This article will be studied during the week of July 27th through August 2nd.

Stay spiritually strong while getting additional education.

Theme text. To the extent we have made progress, let us go on walking orderly in this same course.

Philippians 3. 16.

Song 56. Make the truth your own.

Focus. Four Bible principles that will help you stay spiritually strong if you decide to get additional education.

Paragraphs 1 and 2, question A. If you choose to get additional education, what do you need to

keep doing? Question B. What does it mean to go on walking orderly in this same course?

Some of Jehovah servants have decided to get additional education that goes beyond the basic schooling that is mandated by the state.

They may feel that such education could help them to find work that will support them in their service to Jehovah.

If you have decided to get additional education, how can you make sure that you will

remain close to Jehovah? No doubt you face tests of faith during your previous years in school.

Now, you will need to go on walking orderly in this same course, that is,

to continue serving Jehovah faithfully, just as you have already.

Philippians 3.16 reads,

At any rate, to the extent we have made progress, let us go on walking orderly in this same course.

The Greek verb used in the phrase rendered walking orderly in this same course was often used in a military sense to describe the unified marching of soldiers.

If you decide to get additional education,

you will need to keep marching forward in Jehovah service, neither standing still nor retreating.

This article will discuss four Bible principles that will help you. These principles are not new to you. You apply them in the past, and you will need to continue applying them while receiving additional education

and well after you complete your schooling. Maintain a healthy, spiritual routine.

Paragraph 3. Question. As you are getting additional education, what challenge might you

...