Tradition As a Useful Teaching Tool – Exodus 13:14
Tradition can be a useful teaching tool. Know the origin and significance of your traditions. And use that to teach your children about their history.
Tradition can be a useful teaching tool. Know the origin and significance of your traditions. And use that to teach your children about their history.
The Wesleyan Quadrilateral defines four sources of theology: the Scripture foremost; but then church tradition, experience and reason.
As far as the Pharisees were concerned, Jesus was not a very good Jew. He seemed somewhat disinterested in following all of the traditions that had developed over the years, and they took offense with this. Eventually they challenged him over his disregard of their traditions and received the following in response. He replied, “Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites; as it is written: “‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. They worship me in vain; their teachings are merely human rules.’ You have let go of the commands of …
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