Intro Basic Bible 101
She lacks home training. He is ill-mannered. They don’t have social graces. All these statements relatively mean the same. The person lacks etiquette.
Let’s search the definitions.
- Etiquette are the rules indicated for proper and polite behaviors. Or, the conduct required or prescribed by authority to be observed in social settings.
- Social graces are skills used to interact politely in social situations.
- Manners are the way a person normally behaves especially with others.
- Home training is home taught manners.
In summary, rules and behaviors conducted in public and social settings.
Generally, these skills and behaviors are learned at home and/or at school taught by parents, relatives, teachers or others experienced in the field. Details covered may include but are not limited to:
- How to think
- How to dress
- How to speak
- How to walk
- How to act in certain situations
- How to react to certain people
Basic Bible 101 teaches God Etiquette through His Word, the skills and behaviors to be performed in the world by His children. Biblical Scriptures will instruct on how to think, dress, speak, walk, and act. Also how to deal with certain people in life.
Basic Bible 101 goes back to the fundamentals of God’s teaching. Social graces are skills used to interact politely in social situations. God gives His grace—His unmerited, undeserved favor, a free gift given to us to be able to perform all things and act appropriately in all situations.
Let’s get back to basics so we can advance, because:
- God has a good plan for your life.
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. 12 Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. Jeremiah 29:11-12King James Version (KJV)
- Discover your calling.
The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling … Ephesians 1:18King James Version (KJV)
- Lastly, spend you days in prosperity and years in pleasure,
If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures. Job 36:11 (KJV)