1. Freshman class – Foundation of SDA Fundamentals
2. Intermediate Class – Knowledge and Foundation on the Present Truth
3. Senior Class – Special Instructions for Fieldwork
Number 1. The purpose of each class;
a. Freshman class designed for those who need to gain a foundation of fundamental Seventh-day Adventist doctrines. For those who need it or may wish to take it as a refresher course.
b. Intermediate class for those who need to learn the Davidian doctrines and how to present them.
c. Senior class for those who already know the message, but who need special Instructions for fieldwork, ect. It is also for those who require help only in organizing and giving studies and who are assigned to intermediate class for a few weeks to learn this phase after which they will be transferred to the senior class. For this reason the senior class will start at a later date than _________.
Number 2. It is important that each student keep his notebook up to date. The instructor is to check on this daily when the roll call is taken.
Number 3. Class periods are for students' recitation and the teacher's constructive criticism and are not to be taken up in lecturing to the students; studying is to be done outside of class. Students are not to be told ahead who is to recite at the next class period.
Number 4. The instructor is to correct the students on the following:
a. Form
b. Continuity
c. Clarity
d. Keeping on the subject
e. Delivery
f. Tact
Number 5. Except as indicated in no. 6, the material in the Davidian publications the message of the hour-is what is to be studied and used. Various supplementary helps may be good but are unnecessary. (A list of the Spirit of Prophecy books most quoted is present Truth Literature is giving in Part 3. If the present truth student becomes volumes he will be well armed.)
Number 6. Following is a list of chapters from the Bible Reading to be covered in the Freshman Class. The students are to study and be prepared for either oral or written quizzes in class an the instructor shall choose. In assigning the material listed below it may not be necessary to take up every topic or question in the chapters listed, at least not in class, but only as much as will assure a thorough understanding of the subject under discussion. Those Seventh-day Adventist doctrines which have been especially amplified by present truth, and which are therefore included in the Intermediate class, have been omitted from the Freshman Class. (However, when such subjects are studied in the Intermediate Class, if a student is not familiar with Seventh-day Adventist teaching of them, he might profitably study them from Bible readings in connection with present truth, so that he might know wherein the Davidian message differs from Seventh-day Adventist teachings as well as to acquire a foundation in fundamental Seventh-day Adventist doctrines. The Instructor should be prepare to point out to the students what is erroneous and why.)
First Week’s Study Outlines
Day 1: The Bible: Its Origin and Place in the World {BRH pp. 13-46}
Bible Correspondence #1
Day 2: Sin: Its origin, Results and Remedy {BRH pp. 47-82}
Bible Correspondence #2
Day 3: The Way to Christ {BRH pp. 83-142}
Bible Correspondence #3
Day 4: Life, Parables, and Miracles of Christ {BRH pp. 143-180}
Bible Correspondence #4
Day 5: The Holy Spirit {BRH pp. 181-200}
Bible Correspondence #5
Second Week’s Study Outlines
Day6: The Law of God {BRH pp. 369-414}
Bible Correspondence #6
Day 7: The Sabbath {BRH pp. 415-463}
Bible Correspondence #7
Day 8: Christian Liberty {BRH 471-498}
Bible Correspondence #8
Day 9: Life Only in Christ {BRH pp. 499-540}
Bible Correspondence #9
Day 10: Christian Growth Experience Part 1 {BRH pp. 541-571}
Bible Correspondence #10
Third Week’s Study Outlines
Day 11: Christian growth and Experience Part 2 {BRH pp. 573-602}
Bible Correspondence #11
Day 12: Prayer and Public Worship {BRH pp. 603-628}
Bible Correspondence #12
Day 13: Christian Service {BRH pp. 629-668}
Bible Correspondence #13
Day 14: Admonitions and Warnings {BRH pp 669-704}
Bible Correspondence #14
Day 15: The Home {BRH pp. 705-738}
Bible Correspondence #15
Fourth Week’s Study Outlines
Day 16: Health and Temperance {BRH pp. 739-758}
Bible Correspondence #16
Day 17: The Sure Word of Prophecy Part 1 {BRH pp. 201-253}
Bible Correspondence #17
Day 18: The Sure Word of Prophecy Part 2 {BRH pp. 254-283}
Bible Correspondence #18
Day 19: The Sure Word of Prophecy Part 3 {BRH pp. 284-310}
Bible Correspondence #19
Day 20: Coming Events and Signs of the Times {BRH pp. 311-368}
Bible Correspondence #20
Day 21: the Kingdom restored {BRH pp. 759-790}
Text: The 28 Fundamental Beliefs of SDA, SOP and SRod
Doctrines for the Study:
1. Religion
2. Inspiration
3. Revival and Reformation and Purification
4. New Light Promised: Need of Personal Investigation
5. The Message to the Laodiceans
6. The Shepherd’s Rod in Prophecy
7. The Controversy Over the Shepherd’s Rod
8. Mt. Carmel – It’s Purpose
9. Elijah
10. Eleventh-Hour Call
11. The Layman’s Movement (Hosea 1 and 2
12. The 144,000 and the Great Multitude
13. The Latter Rain and Second Pentecost
14. The Judgment and the Harvest
15. The Seven Seals (The Signs of the Times)
16. The Seven Trumpets
17. The Everlasting Church (Revelation 12)
18. The World’s History in Prophetic Symbols
19. Nahum’s Prophecy
20. The Kingdom
21. The Time of Trouble
22. The Resurrections
23. The Millennium
24. The Revelation
25. Righteousness By Faith, Sanctification, etc.
26. The Temple Type
27. Ezekiel’s River
28. The Flood – A Type
29. The Three Days and Three Nights
30. Baptism
31. Sabbath Questions
32. Marriage and the Home
33. Education
34. Health
35. Money Matters
36. Military Service
37. Standards and Worldly Customs
38. Disfellowship in the Church (Certificate of Fellowship)
39. Qualifications of Workers
40. Summary of Fundamental Beliefs
The Investigative Judgment for the Dead and the Living
1. The Sanctuary Doctrine
2. The 1888 Message
3. Theocratic Government, Theocracy: The Pre Millennial Kingdom
4. The Mode of Inspiration – Gift of Prophecy
5. Additional Beliefs in the Present time
6. Revival and Reformation: Health Reform
7. Purification of the Church (Ezek. 9, Rev. 7, Isa. 66:15-17
Text: All SOP, SRod literatures, Mt. Carmel Training Center pages 10-18
MINISTERIAL CURRICULUM
Vocational
Spirit of Prophecy
Prophetic Eschatology
Revealed Philosophy
Revealed Psychophysics
Revealed Sociology
Revealed History
Sacred Poetry and Song
Homiletics
Christian English
The Student's Pledge
MINISTERIAL CURRICULUM
Vocational
The manual phase of the student's training. It is gained through daily pursuit of one or more of the institution's various employments. Both in theory and in practice, right methods and procedures are constantly inculcated for right results. Efficiency is stressed as the result of energetic application and concentration, carefulness, thoroughness, speed, and proficiency. The irrepressible desire for some greater good, the indomitable will to success, the strenuous exertion, the untiring perseverance are cultivated as the elements of character which make a man successful and honored among men, and which will win for him the highest of all promotions and commendations,
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"Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy Lord." Matt. 25:21. Work is thus dignified and restored to its original primacy in the redemptive processes.
Therefore the basic and most potent factor of discipline and growth in the student's training experience (as well as the means of his livelihood), it is accordingly exploited as the most productive source and means of symmetrical character development.
Spirit of Prophecy
A perspective study of the prophetic gift, its vital place and purpose in the church, past, present, and future. Special attention is directed to its climactic manifestation, work, and fruits.
Prophetic Eschatology
An intensive study of end-conditions and end-events as revealed in correlative and convergent lines of prophetic testimony, parable, ceremony, and number. Predominant emphasis is upon their pragmatic integration in the believer's credenda.
Revealed Philosophy
A strictly non-speculative inquiry into the divine scheme of things, into the Absolute and Its unities. Approach is made objectively in the light of revealed knowledge. The aim is progressive elevation and
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enlargement of the soul's horizons, and its consequent activation on the divine plane of living, as the only truly good and more abundant life -- that which is measured by the life of God. Accordingly, its primary foci of exploration are the immensity and diversity of the love of God.
Revealed Psychophysics
A Scriptural study of the great psychophysical laws governing the physical, mental, and moral balance of true Christian growth. This threefold development and integration of the personality is carefully viewed in its consummate embodiment in the man, Jesus. The ideal of the Christ poise and power is assiduously inculcated and pursued. Animated application is keynoted.
Revealed Sociology
An examination of the true social structure (the Edenic man, in his Edenic home in the Edenic school, in the Edenic state -- the kingdom of the first dominion), the causes of its fall, and the conditions of its restoration. Most intensive study is devoted to the third phase of the course -- to the social reforms involved in the regeneration, and in the transformation into the Kingdom of God, of the individual, the family, the school, and the church among those elements of society which elect to identify themselves with the divine purpose.
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Revealed History
A survey of history from the divine point of view. Causes underlying the rise and fall of empires and nations from creation to the present are incisively traced. Types and cycles are especially noticed. Main attention is fixed on the agencies of the all-merciful Providence silently, patiently working out the counsels of His own will behind, above, and through all the vast play and counter play of human interests and power and passions. Final focus is upon the climactic scene in the drama -- the restoration of the Kingdom of God in the light of the great lessons brought to view.
Sacred Poetry and Song
An excavation into the poetic veins of revealed truth. The course includes a brief non-technical study of the form and the kinds of poetry in the Bible, while chief concern is with the spiritual esthetic of the sacred poems and songs.
Homiletics
A study of the art and science of effective composition and delivery of Scriptural discourses. Ministerial ideals are woven in throughout the course. The spiritual element is held aloft as the most important in all stages of the discourse. Varied opportunity is given for delivery.
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Christian English
Remedial drill in the fundamentals of grammar, sentence and paragraph structure, punctuation, and oral and written composition. Constant emphasis is upon language study from the higher point of view, that it "be always with grace, seasoned with salt," "the outward expression of an inward grace."
The Student's Pledge
As Christian students in Filipinos, devoted to God, and consequently loyal to the just principles of this free "government under God," we pledge our hearts, our minds, our hands, our all, first to the [flag] of God's eternal kingdom, and to the Theocracy for which it stands, one people made up of all nations, and bound by
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the cords of everlasting love, liberty, purity justice, peace, happiness, light and life for all, and second "to the [flag] of the Philippines, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible with liberty and justice for all."
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Additional Topics:
1. The Sanctuary Doctrine
2. The 1888 Message
3. Theocratic Government, Theocracy: The Pre Millennial Kingdom
4. The Mode of Inspiration – Gift of Prophecy
5. Additional Beliefs in the Present time
6. Revival and Reformation: Health Reform
7. Purification of the Church (Ezek. 9, Rev. 7, Isa. 66:15-17
8. History and Prophetic Endowments, Test of a True Prophet
9. How to Face Controversial Issues
10. Ministerial Methods and Strategies
11. Biblical Hermeneutics and Homiletics
12. Advanced Biblical Studies and Interpretation
13. Executive Administration of the Association
14. Organizational Structure and Guidelines
Number 7. Keep on the Subject.
It is impossible to divorce some present Truth subject from others and therefore there is much overlapping of material. In studying one particular subject it is often necessary to refer to another; however, when such is the case, it is important to stick with what the text material says on the subject being studied. The related doctrines will each be studied in detail in the turn.
Example:
Subject: Religion
Text Material: Timely Greetings, Vol. 2 #34
(In the studying this article it would be easy to get into a discussion of the Kingdom but that is not the subject being studied.)
--Educational Director