Tuesday, October 31, 2017

THE DGC CD IS FINALLY HERE!

www.DailyGraceCatechism.com
    A catechism is...?
        a sardine-packed super-summary
            of all the core Christian beliefs
                in a fun Q-&-A format 
                    for teaching & learning
                        every single thing.

THE 'DAILY GRACE CATECHISM'
        is a brand new-old catechism
                disguised as a string of 26 addictive songs.

The DGC is completely free!

The DGC has all the core doctrines of Christianity
        packed down into a regular fun-sounding music album
                so that anyone can learn the whole gold mine of truth
                        without ever meaning to!

It takes the rich old catechisms of the last 400 years,
        adds some rich new questions-&-answers,
                and makes them modern, memorable and beautiful.

All your download options are here, and all are free!
    below that is the free DGC book, 
        and DGC sheet music, and Powerpoint shows, 
            and DGC in other languages, and
                more background, and stories, 
                    and DIY recording tracks,
                        and so on and on, all free!

Go to DailyGraceCatechism.com


So here's the Much Bigger Picture:

IS IT POSSIBLE
  TO DOWNLOAD INTO A HUMAN BRAIN
    ALMOST A WHOLE BIBLE DEGREE
      JUST THROUGH SONG AND ART,
        EVEN TO PEOPLE WHO DON'T/ CAN'T YET READ,

          WITH EASE, BY HEART?!?

A whole Theology Degree is made up of
Part 1. 'Systematic Theology' = ST = Theology by topics;
Part 2. 'Biblical Theology' = BT = Theology as it unfolds across the bible timeline.
Part 3. ...plus a few bits on preaching, church history, etc.

Part 1. 'Systematic Theology' = ST = Theology by topics =
...THE DAILY GRACE CATECHISM!

The DGC songs cover all the great doctrines that go into the 'Systematic Theology' part of a bible degree. There are songs that summarize the whole bible's teaching on topics like God, Scripture, Man, Sin, Law, Prophets, Jesus, Church, the Second Coming, etc.
The DGC is a complete Systematic Theology in song, by heart.

Part 2. 'Biblical Theology' = BT = Theology across bible timeline =
...THE SEVEN STREAMS OF GRACE!
The SSoG outlines 24 'milestones' to lay out a whole bible timeline, and then follows some great bible themes like Life, Rest, Rule, Blessing, Purity, and Friendship, straight through from Genesis to Revelation, showing how all the bitsy stories actually fit directly and beautifully together.
The SSoG is a complete Biblical Theology in art, by heart.

In sum,
the DGC uses 26 songs to teach Systematic Theology, whereas
the SSoG uses 100 artworks to do the teaching of Biblical Theology.
By using the musical DGC, even children and illiterate people can absorb, and then teach, a comprehensive ST education.
By using the artsy SSOG, even children and illiterate people can absorb, and then teach, a comprehensive BT education.
Of course, if you can read, both are a 'piece of cake', and you can eat so very much more!

The DGC is this page you are on now, www.DailyGraceCatechism.com.
The SSoG is just over there at www.SevenStreamsOfGrace.com

Both DGC and SSoG can stand alone.
Both can be taught at a level suitable for children, and both can be taught at a level that challenges professors. READ THAT AGAIN. These are adult programs with simplified versions for teaching children.
Both are completely free online, and the SSoG has already been translated into many languages.
Both have books for study, teaching, home-schooling, home-groups, Sunday School, uni and college, etc.
Both tend to take even veteran church and bible folks by surprise when they see afresh the sheer scale and genius of Yahweh's grace. (There's a dare for your joy...)

The DGC is a CD music album
made up of 26 songs in various musical styles
with every line sung as an echo (echo) [echo] {echo} ;-)
This means folks can sing along at full volume during their first listening
and makes the songs stick in the brain like a good broken record.

Here are the songs and many free resources:
1. Daily Grace Catechism Demo CD Streaming is here... but this is still the Demo...
2. Daily Grace Catechism Backing Tracks streaming is here... and download is here.
3. Daily Grace Catechism Chord Sheets Download is here.
4. Powerpoint slides for the lyrics, with audio, are here.
5. The Daily Grace Catechism lyrics, matched with teaching points of each, are here.
6. Daily Grace Catechism Book download is here.
The book is very huge, about 350 pages, so don't just hit 'print' without checking! It has an intro explaining how and why to learn and teach the DGC, the lyrics+teaching points mentioned in #4 above, then each lyric with each teaching point and a zillion Scripture references to test the teaching point. The whole curriculum works as a challenging detective task - the reader flame-tests and scores the teaching point against every single reference to prove whether it is 'the real deal'.  It's kind of addictive, even for teens.  Just read the intro, perhaps up to page 22, and you will have a good sense of whether to dive in.

Who How When Where Why:
A friend and I gradually created these words and songs in between over 25 years of distractions that included living in different countries. We now both live in Perth, Australia, once again. The DGC is an attempt to reveal the lush, profound, solid glory of orthodox Christian doctrine that is contained in Systematic Theology but is usually lost in its expression. We stole many lyrics from earlier centuries. I wrote others to draw out the axioms that made their work glow in their age but that cannot today be taken for granted.

What Next?
I would also like to get people of every culture to translate it and make their own voice tracks so that pastors and anyone can download the whole thing onto their phones in different languages and countries. I would also like for various people anywhere to create their own voice tracks on my free backing tracks, and/or re-record the whole thing the way they like it, and each publish their own albums, take their own DGC albums on the road for church tours, etc., so that it reaches a variety of audiences. I would also like folks to be thrilled with the theology in the songs and get deep in the Scriptures that go with them.

The reactions (tears and joy repeatedly!) of the first person to "DO THE CAT!" (= work through the DGC book), the editor, made the whole million-hour project worth doing. I would love that pleasure to be shared freely - John 17:24 reveals that this is the whole point of all things! ;-)

(My editor's comment upon reading this blog: "I so wish everyone would 'do' the Cat!" ;-)

God bless you!  AndrewOlsenMail (at) gmail.com