Adults -- Sunday Morning Classes

1. What different doctrine do you think Paul was talking about?
2. What fables (myths) do you suppose Paul was referring to?
3. Why do you think genealogies would be “endless”.
4. Why would Paul say the law was not made for the righteous?

1. Why would Paul concentrate on how bad he had been?
2. How much do you believe ignorance excuses bad behavior? (Why does Paul appeal to his ignorance?)
3. How do you feel one can make “shipwreck” the faith?
4. If you were going to hand someone over to Satan, how would you do it?

1. Is it really necessary for Christians to pray for all men? Why?
2. If we pray for government, what should we ask God for? (What might our prayers be for government today?)
3. Is it necessarily true that Christ’s mediatorship excludes all others? (Don’t we pray for each other?)

1. Why do you believe Paul emphasized that men should pray? Is it possible he used “men” as a general word (such as “mankind” to include both men and women?)
2. Why does Paul define women’s role in such a “politically incorrect” way?
3. Do you have any clue what Paul meant when he said women would be saved through child-bearing?

Special for all teens & adults in the auditorium with Dr. Monty Cox of Harding University.
 

1. Can we use this passage as a “check-list” for bishop (overseer) qualifications? How?
2. Is “desire” one of the qualifications an overseer must have?
3. Must each man have these qualities in the absolute sense?
4. To be qualified must a man have some, most or all of them?

1. How would you characterize the difference between the qualities for a Bishop vs. those of a deacon?
2. What do you think “not given to much wine” means?
3. Are the women mentioned the wives of deacons or deaconesses?

1. What do you think Paul was talking about when he mentioned “behaving in the household of God”?
2. What does it mean to have one’s conscience “seared”?
3. Has what the Spirit said come to pass? (In what way?)

1. What does Paul think it takes to be a good minister?
2. How does Paul’s description compare to what we expect ministers to do today?

1. What seems to be Paul’s model for how to treat other Christians?
2. Is it wrong for children who are Christians to put their parents on government welfare vs. taking care of them themselves?

1. What do you think Paul meant by “enrolling widows”?
2. What do you make of Paul’s reason for not enrolling younger widows?
3. Why do you think Paul lays the first responsibility for widows on their relatives? Is there any occasion when the church might need to step in ahead of relatives to care for widows?

1. What is the difference between laboring in word vs. teaching?
2. What do think is the difference between “honor” and “double honor”?
3. Why was it necessary for Paul to quote the image of a laborer and an ox?
4. Why do we need 2 or 3 witnesses to bring a charge against an elder?
5. Should we use a little wine for stomach trouble today?

1. Would it be right for us to have slaves today? Why not? If they were allowed to have them, why can’t we?
2. What if we as Christians became political slaves to unbelieving masters, would we be obligated to obey them? Why not?
3. How would you have felt in the lst century if you (as a Christian) became the slave of a Christian master?

1. What should we do with people who in Paul’s words have an “unhealthy craving for controversy?”
2. Can we be content with only food and clothing as Paul states?
3. If we can’t, why can’t we? What did Paul mean?
4. Is the desire to be rich all bad?
5. Why is the love of money the root of all kinds of evil?

1. What is the “good confession”?
2. How did Jesus make the good confession before Pilate?
3. What kind of fight (in Paul’s words) is a “good fight”

1. Why are the rich exhorted not to be haughty/high-minded?
2. If you are rich or even moderately rich, how can you show that you are handling your riches properly in God’s sight?
3. Why do you think Paul calls riches “uncertain”?