What drives us at Teleios?

 What drives us at Teleios?

Welcome back to my blog. Thank you for taking time to read it.

We will soon start new series about exciting research findings from Teleios! However, before we begin this vital series I

want to review briefly what pushes us at Teleios to explore the veracity of scripture.

My wonderful wife, Jeanette, and I have had the privilege over many years to teach the scriptures to college-age

students and young adults. Interestingly, what we observed during these studies motivated us to demonstrate the

exciting practical value of scripture. Below, I summarize our observations from these fun studies. I will discuss the

research findings supporting many of the statements in subsequent blogs.

Our observations, in general!

 Young Christians almost always say they believe in the truth of scripture (yay!)

 Upon further discussion, they need to know more (we all do and therefore, we study the Bible!)

 Consequently, they usually base their decision-making upon precepts learned in: church or college groups, social

Christian settings, or from their church denomination

 Accordingly, they lack confidence in the direct knowledge of God's word

 They then do not test God’s word in their lives resulting in a failure to build confidence in His precepts

 Further, they suffer with a nagging doubt, that if they really faced a crisis, their scriptural knowledge could not

supply an answer. This crisis appears usually in two forms:

o An emotional crisis with themselves or a friend

o A conversation with a non-believer about the Gospel.

 Consequently, the temptation exists, because of their insecurities about scripture, to avoid confronting internal

or external spiritual conflicts and to simply survive within the social church setting

 And of course, there is the minority (16-20%) that want to do what they want to do, regardless of God’s Word!

It is like a security guard at the local shopping mall who might enjoy the comfortable job among the nice orderly

shoppers. However, he knows deep inside he should learn how to fight in case a crisis ever occurred at the mall, such as

armed robbers or an Islamic Jihadist attack. But he doesn’t, knowing that he could run away if a crisis ever came.

Consequently, he has no opportunity to ever gain confidence in fighting techniques or his own abilities.

So, it is with many Christians in what I call the ‘cycle of failure’ (please see figure below). They enjoy the social Christian

setting and do not learn God's word. Therefore, they really never gain confidence in their biblical knowledge.

Accordingly, they never test themselves and obtain a deep confidence in the Bible’s value for daily life.

The figure describes the ‘Cycle of Failure’ of those who do not learn or test God’s word, not building the confidence to act

based on its precepts. Consequently, they never knowing its full power.

God has granted us a sure and quality Bible text upon which we can base not only our great salvation but the guidance

for our lives! The Bible tells us to test God‘s Word to build confidence (Romans 12:2; Greek word ‘dokimazo’) and utilize

its power to live our lives with surety and maturity (Ephesians 6:17; Hebrews 5:14).

Therefore, the name of our foundation is Teleios…

Original Word: τέλειος, α, ον

Part of Speech: Adjective

Transliteration: teleios

Phonetic Spelling: (tel'-i-os)

Definition: having reached its end, complete, perfect

Usage: perfect, (a) complete in all its parts, (b) full grown, of full age, (c) specially of the completeness of

Christian character

Let us help you reach your spiritual maturity!

Thanks for reading my blog. Please join us as we explore in the next few weeks the compelling findings from Teleios’

research that demonstrates the overwhelming power of the Bible to salvation and living a fruitful life.

William C. Stewart, MD

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