There are five parts to learning:

1) Don't have a clue

2) Data: which is simply the ability to remember information

3) Knowledge: Which is having the data and knowing what it means. For example many can quote scripture backwards and forwards but they do not really understand what it all means.

4) Application: One step up from knowledge and this is where we begin to have some practical experience not only on what scripture says, but begin to learn how to apply it. One ingredient still missing which is experience and how it all works and comes together.

5) Wisdom: which is having the information, knowing how to use it, being able to apply it in our own lives which will bring wisdom so we can help others.

 

Our prayer is that everyone reaches wisdom level on all what the courses are about because without wisdom which is knowing what He says is not only true because we believe it but we have experienced it. If we have not experienced His love, mercy, power, relationship and forgiveness it is much like selling used cars. If we are selling used cars or rather concepts that we have never experienced ourselves, we will never be able to build good relationships with others or even God. Once we have wisdom and begin to build relationship with God and others then we begin to fit and function into the body and our particular calling and purpose.

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The courses are good and have good information but what is important is the final product or end result of being in the body, being able to function in it and being able to encourage and exhort others in the body to work as one body in Him. Usually it is not God's will that hold us back but our functionality or lack of it. Throughout the ODB, web site you will see references made as to the definition of Christ. We have come to understand that Christ is made of two parts working together. The first part is Jesus the head and the second part is us, the body working with Him and each other as one body to accomplish His will on earth as it is heaven. 

To accomplish this we preach Christ crucified, not just Jesus who died for use some 2,000 years ago that we may live, but the body dying to our own wills and desires working together in relationship covenant to accomplish His will as we die daily to self and learn to surrender to Him and His will for us. While we recognize this is process that takes time this should be our desire, to work with Him and to work with the body daily and that should be of primary importance to us everyday of our lives. If we all did that, this world would be very different. Our focus shows our heart as our focus and what we focus on, we become. Should we focus on the world and the solutions of the world we become like the world and no better. If we stay focused on Him and work with His body then we become like Him, which is our salvation. It is the same for all of us. Christ truly is the only way for things to get turned around in our lives. When our lives turn to Him it will effect all others around us and we become the light of the world and shine a path to Him.

What is this about? You might be asking yourself and it is a fair question. What it is all about is relationships and partnerships with Jesus and the body. It is in forming these relationships with each other and Him as the focal point that allows us to do or accomplish what we have been called to do. How are relationships formed? By experience not only with each other as part of the body but with Him as well. Many can quote scripture back and forth but when asked what that really means or how to put scripture to practical use in everyday life, many believers do not really understand, however they still quote scriptures at people and because they do not understand the ones they are trying to help usually go away lost. 

For lack of a better example, the body and relationships are much like a boat and it is either it is a boat that can sail through the seas rough as they may be or the boat is like the Titanic and does a nose dive. Folks we are all in this together and even scripture tells us that one part of the body cannot get ahead of the other parts of the body. We as a body on the one hand can do all things through Christ which is head and body and on the other hand we can do nothing without Him. These courses and your efforts to help people is very much like taking a journey together. How it works is that when you meet someone in need and try to help you are either on your own or you take the body with you. If you think about it you have a much better chance of helping others if you take the body with you. It is true for all of us. 

In this journey together we are going to be setting some learning and teaching goals. The reason I say learning and teaching as you are learning this minute but as you go along in your ministry you will be teaching those in need to set goals as you will be doing, using key concepts and principles and then analyzing whether it is working or not and making adjustments along the way. What does that mean in real terms? Basically learning to stand on His word both written in scripture logos, and His spoken word to you, rhema. When we learn how to stand on what He has given us we become the light for others to see, so they can see the path. However if we never stand one what we have been given or stand on what we understand and try to tell others to they will see us a phony and instead of leading someone closer to God we actually end up pushing them away. 

What you will find in the studies is His word and if you are open to His voice He will be speaking to you. the next step is to put these concepts that He has given to us, His bride, Hid body that we will be able to walk in His light and power and be able to help others as we do some self examination along the way. It is at that point you will be able to use the information not just in data or knowledge but in application to everyday life with wisdom. The point in helping others is not to quote scripture at them but share with them the wisdom you have gained as you have walked in the light yourself.

What I will need you to do so we can help you along the way is to tell me when or if you do not get it! I promise you that no one will make fun of you. We all have to go through this so we know down deep inside the truth. This is really an new beginning for many of you and a different way to look at things. Some may be wondering if we all have to go through everything that there is to go through? The answer is no if we are connected to the body as others in the body have experienced things that you have not, however it is in your relationship with others in the body that will help you become established in your ministry as you can draw from their experiences as well as your own. This is what makes teaching and more importantly learning fun and I encourage you to share the experience with others. You will be blessed.