When I decided to make a site like this, I wanted to choose a name for it that would reflect the content to be posted here. While I was considering different options, someone suggested Plain Bible Teaching. Right away I knew it was the right name.
Why Plain Bible Teaching?
Anyone who teaches about spiritual things has a divine obligation to “speak as the oracles of God” (1 Peter 4:11). God wants us to understand His will (Ephesians 5:17) and has revealed it to us in His word in a way that we can understand it (Ephesians 3:4). I realize that my decision to teach the word of God to others requires me to teach it in a way that is simple and easily understood.
Not only are our words to be plain, but they must be from the word of God. There is no place in our teaching for the commands and traditions of men. There is also no permission for us to leave out certain parts of God’s word because we believe they are difficult, offensive, or out of date. We must simply teach “the whole counsel of God” (Acts 20:27).
Therefore, my goal for this site from the beginning has been to post materials that could be described as plain Bible teaching. So that is the name I decided to use.
History of this Website
Plain Bible Teaching began as a monthly online publication. The first issue was published here in August 2005. Most issues contained four articles that I had written. Occasionally I would post an article that someone else had written. These issues continued each month through June 2009.
At the end of 2006 I decided to add a blog to the site. In January 2007 I began posting short articles that were in addition to the regular articles at the first of the month. I started the blog using the free service Blogger. In January 2009 I moved the blog to my web host that was already hosting the main site. While they were on the same server, at this point the blog and the main site were still separate from one another.
In June 2009 I decided to combine the blog and the main site, end the monthly issues, and simply operate this as a blog site. So I transferred all the articles, built a new layout, and relaunched the new and improved Plain Bible Teaching website.
So this is where we are today. Thanks for visiting. I hope you find the material on this site to be useful to you. If you haven’t already, be sure to subscribe to receive updates when there is new content that has been added.
About Me
My name is Andy Sochor. I live in Bowling Green, KY with my wife and four kids. I preach for the Eastside church of Christ in Morgantown, KY, while also working a secular job as a graphic designer at a sign shop in Bowling Green.
I have recently published my first book — The Root of the Problem: Why We Sin & How We Can Overcome. You can follow that link if you’d like to check it out. I also operate DIY Sermon Outlines, which is a site that contains brief sermon outlines that you may use as a starting point or to help generate ideas for one of your sermons, short talks, articles, etc.
I also have a blog where I write about various topics. If you’d like, you can find it here.
