Understanding the Bible is essentially not different from how we understand things in everyday life. This lesson uses the example of making a cake to teach the basics of understanding authority: statements, examples, inferences, and the importance of respecting silence. (Original lesson by Steve Calvert!)

1. How to
Make a
Cake

5. How do we understand
what God wants us
to know and do?

6. How we understand
the Bible is essentially
the same as how we
follow direction in
everyday life.

9. How to
Make a
Cake the
DUNCAN
HINES
Way

19. “Go therefore and make disciples
of all nations, baptizing them in
the name of the Father and of the
Son and of the Holy Spirit,
teaching them to observe all that
I have commanded you.”
—Matthew 28.19-20

20. “Go therefore and make disciples
of all nations, baptizing them in
the name of the Father and of the
Son and of the Holy Spirit,
teaching them to observe all that
I have commanded you.”
—Matthew 28.19-20

21. “Go therefore and make disciples
of all nations, baptizing them in
the name of the Father and of the
Son and of the Holy Spirit,
teaching them to observe all that
I have commanded you.”
—Matthew 28.19-20

22. “Go therefore and make disciples
of all nations, baptizing them in
the name of the Father and of the
Son and of the Holy Spirit,
teaching them to observe all that
I have commanded you.”
—Matthew 28.19-20

23. “Go therefore and make disciples
of all nations, baptizing them in
the name of the Father and of the
Son and of the Holy Spirit,
teaching them to observe all that
I have commanded you.”
—Matthew 28.19-20

26. What are
these?

29. “Go therefore and make disciples
of all nations, baptizing them in
the name of the Father and of the
Son and of the Holy Spirit,
teaching them to observe all that
I have commanded you.”
—Matthew 28.19-20

37. “Go therefore and make disciples
of all nations, baptizing them in
the name of the Father and of the
Son and of the Holy Spirit,
teaching them to observe all that
I have commanded you.”
—Matthew 28.19-20

39. Respecting
Silence

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53. The secret things belong to Jehovah
our God, but the things that are
revealed belong to us and to our
children forever, that we may do all
the words of this law.
—Deuteronomy 29.29

54. “Go therefore and make disciples
of all nations, baptizing them in
the name of the Father and of the
Son and of the Holy Spirit,
teaching them to observe all that
I have commanded you.”
—Matthew 28.19-20

56. How do we understand
what God wants us
to know and do?

57. Examples Inferences
Silence
Statements
“Go”

59. Compiled and Presented by:
Fellowship with God Dave Stewart
Bible 12 April, 2009
Las Cruces, NM
#05 www.churchofchristmiranda.com
How To Make a Cake
Synopsis: Understanding the Bible is essentially not different from how
we understand things in everyday life. This lesson uses the example of
making a cake to teach the basics of understanding authority: statements,
examples, inferences, and the importance of respecting silence. (Original
lesson by Steve Calvert!)
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