to format curriculum.
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  So they were able to kind of round out the elements of this that would be helpful.
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  So I did the heavy listing on lifting on the questions, the answers and finding all the
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  Bible verses that support those things.
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  And then our editors helped us with some of the other elements to make sure it was a fully
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  orbed experience for the user.
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  So you mentioned families, dads, moms using this very easy to go through with your kids.
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  What about churches?
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  Churches could have this kind of curriculum, maybe for Sunday school or I'm sure it could
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  be used in many ways at a church, right?
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  Absolutely.
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  And the 52 questions make a great once a week lesson.
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  It can be short and so you can easily accommodate this in a once a week Sunday school class.
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  And again, it's just beautifully laid out.
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  It's very aesthetically appealing.
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  The publisher did a great job with that.
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  And so yeah, we would love to have churches use this as well.
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  And some of the historic catechisms, you go back all the way to earlier affirmation,
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  for example, some of the early catechisms were like one denomination, kind of taking
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  pot shots at another denomination if I'm honest about it.
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  And so we wanted to make sure that this was not that that we were focusing on the things
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  that we all agree upon within biblical Christianity.
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  And so rather than highlighting some of the secondary doctrines or highlighting the differences,
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  we really wanted students to become grounded in the things that the fine biblical Christianity
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  and that really all true believers in Christ would believe and hold central as core doctrines.
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  Excellent.
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  I'm just going through that looking at the chapters again, are there more gods than one
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  who created everything?
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  How did God create things?
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  For what purpose?
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  I think of Colossians, is it?
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  All things were created through him and for him, mentioning Jesus Christ.
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  Absolutely.
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  I just want to read something, a book quote here that I got, Israel, just have you expound
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  on that.
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  It says, there is no substitute for the Bible, creeds, confessions and catechisms are not
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  ever to be a replacement for the Bible, they are simply tools that can help Christians
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  understand in a more systematic way what the Bible teaches and that's the approach you
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  take on this.
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  Go ahead and share more.
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  Yeah.
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  I mean, if anybody goes to church and they listen to a pastor sermon, he doesn't just read
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  the Bible to you for 30 to 45 minutes.
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  He takes a text from the scripture and he helps to explain it, helps to teach what does
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  this mean and how do we apply it to our lives.
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  And so just as a pastor's sermon is a great supplement to the scripture that hopefully
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  he's handling it correctly and all of that, there are other resources that can be helpful
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  for us as Christians as well.
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  And like I said, as much as possible, we wanted to just take these essential ideas of what
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  is Christianity and what is important about Christianity, but then to draw the answers
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  from the Word of God because no human, no church, no counsel, no author or speaker is
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  infallible.
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  We all are subservient to and under the Word of God.
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  And so as much as possible, we wanted the verbiage, the wording of these answers to be
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  drawn from the Bible itself, again, because we don't really care about people's opinions.
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  We care about what did God say and how does God answer these questions?
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  Himself from the words of holy scripture.
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  So that was our goal and our intent.
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  Yeah.
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  Well, you said something I thought of Ken Ham and how he explains things, sometimes
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  talks about the authority of the scriptures and we don't think we don't say what does
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  this mean to me or it's what did God say, right?
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  He always focuses what did God say?
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  What does he mean by that?
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  Not what what it means does because we can make the Bible into something that it's not
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  and we often do.
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  That's where interpretation comes in.
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  So mention some other chapters or was there some sort of a layout the way you what you
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  started with?
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  In other words, I see that you did not start with creation, but you did start with the
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  existence of God.
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  Number one, how can we know there is a God?
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  So share a little bit more about the progression of how you put the book together, Israel.
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  Sure.
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  Well, part of it, we kind of wanted to follow a chronology of how the Bible deals with
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  doctrine.
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  And so, you know, you just read one of the first words of the Bible itself in the beginning
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  God.
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  And so the Bible doesn't set out to prove the existence of God.
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  It presupposes the existence of God.
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  And so it states and declares his existence and then it explains not just that God exists,
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  but what he did in history and then it talks about creation.
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  So, you know, we move from the nature and character of God who he is to the creation.
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  And then we go from there into the Bible itself, right?
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  Because if we don't understand that the Bible is God's inspired and fallible and errant
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  word, then we really can't trust anything that's in it.
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  And so we need to know that the 66 books of the Bible are indeed the word of God.
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  And then we talk about the fall and how did how did things go bad, right?
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  Where did sin come into the world?
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  Whose fault was that?
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  And so we talk about the nature of man.
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  And then of course, we talk about God's judgment because God is a holy God.
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  And so being holy, he has to judge sin, which leads us of course to the remedy for sin,
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  which is the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  And so we have the laws, the schoolmaster that brings us to Christ, but Christ and his
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  atonement on the cross ultimately is what brings us back into a right relationship with
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  God.
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  And so then from there, of course, we want to talk about Jesus, who he is, what he did,
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  and then moving forward into what is the church.
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  And then aspects of the church, we talk about communion and baptism and just being part
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  of the body of Christ and then our life as Christians, our responsibility to share our
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  faith with others and sanctification, how once we're saved and we talk about justification,
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  what is that?
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  That's when we are declared righteous before God because we have a toning work of Jesus
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  Christ.
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  Sanctification, what is that when God helps us to grow into mature as believers?
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  And so it really is just fairly fully orbed in terms of the content and the scope of what
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  we're trying to address, but in a simple and concise way.
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  So the website familyrenewal.org, we're with Israel Wayne and we just have a few more
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  minutes.
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  I'm just looking at the very back number 52, week 52.
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  What is the final destination for Christians in eternity?
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  51 is, must believers tell others about the gospel of Jesus Christ, but I want to touch
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  on, have you touched on number 49 is real, prayer is aligning our will to God.
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  It seems very basic maybe for many of us, but a lot of people think it's asking God for
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  things, but that's not what it is.
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  Go ahead and share your thoughts.
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  That's a very important one.
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  Well, I just had a lady two nights ago at a conference in Illinois, Chicago, asked me
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  that question.
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  So my son says, why do I keep praying?
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  I pray it doesn't work.
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  And I said, well, it depends on what you mean by work.
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  Are you thinking God's a genie in a bottle is going to answer every prayer request?
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  Prayer is aligning our will to the will of God.
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  And so there's so many things to teach our children in the back of the book too.
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  We have like the 10 commandments.
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  We have a Psalm 23.
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  We have the Beatitudes, just some really basic things in the Bible that children can memorize.
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  That's a lot in this resource.
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  It is.
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  And I'm glad you used the word resource, phenomenal guys, foundational truths.
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  You can check it out at familyrenewal.org.
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  It's by master books.
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  Israel, it's so good to reconnect with you again, brother.
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  I know you're continuing to do God's work and put it out great books.
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  So I know Lord willing will talk to you again in the near future.
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  God bless you and your family, brother.
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  Thank you.
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  Appreciate you, brother.
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  Thank you.
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  Thank you so much.
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  Again, guys, the websites, you can go to his personal website, israelwayne.com.
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  Also you can go to ChristianWorldview.net, but his main site, familyrenewal.org, really
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  phenomenal.
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  If you look through this book, whether you have kids or not, a great teaching tool, maybe
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  for your church, think about it or as a gift.
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  But thank you guys again, just for supporting the show and allowing us to bring on excellent
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  guests that can help equip, inform, and sometimes challenge us in our maybe comfortable Christianity
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  and not much in the Bible about that being comfortable.
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  But anyway, God bless you, friends, and as always, keep speaking the truth about things
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  that matter.
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  See you next time.