What can we learn from the sacrifice of Jesus about how love manifests itself? Does following Jesus come at a cost? What did Jesus give up to rescue humanity? What can we learn from Paul, Peter, John, and Matthew about what it takes to follow Jesus? How does love manifest itself in the Christian faith?
Topic: Knowing God
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What kind of attitude should Christians have toward reaching others? Does the manner in which we share truth matter? How can we demonstrate acceptance of others while at the same time we are responsible to share the truth with them? Can we love people without sharing truth?
Jesus often saw opportunities where others saw a closed and impossible door. How can we be more mission minded and have church growth eyes and ears today? Can we be guided by the Spirit to opportunities for soul winning? How do we bring people to Christ? What about dealing with difficult people? How do we know when there's an open opportunity?
How can we live by the Word of God? How can we spend time with God and why is spending that time so important? What emphasis did Jesus place on knowing and understanding scripture while He was here on earth? How can we make God our teacher when we study the Bible? How can music help us commit to memory what God says in His Word?
What do we do when we come across difficult passages in the Bible? Should difficulty make you give up your faith? Should we assume there aren't answers simply because we don't know them or they weren't revealed to us immediately? How can searching for answers be a blessing? What kind of attitude or mindset should we have when we come across difficult passages? What is the best resource to use?
What does the Bible say about Creation? Did God create the world in 6 literal days? How can we know for sure? How does theistic evolution contradict the Bible? How does the Sabbath reinforce the Biblical perspective? How does Creation impact our view of marriage and salvation?
Why do we need to interpret scripture? Is there a right or wrong way? Can scripture be understood correctly? What is hermeneutics? What biases might we have in culture, language, presuppositions, or our personal lives that make it difficult to understand the Bible in its proper context? How does our sinful and fallen nature play a role? Who was the first revisionist?
Tradition, experience, reason, culture and the Bible all play a role in matters of faith. But, what is the proper role of each? What is the most authoritative in matters of faith, religion, practice, and theology? What does the Bible say is most authoritative? How did Jesus value tradition? How do you know when the Holy Spirit is leading? Can we trust what we feel and experience?
Can we trust the Bible? How do we know it is divinely inspired? What role did God play in the process that produced the Bible? What claims does the Bible make about itself?
Are there times when faithfulness to God and your responsibilities in secular matters can lead to jealousy? Are there people who conspire against you when you do the right thing? Daniel finds himself in the lions den as King Darius makes an ill-advised law that requires Daniel to choose between God and the king. Daniel would have to choose between his conscience or his faith. Are we sometimes put in these situations today? How can we respond? How does God respond?
How did God encourage the Jews to rebuild even in times of great opposition? What role did Haggai, Zecharaiah, Nehemiah, Ezra, Zerubbabel, Jeshua, and others play? What lessons about ministry and working for God can we learn from their story?
The mind is most easily deceived when it’s attention is not focused where it should be. The moment you get distracted, the moment you get pulled in a particular direction. You can miss something you should have seen but didn’t see because your eyes weren’t where they needed to be.