Estimated Publication Date: End of November 2022
Current Level of Completion: 70%
NOTE: This book is the first in the Treasuring God, Experiencing Life study series. While it's still in development, our target publication timeframe for this book is the end of November, 2022. If you'd like to be notified when this book is completed, please sign up for our newsletter updates.
This Book’s Place… in This Series
The primary focus of this website is to effectively teach that Treasuring God is the sole path for experiencing true life.
Now… how to “effectively teach” this concept… has occupied my thoughts for over three years. What I’ve come to realize is that this concept can most effectively be taught as a “orderly progression” of four basic steps for “Treasuring the One, True God”—with each successive step being enabled by the prior steps. And, that effectively addressing those four steps naturally leads to what I believe are five key aspects of “Experiencing the one True Life.”
This book explains the initial “step” in the overall progression: that our thoughts, beliefs, and values determine our perspective. And our perspective literally controls what we look for when we read and study His Word, what we actually see in His Word, and the value that we ascribe to God.
Therefore, we must understand how our perspective “works”… so that we can effectively understand God’s Word, so that we can intently behold His glory, so that we can preeminently esteem His worth, and so that we can fully experience true life in Him.
Questions Addressed By This Book
Here is an overview of some of the many questions this book addresses:
- What are “progressions” and why are they important?
- What are some common progressions in the Bible?
- What progressions are presented in the content on this website?
- What are “perspectives” and why are they important?
- How are perspectives formed?
- How can we know what our perspectives are?
- Is it possible to change a perspective, and if so, how is that done?
- Why are these issues presented first in the instructional materials on this website?
Preliminary Outline
What follows is the content outline for the book, Faithfully Embracing God’s Perspective. (While this outline may change slightly, it provides a thorough description for the content covered in this book.)
Outline - Faithfully Embracing God's Perspective
Section 1 - Preface
Preface 1 – About The Author
Why This Preface Is Important
How I Became A Christian
My Ordinary Christian Experience
My Doctrinal Perspective
My Core Beliefs
My Teaching Methodology
Preface 2 – Acknowledgements
Caveats
Contributors
Credits For The Ideas In This Book
Personal Disclaimers
Section 2 - Introduction
Chapter 1 – About This Study Series
Two Definitions
The Nature of This Study Series
The Background For This Study Series
The Main Goal of This Study Series
A Secondary Goal of This Study Series
Who This Series Was Written For
Clarification and Encouragement
Chapter 2 – Crucial Definitions
Definition of Progressions
Scriptural Examples of Biblical Progesssions
Recognizing and Understanding Biblical Progesssions
Chapter 3 – The Progression That Leads to True Life
Define True Life
Four Steps to Treasuring God
Five Results from Treasuring God
The Progression: Treasuring God, Experiencing Life
Chapter 4 – About This Book
Definition of Perspective
Questions This Book Addresses
Section 3 - A Biblical Perspective of Life
Chapter 5 – Perspectives And Why They Matter
What Perspective Is
Types of Perspective
A Worldly, Non-Biblical Perspective
A Godly, Biblical Perspective of life
Why Perspective is Important
Testing Your Current Perspective
Chapter 6 – A Proper Perspective of True Life
Where We Look for Life
The Meaning of Life
Essential Elements of a Proper Perspective
Chapter 7 – A Proper Perspective of God
The Essential Starting Point for Knowledge
How God’s Reveals Himself
What God’s Reveals About Himself
God’s Sovereign Intentions for Man
God’s Sovereign Intentions for His Creation
God’s Sovereign Intentions for His Word
Chapter 8 – A Proper Perspective of the Bible
The Uniqueness of the Bible as Spirit
The Uniqueness of the Bible as Life
The Uniqueness of the Bible as Truth
The Uniqueness of the Bible as Literature
Authors and Inspiration of the Bible
Content and Organization of the Bible
Compilation of the Old and New Testaments
Trustworthy Bible Versions
The Unique Excellence of the Bible
Chapter 9 – A Proper Perspective of the Gospel
The Gospel as the Essence of the Bible
The 7 Concepts of the Gospel Story
Building Our Understanding of the Gospel
The Bible as an Owner’s Manual
The Bible as a Love Letter
The Revelation of the Gospel
The Unique Excellence of the Gospel
Chapter 10 – Forming a Biblical Perspective
How We Develop a Godly Perspective
How We Maintain a Godly Perspective
Section 4 - Workbook: Faithfully Embracing God's Perspective
Chapter 11 – Final Test
What You’ve Learned About Perspective
Chapter 12 – My Answers
My Personal Answers About Pespective
Section 5 - Appendices
Appendices
Appendix A – Why and How to Become a Christian
Appendix B – Types of Bibles & Bible Studies
Appendix C – Helpful Resources for Learning God’s Word
Appendix D – Notes for Pastors and Disciple Makers