ROUGHLY EDITED COPY CUENet AUDIO TRANSCRIPTION DOGMATICS 2 LESSON 10 Captioning Provided By: Caption First, Inc. 10 E. 22nd Street Suite 304 Lombard, IL 60148 800-825-5234 *** This text is being provided in a rough draft format. Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) is provided in order to facilitate communication accessibility and may not be a totally verbatim record of the proceedings. *** >> You've indicated that Christology will be the foundation of our ministry and our preaching. Perhaps we can learn something helpful from the work of the first disciples in this regard. What did the apostles say about Jesus when they began preaching about him? >> DR. DAVID SCAER: We have a record about what the apostles first preached about Jesus from the book of Acts. And there are several sermons there which have been recorded which are very helpful in understanding what the early church thought about Jesus. And it's also helpful for us on how we should preach when we're preaching to those people about whom we're not absolutely sure that they are Christians. They preached four things. First of all, they said that Jesus died for sins. The second thing is -- that they said about him is that he rose from the dead. And always a part of their sermons was the judgement theme, that he was going to come back and hold people accountable for whether or not they believed in him. And then they proclaimed that Jesus was the Christ. This I think can be very significant for you when you begin preaching, which perhaps you already are doing. And that is sermons to audiences which have a mixture between Christians and non-Christians should really concentrate on those four points. And that we shouldn't go into detail about the life of Jesus. Or we shouldn't go into detail about doctrinal matters. Because those things should be brought up only after a person has been convinced that Jesus is the Christ. Being confronted with the crucifixion and the resurrection of Jesus and that he will return as the judge of all men, then people have the opportunity to believe him or to reject him. And this is the way that the apostles first preached. *** This text is being provided in a rough draft format. Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) is provided in order to facilitate communication accessibility and may not be a totally verbatim record of the proceedings. ***