Love The Truth

“The elder, To the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in the truth, and not I only, but also all who know the truth, because of the truth, which lives in us and will be with us forever” 2 John 1:1-2

In the book “The Magnificent Story,” James Bryan Smith wrote: “One of the gifts John Wesley left the church is the Quadrilateral.

The Wesleyan Quadrilateral refers to the four ways we come to know something as true:

Scripture (what the Bible teaches),

Tradition (the teaching of the church through the centuries),

Reason (our rational capacity), and,

Experience (the knowledge we have of something experientially).

If something is true it is usually beautiful and good, so, Wesley proposed that if something is true, it must also be biblically grounded, be in sync with church teaching, make sense to us rationally, and make sense in our own lives.

This is a good way to examine what we believe.

To be certain, Wesley put the greatest weight on Scripture, less weight on tradition, and even less weight on reason and experience, because we are all capable of deception (as history and our own lives have shown).

It is my intention to use the Quadrilateral when answering the question, is it true?… This is a good way to examine what we believe.

The Lord has given us truth in His Word. Praise him that He is truth and seek to follow Him in all that you do.

“Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.” – Leo Tolstoy

“Do not steal. Do not lie. Do not deceive one another.” Leviticus 19:11