This course makes sense out of church history. No dry and boring chronicles found here. Instead, I was amazed and inspired by fascinating tales of true followers of Christ.

It is interesting how we say that America is a christian nation and was founded by christian men but when we look at their lives we would have a hard time saying that they were christians.

The information on the modern atheistic state of Israel and the faulty reasoning of dispensationalist Christians was profound and powerful! I believe that the dispensationalist love for the modern state of Israel and its founding by pressure from dispensationalist, is one of the main things which eventually militarized modern Islam and which keeps many Muslims from coming to faith. Dispensationalist have made acceptance of the modern state of Israel part of the gospel, which it is NOT! Dispensationalist are so blind in their idolatry of Israel that they are willing to excuse any crime or injustice practiced by Israel even when it is against other Christians in Palestine and Lebanon.

I think the biggest takeaway for me from this course was the necessity of being “all in.” While the Campbell letter had a different approach, for me the lesson still had to do with commitment to Christ – in counting as brethren those who have confessed Christ and bear fruit of striving to follow Him.
My family currently lives in a situation with a number of people involved in professional ministry and I have honestly struggled on both of these issues. One, in discerning where differences in walking out the Word are actually issues that should divide, and where I am being pharisaical…but also in a desire to be “all in” being negatively influenced by the prevalent example and outright preaching around me of “abundant life” and “don’t negate God’s grace with your striving.”
All of that to say, this was a timely reminder for me. I appreciate the great amount of work Brother Bercot (and the other men) have put into these lessons.