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--- en:operating_principles:dtm:publishing_church_growth_model:biblical_origins [2026/03/16 07:50] – [On Our Hearts and Bodies] jpauldietrich
+++ en:operating_principles:dtm:publishing_church_growth_model:biblical_origins [2026/05/21 02:11] (current) – [1. Conversion] jpauldietrich
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 When God gives a message and commands that it be written down, it shows that the message is important and not to be forgotten. The writer may write with authority, knowing that God is the Source of his message. The writer must not write something different than what God has said.
+God first spoke the Ten Commandments and then wrote them down. Combining the spoken word and the written word is a Divine idea. See [[preacher_paper_duo|Preacher-Paper Duo]].
   * After writing the Ten Commandments in stone with His own finger, God instructed Moses to write laws in more detail.
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 God's law was to be written where it would not be forgotten:
-  * **On the hand and forehead** — "You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes." (Deuteronomy 6:8)
+|**On the hand and forehead**|"You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes." (Deuteronomy 6:8)|
-  * On the doorposts and gates (Deuteronomy 6:9; 11:20)
+|**On the doorposts and gates**|"You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates." (Deuteronomy 6:9; 11:20)|
-  * On the tablet of your heart (Proverbs 3:3)
+|**On the tablet of your heart**|"Let not mercy and truth forsake you; Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart," (Proverbs 3:3)|
-  * Bind them on your fingers and on the tablet of your heart. (Proverbs 7:3)
+|**Bind them on your fingers and on the tablet of your heart.**|"Keep my commands and live, And my law as the apple of your eye. Bind them on your fingers; Write them on the tablet of your heart." (Proverbs 7:2-3)|
-  * God promises to write His law in our hearts. (Jeremiah 31:33)
+|**God promises to write His law in our hearts.**|"But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people." (Jeremiah 31:33)|
-  * God promises to write His law in our minds and hearts. (Hebrews 8:10)
+|**God promises to write His law in our minds and hearts.**|"For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people." (Hebrews 8:10)|
-  * God promises to put His law in our hearts and write it on our minds. (Hebrews 10:16)
+|**God promises to put His law in our hearts and write it on our minds.**|"This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them," (Hebrews 10:16)|
 "You are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read by all men; clearly you are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart." (2 Corinthians 3:2-3)
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 ==== For New Kings ====
-New kings were instructed to write a copy of the law themselves — no copy and paste, and no printer. (Deuteronomy 17:18) By copying the law with their own hand, they were forced to become familiar with the law. As much as possible, we should also be familiar with what we print and practice what we learn in our lives.
+New kings were instructed to write a copy of the law themselves — no copy and paste, and no printer. (Deuteronomy 17:18) By copying the law with their own hand, they were forced to become familiar with the law.
+As much as possible, we should also be familiar with what we print and practice what we learn in our lives.
 ==== Memorial Stones ====
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 ===== Why Written? The Purposes of Publishing =====
-  * **So you may believe** — "These things were written so that you may believe and have eternal life." (John 20:31)
+Publishing is an essential tool in God's plan. As you study the points below, think about what we might miss if we neglect the publishing work.
-  * **For our admonition** — "These things were written for our admonition." (1 Corinthians 10:11)
+==== 1. Conversion ====
-  * **For edification** — "I write these things for your edification." (2 Corinthians 13:10)
-  * **To reveal Christ** — Revelation revealed in writing (Ephesians 3:3) so that when you read, you may understand the mystery of Christ. (Ephesians 3:4)
-  * **To guide conduct** — So that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God. (1 Timothy 3:15)
-  * **So that your joy may be full** (1 John 1:4)
-  * **So that you do not sin** (1 John 2:1)
-  * **Because your sins are forgiven** (1 John 2:12)
-  * **Because you have known the Father** (1 John 2:13-14)
-  * **Because you are strong, the Word of God abides in you, and you have overcome** (1 John 2:14)
-  * **Because you know the truth** (1 John 2:21)
-  * **That you may know that you have eternal life** (1 John 5:13)
-"The word of our God shall stand forever. All His commandments are sure. They stand fast for ever and ever, and are done in truth and uprightness... Whatever is built upon the authority of man will be overthrown; but that which is founded upon the rock of God's immutable word shall stand forever." GC 288.3
+  * "These things were **written** that you may **believe** that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have **life** in His name." (John 20:31)
+The progression is simple, but profound. Things that are written (publications) lead to belief, and belief leads to eternal life.
+Things written -> believe -> life
+What if there are no things written, or if the things written are not reproduced so that they may be read?
+==== 2. Instruction ====
+  * "Now all these things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come." (1 Corinthians 10:11)
+  * "For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope." (Romans 15:4)
+==== 3. Edification ====
+  * "Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the authority which the Lord has given me for edification and not for destruction." (2 Corinthians 13:10)
+==== 4. Clarity of truth ====
+  * "How that by revelation He made known to me the mystery (as I have briefly written already), by which, when you read, you may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ." (Ephesians 3:3–4)
+  * "It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write to you an orderly account... that you may know the certainty of those things in which you were instructed." (Luke 1:3–4)
+==== 5. Preservation ====
+  * "Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and note it on a scroll, that it may be for time to come, forever and ever." (Isaiah 30:8)
+  * "Take a scroll of a book and write on it all the words that I have spoken to you." (Jeremiah 36:2)
+==== 6. Public proclamation ====
+  * "Write the vision and make it plain on tablets, that he may run who reads it." (Habakkuk 2:2)
+  * "Take a scroll of a book and read from it the words of the Lord in the hearing of the people." (Jeremiah 36:6)
+  * "Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy." (Revelation 1:3)
+  * "Write the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which will take place after this." (Revelation 1:19)
+==== 7. Warning and protection ====
+  * "My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." (1 John 2:1)
+  * "These things I have written to you concerning those who try to deceive you." (1 John 2:26)
+  * "And I wrote this very thing to you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow over those from whom I ought to have joy." (2 Corinthians 2:3–4)
+==== 8. Assurance ====
+  * "And these things we write to you that your joy may be full." (1 John 1:4)
+  * "I write to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for His name’s sake." (1 John 2:12)
+  * "I write to you, fathers, because you have known Him who is from the beginning. I write to you, little children, because you have known the Father." (1 John 2:13)
+  * "I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the wicked one." (1 John 2:14)
+  * "I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and that no lie is of the truth." (1 John 2:21)
+  * "These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life." (1 John 5:13)
+==== 9. Testimony and witness ====
+  * "Now therefore, write this song for yourselves, and teach it to the children of Israel… that this song may be a witness for Me." (Deuteronomy 31:19)
+  * "Beloved, I now write to you this second epistle… that you may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets." (2 Peter 3:1–2)
+> “The word of our God shall stand forever.” “All His commandments are sure. They stand fast for ever and ever, and are done in truth and uprightness.” Isaiah 40:8; Psalm 111:7, 8. Whatever is built upon the authority of man will be overthrown; but that which is founded upon the rock of God’s immutable word shall stand forever. [[https://egwwritings.org/read?panels=p132.1317(132.1319)&index=0#highlight=132.1319,0:132.1319,327|GC 288]]
 ===== Standards for Publishing =====
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   * A curse for anyone who adds to God's Word. (Revelation 22:18)
   * A curse for taking away from God's Word. (Revelation 22:19)
-  * All the words which the Lord had spoken were written on the two tablets of stone. (Deuteronomy 9:10)
+  * **All** the words which the Lord had spoken were written on the two tablets of stone. (Deuteronomy 9:10)
-  * They were instructed to write "all the words of this law" on whitewashed stones. (Deuteronomy 27:8)
+  * They were instructed to write "**all** the words of this law" on whitewashed stones. (Deuteronomy 27:8)
 ==== Blessings for the Obedient Reader ====
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 ==== Curses for the Disobedient ====
-There are curses in disobeying what is written. Curses might seem offensive to some people, but they were faithfully recorded in the Bible alongside the blessings — as a warning, so that when a group of people receive the curses, it would be understood that they had been clearly forewarned but had chosen to disobey. (Deuteronomy 29:20, 27)
+  * There are curses in disobeying what is written.
+  * Curses might seem offensive to some people, but they were faithfully recorded in the Bible alongside the blessings — as a warning, so that when a group of people receive the curses, it would be understood that they had been clearly forewarned but had chosen to disobey. (Deuteronomy 29:20, 27)
 ==== Consequences of Writing Evil ====
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 Moses wrote a copy of the law and distributed it to various people before his death. (Deuteronomy 31:9)
+==== Schools of the Prophets ====
+>  In both the school and the home much of the teaching was oral; but the youth also learned to **read the Hebrew writings**, and the **parchment rolls** of the Old Testament Scriptures were open to their study. The chief subjects of study in these schools were the law of God, with the instruction given to Moses, sacred history, sacred music, and poetry. In the **records of sacred history were traced** the footsteps of Jehovah. The great truths set forth by the types in the service of the sanctuary were brought to view, and faith grasped the central object of all that system—the Lamb of God, that was to take away the sin of the world. A spirit of devotion was cherished. Not only were the students taught the duty of prayer, but they were taught how to pray, how to approach their Creator, how to exercise faith in Him, and how to understand and obey the teachings of His Spirit. Sanctified intellect brought forth from the treasure house of God things new and old, and the Spirit of God was manifested in **prophecy and sacred song**.
+> These schools proved to be one of the means most effective in promoting that righteousness which “exalteth a nation.” Proverbs 14:34. In no small degree they aided in laying the foundation of that marvelous prosperity which distinguished the reigns of David and Solomon. (Ed 47)
 ==== Apostolic Letters and Tracts ====