Doctrinal Mastery Review 18
Apply Doctrinal Mastery Passages
One of the purposes of doctrinal mastery is to help you learn how to apply the doctrine taught in the doctrinal mastery passages to real-life situations. This lesson will give you opportunities to practice applying some of the New Testament doctrinal mastery passages to your life.
Doctrinal mastery passages
Imagine 150 of the world’s best athletes trying out to be the goalkeeper on an elite soccer team. Can you imagine how difficult it would be for the coaches to select just one athlete?
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What criteria do you think the coaches might use to narrow down who is chosen?
The New Testament contains almost 8,000 verses. Only 53 of these verses (about 1 out of every 150 verses) are included within the 24 New Testament doctrinal mastery passages. Imagine the challenge of selecting which passages out of the entire New Testament should be studied as doctrinal mastery passages.
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If you were asked to help select doctrinal mastery passages, what criteria would you use to determine which passages you chose?
Choose two of the following doctrinal mastery passages that you may not be as familiar with. Read the entire passage in your scriptures, and determine reasons you think those passages may have been chosen as doctrinal mastery passages for youth around the world to focus on.
New Testament Doctrinal Mastery: 1 Corinthians–Revelation
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Scripture Reference |
Key Scripture Phrase |
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Scripture Reference | Key Scripture Phrase “Your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost.” |
Scripture Reference | Key Scripture Phrase “Neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.” |
Scripture Reference | Key Scripture Phrase “As in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.” |
Scripture Reference | Key Scripture Phrase In the Resurrection, there are three degrees of glory. |
Scripture Reference | Key Scripture Phrase “In the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ.” |
Scripture Reference | Key Scripture Phrase The Church is “built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone.” |
Scripture Reference | Key Scripture Phrase “The day of Christ … shall not come, except there come a falling away first.” |
Scripture Reference | Key Scripture Phrase “The holy scriptures … are able to make thee wise unto salvation.” |
Scripture Reference | Key Scripture Phrase Heavenly Father is “the Father of spirits.” |
Scripture Reference | Key Scripture Phrase “If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God.” |
Scripture Reference | Key Scripture Phrase “Faith, if it hath not works, is dead.” |
Scripture Reference | Key Scripture Phrase “The gospel [was] preached also to them that are dead.” |
Scripture Reference | Key Scripture Phrase “And the dead were judged … according to their works.” |
Your relationship with God
One reason doctrinal mastery passages were selected is because they contain truths that can strengthen your relationship with Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ.
1. Answer the following questions in your study journal.
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What is one doctrinal mastery passage that has helped you to strengthen your relationship with Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ? How has it helped you?
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What truths do you learn about Them from this passage?
Applying passages
One of the purposes of doctrinal mastery is to help you apply truths found in the doctrinal mastery passages to situations you face in your life now and in the future. For example, the doctrine taught in 1 Peter 4:6 that the gospel is preached to the dead in the spirit world could help comfort a friend who has lost a loved one or could encourage you to do temple and family history work for your ancestors.
Present-day application
2. Answer the following questions in your study journal.
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What is a real situation youth face today that could be addressed by one of the doctrinal mastery passages listed on the chart? You could write about your own circumstances, the circumstances of someone you know, or the circumstances of youth in general.
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Which of these doctrinal mastery passages best applies to the situation you wrote about? How do truths in that passage apply to the situation?
Future application
3. Answer the following questions in your study journal:
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What is a situation you could experience when you are older in which one of the doctrinal mastery passages could help you or guide you?
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Which of these doctrinal mastery passages best applies to that situation? How do truths in that passage apply to the situation?