Brian Rex Davis
Cedar Park, TX
WBS ACTION! Editor and President
Mentoring in mission has been a part of my ministry life since I was trained to be a missionary in the Project Good News Program, overseen by the Hillsboro church of Christ in Nashville, Tennessee. Great missionary veterans came from around the world to show us how to best prepare to share our faith cross-culturally.
Thinking back to earlier years, I have been mentored all of my life since choosing to follow Christ and participate in His mission. From my father, grandfather and uncles to faithful elders and Bible teachers, my maturity and effectiveness has been shaped by mentors who believed in me as a young Christian man. And though many of my mentors have passed on to be with the Lord, their investment in my life is still working its eternal influence.
Our goals for 2025 with ACTION! Magazine is to encourage Christian mentoring by:
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This episode of One More Chapter explores how to properly apply Bible study today by first determining a passage’s original meaning, purpose, principles, and precedents, then bringing those forward without imposing modern customs or values onto the Scripture.
In this episode of One More Chapter, Brian Rex Davis and his co-hosts Noah and Bryson Continue their discussion of the concepts of purpose, principle, and precedent and how they help bridge the gap between meaning and application. They classify different types of biblical precedents—such as accepting both the practice and principle of baptism, retaining principles while adapting culturally bound practices like greetings or modesty, and rejecting both when Scripture indicates—and illustrate necessary inference through Peter’s experience with Cornelius in Acts 10–11.
When Stephenie signed up on the World Bible School website to study the Bible by mail, she couldn’t have known where those lessons would lead. This summer, they led to
This episode of One More Chapter continues the series on Bible study principles for bridging the gap between a passage’s original meaning and its application today. Hosts Brian Rex Davis, Noah Davis, and Bryson Davis review “purpose” and “principle,” then focus on “precedent”, emphasizing how approved apostolic examples establish binding patterns when they carry theological significance—while incidental details do not.