Good Decision-Making & Knowledge

 

 

Study Guide

The answers to the following questions can be found in the part 1 and 2 of the 'Good Decision-making and Knowledge' series.

 Good Decision-making and Knowledge
 Good Decision-making and Action

1.     Name the two essential elements to making wise decisions? Why are they both important? Are there other things that are also essential to making the best decisions possible?

2.     What are the three areas of knowledge that are mentioned in this article? Are there other areas?

3.     Define experiential knowledge. How has your own knowledge been shaped over the years? Where is your personal knowledge considered weak? Strong?

4.     Why are the chief limits of relying solely on experiential knowledge to make the best decisions?

5.     Why does modernism so strongly focus on experiential knowledge?

6.     How much study of the past have you involved yourself in? Again, what are your strong and weak areas? Do they help you in your decision-making? How so?

7.     What are the limits of historical knowledge?

8.     Name one example that revisionism has negatively affected or tried to influence you in your life decisions.

9.     Define spiritual knowledge.

10.  Where does spiritual knowledge come from?

11.  Is spiritual knowledge common or rare? Easy to find or hard to discover?

12.  How much spiritual knowledge do you rely upon in your decision-making? Please give an example.

13.  Can one rely too much on spiritual knowledge? If so, explain?

14.  Write in your own words why ‘Action’ is as important as ‘Knowledge’ in making decisions.

15.  Explain Proverbs 26:11 through modern illustrations and language.

16.  How is discipline related to ‘Action?’

17.  Why does anyone need to be admonished to ‘take heed’ to do the things written (see Rev. 1:3)? Do we regularly know the right thing to do but do not take consistent action?

18.  Summarize how all three areas of knowledge are to interrelate to each other so that we can make best life decisions possible.

19.  Reflect upon your own life and find one or two areas that you have knowledge but do not consistently apply it to your own life. Why is it important to be consistently carrying out those things? Write out a plan on how you will by tomorrow begin consistently make wise decisions in that one or two areas.