SS - Class 1: What Is the Will of God

I. Why Decision-Making Matters

II. Common Approaches to Decision-Making Among Unbelievers

III. What is God's Will?

    A. Dimensions of God's Will

        1. God's Moral Will -- Will of Precept

        2. God's Sovereign Will -- Will of Decree

        3. Erroneous "third" will: God's inidividual will for your life.

            a. What it is

            b. How people look for it

            c. Why people look for it

IV. Paradigm for Decision-Making: "The Way of Wisdom"

    A. Where God commands, we must obey.

    B. Where there is no command, God gives us freedom (and responsibility) to choose.

    C. Where there is no command, God gives us wisdom to choose.

    D. When we have chosen what is moral and wise, we must trust the sovereign God to work all the details together for good.