BT1210 Week 1

Lecture 1
For Class (completed before starting this lecture; 41 pages ≈ 77 min.):

Read Syllabus.

Read Perkins, Reformed Covenant Theology (RCT): Preface (pp. xvii-xx).

Read Colquhoun (Col-hoon), The Law and the Gospel (L&G): Introduction (pp. 5-7).

Read RCT: Ch.1: Meeting God in the Covenants (pp. 1-15).

Read assigned Westminster Standards (WCF 7, WLC 20-22, 30-36, WSC 12, 16, and 20).
Lecture Topics (covered during class):

Course Introduction:
a. Syllabus review (be sure to be prepared to ask questions).
1) CourseObjectives.
2) Course Goal: learning how to read the Bible the way Jesus does. 

Covenant Ordered Everything.
a. Is the Bible structured by a covenant principle?
b. Is it just the Bible that is so structured?

RCT, Preface:
a. Purpose and structure of book.
b. Integrated reading approach.

L&G, Introduction:
a. Purpose of the treatise.
b. Importance of this purpose. c. Structure of the argument.

RCT, Ch. 1: introduction to covenants. a. Ps 25:14.
b. Covenants: what, how, why.
c. Westminster Standards on covenants. d. Covenants overview:

Two key takeaways.

Covenants Chart.