OVERVIEW

PCA uses The Notebook Method®—Research, Reason, Relate, and Record where all leaders, teachers and students keep a permanent written record of their findings. We imitate John Quincy Adams in following this method. In a letter to his father, young Adams wrote these closing words: “P.S. –Sir if you will be so good as to favor me with a blank-book. I will transcribe the most remarkable occurrences I meet with in my reading which will serve to fix them upon my mind.” (History of the Life, Administration and Times of John Quincy Adams, Sixth President of the United States, by John Robert Ireland, 1887, page 16).

“And the Lord answered me, and said, ‘Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.’”
(Habakkuk 2:2)

“Thus, speaketh the Lord God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book.”
(Jeremiah 30:2)

SEVEN BIBLICAL PRINCIPLES

THE BASIS OF THE NOTEBOOK METHOD®

God’s Principle of Individuality—God created Adam as an individual (Genesis 1:26-28)

The Christian Principle of Self-Government—Jesus and the temptation in Luke 4:1-13 shows personal “self-government”.

America’s Heritage of Christian Character—people like the Pilgrims, John and Abigail Adams, John Hancock, George Washington, Samuel Adams, James Madison, and many other Founding Fathers

“Conscience is the Most Sacred of all Property”—Internal unity must of necessity precede external union.

The Christian Form of our Government—Declaration of Independence and United States Constitution

How the Seed of Local Self-Government is Planted—America's founding story from 1607 to 1788

The Christian Principle of American Political Union—Recorded from original documents preserved by letters and correspondence of our Founding Fathers era.