A discernment and equipping ministry
Learn to test it yourself.
Most teaching you will ever hear is delivered with confidence. Confidence is not the test. The Bereans were called noble not because they trusted Paul, an apostle, but because they went home and checked his preaching against the Scriptures to see whether it was so.
This site exists to teach you that habit. Not to hand you a list of approved and forbidden names, but to give you the method, so that the next time someone teaches in God’s name, you can open the Word and weigh it for yourself.
Codex Vaticanus (Vat.gr.1209), 4th century. Vatican Library. Public domain.
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The Berean Method: How to Receive Teaching and Test It
Testing Teachers · Part 1The believers in Berea were commended for double-checking an apostle, and their example gives every believer the pattern for testing teaching against Scripture.
- Scripture Interprets Scripture: The Third Skill of Discernment The Skills of Discernment · Part 3 How to let the Bible's clear passages guide your reading of the difficult ones, and why this skill only works after context and genre.
- Reading by Genre: The Second Skill of Discernment The Skills of Discernment · Part 2 Why you have to read a psalm differently than a proverb, and how missing a passage's genre is one of the most common ways careful readers still get misled.
- Reading in Context: The First Skill of Discernment The Skills of Discernment · Part 1 Why the most important discernment skill is also the most basic: learning to read a passage in its own context before deciding what it means.