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1. What did you hear about the Bible? about God? about the relationship between God and human beings?
2. When and where did you get your first Bible? Who gave it to you? What did it mean to you at the time?
3. What relationship do you see between the type of literature and the message it carries?
4. In what situations do we pay attention to what Scripture says?
5. Why do we pay attention to Scripture?
6. How does Scripture have authority in my life?
7. What do you expect from the Bible?
8. What does the Bible have a right to expect from its readers?
9. What is the relationship between the authority of Scripture and the experience described in “Our Human Condition”?

1. What does it mean to think of the Creation story as theological rather than as historical or scientific?
2. What do you understand to be the difference between the Creation story and Creation faith?
3. How are we to understand sabbath rest?
4. What changes in attitudes about ourselves and toward God would we need to make if we took seriously the sacredness of sabbath?
5. What changes would we make in our behavior?
6. What benefits would come from treating sabbath as sacred?
7. How would society be affected were Christians seriously to observe sabbath rest?
8. What is the relationship between the experience expressed there and the knowledge and experience of belonging to God?

1. What new ideas did you hear about human beings and about their need of God and others?
2. The word sin is not used in the story. How does the idea of sin apply here?
3. What do they teach us about ourselves? about our relationships with others? about our relationship to God?
4. Where any one of these experiences is present, what are its effects on persons’ lives?
5. What does this passage tell us about God?
6. What does this passage tell us about Noah? How are we like Noah?
7. What does this passage tell us about the relationship between God and us?

1. What relationship do you see between God’s call and God’s covenant?
2. What does this passage say about God?
3. What does this passage say about human beings?
4. What does this passage say about the relationship between God and human beings?
5. What kind of call has the power to draw persons beyond themselves?

1. What are Jews celebrating in Passover?
2. Why do they feel joy and gratitude?
3. How would you compare the feelings you have during Holy Communion?
4. What does that fact say about Israel’s understanding of their relationship to God?
5. As Israel looked back on the Exodus, how did they understand God to be at work at this point?
6. What happens in the story?
7. What do you think the writer wanted to convey in this account?
8. What seems to be the central idea?
9. What meaning does this passage have for the church today?
10. What is the meaning of the passage for me?

1. What is lost if the negative commandment is stated positively?
2. What was the purpose of the Law?
3. How did the requirements of the Law make the Israelites a distinct people?
4. What did the laws God gave the people teach the people about God?
5. What does this passage tell us about God?
6. What does this passage tell us about people?
7. What does this passage tell us about the relationship between God and people?

1. Why were sacrifices necessary?
2. What was the meaning of the sacrifices for the relationship between God and people?
3. What means and opportunities do Christians have in worship for affirming and reaffirming their faith?
4. What can we learn about God from this Scripture?

1. Who were the judges and why were they necessary?
2. How are we to understand the violence and bloodshed in these accounts?
3. How was this event viewed from the perspective of Israel’s faith?
4. What was the condition of the covenant between God and the people at this point?
5. How would the people themselves have described who God was and how they related to God?
6. What kind of person does God choose to carry out God’s purposes?
7. Why do you think God chose this person for leadership?
8. What does this passage tell us about God?
9. What does this passage tell us about human beings?
10. What does this passage tell us about the relationship between God and human beings?
11. How do the political disorder and confusion and the obedience and disobedience in our day compare with that of the time of the judges?

1. What was the people’s experience of a king?
2. How do you think the experience of exile influenced what appears in the books of Samuel?
3. In what ways can you identify with the desires and weaknesses of these biblical people?
4. How do we modern people who are trying to be faithful to the one God experience the lure of other gods?

1. In what sense are corruption of worship of God by pagan practices and social injustice still issues to which prophets must speak?
2. Who is the prophet described in this passage?
3. What is the nature of the disobedience to which the prophet is speaking?
4. What warning does the prophet give?
5. How do the people respond?
6. What new insights did persons have into Elijah and into the story?
7. Why do we prefer not to listen to most warnings?

1. What was the word Jeremiah was called to speak?
2. What needed reforming?
3. How do you think it felt to be Jeremiah?
4. What do you think the writer intended to say for God to those to whom it was written?
5. What does this text have to say to the church in our day?
6. If I took this passage seriously, what change would I have to make in my life?

1. What is surprising about the three responses to the crisis of exile?
2. What does this passage tell us about God?
3. What does this passage tell us about human beings represented by Cyrus?
4. What does this passage tell us about the relationship between God and Cyrus as a human being?

1. Why do we often turn to the Psalms?
2. What are some ways we can use the Psalms?
3. What does the psalm tell us about God?
4. What does the psalm tell us about us?
5. What does the psalm tell us about the relationship between God and us?
6. How do we then achieve the mark of discipleship for this lesson?
7. Why are we often uncomfortable and hesitant about expressing our anger or negative feelings to God?

1. What were the priorities and problems of the reconstituted covenant community?
2. What is different about understanding right living as its own reward and understanding right living for reward?
3. How accurate is this statement in your experience?
4. What are the costs of right living today?
   

1. What three interpretations of the meaning of the Book of Job did Napier describe?
2. Which one is most familiar to you?
3. Try to identify the different kinds of counsel offered by Job’s friends.
4. Observe how their explanations are still used today.
5. Consider the sense in which the explanations are partly true but not completely appropriate.
6. What is to keep us from becoming bitter when we do not understand what is happening to us and why?
7. How can we learn to trust God when we have no answers?

1. What is the purpose of the of the Book of Daniel?
2. What is the message of the Book of Daniel?
3. What are the characteristics of apocalyptic literature?
4. Why do you think the writer of Daniel thought the period of the Exile a good setting for his message?
5. What message of hope would Christians hear in Daniel?

1. In this period between the testaments, how was the stage set for the coming of Christianity?
2. What do these stories tell us about the period between the testaments?
3. What was happening in Judaism?
4. What happened in this story?
5. What did the story likely say to its first hearers?
6. What did the writer of the story want to say for God?
7. What is the story’s central purpose?
8. What does the story mean for me and my life?
9. What difference does it make to understanding the Bible when Christians see themselves as connected to the people of God through the Old Testament?

1. What is unique about Matthew’s picture of Jesus?
2. What is repentance?
3. Who wrote the book?
4. When was it written?
5. To whom?
6. What are the major themes in the book?
7. What was the point the writer wanted to make about Jesus?
8. What is radical or distinctive about the discipleship Jesus called for?
9. What do the notes say about radical discipleship?
10. What does radical discipleship involve?
11. What does this passage tell us about God?
12. What does this passage tell us about human beings?
13. What does this passage tell us about the relationship between God and human beings?
14. Why does the church often settle for making church members instead of making disciples?

1. Why does Matthew have Jesus being so critical of Jewish leadership?
2. Why did the early church that influenced Matthew’s Gospel feel it necessary to emphasize the tensions between Jesus and the Pharisees?
3. What is the nature of the cross we take up?
4. How is Jesus at odds with the pillars of the church today?
5. Imagine being in the courtyard that night. What would you be thinking and feeling?
6. How would becoming vulnerable affect the way of living described in “Our Human Condition”?

1. Why did the disciples misunderstand who Jesus was?
2. What gives Mark its sense of urgency?
3. What one question would you like to ask Jesus about his understanding of his power and the way he used it?
4. What are you thinking and feeling as you watch what is happening?
5. What do you think of Peter’s suggestion?
6. What are you wondering as you come down the mountain, especially when Jesus tells you not to tell anyone about your experience?
7. How can suffering and self-denial be understood and experienced as good news?

1. Suppose you never heard about Jesus. What did you learn about him from Luke’s Gospel?
2. How did Jesus address each of these reasons [persons are the least, the last, the lost]?
3. What is the central idea of the passage?
4. What meaning does this passage have for Christians today?
5. What does this passage require of me?
6. If we put ourselves into the position of the least, the last, and the lost, what do we need from Jesus?

1. What are the distinctive characteristics of the Gospel of John?
2. In what sense is Jesus the bringer of life?
3. How does this Gospel differ from the other three in its tone, emphasis, and purpose?
4. Why do you think many persons claim John as their favorite Gospel?
5. Does Nicodemus remind you of anyone you know?
6. Have you known people who found faith or “life” beside a grave?

1. How are the disciples to be sustained and empowered in Jesus’ absence?
2. According to Jesus, what is to be the work of the Advocate?
3. What promises does Jesus make to his disciples in his farewell to them?
4. What commands does he give his disciples?
5. What descriptions does Jesus give to his disciples of what is to come?
6. What new understandings came from hearing the story this way?

1. Which persons did you meet for the first time?
2. What was surprising about this power of the Holy Spirit?
3. How were persons’ lives changed?
4. How were their attitudes affected?
5. What did they do with this power?
6. What tensions with fellow Jews were built into that situation?
7. What does this passage say about God?
8. What does this passage say about human beings?
9. What does this passage say about the relationship between God and human beings?

1. How might we use the strategy of the early Christians in spreading the gospel?
2. If we see the world as more than geographical, how will that affect our ministry?
3. What were the events, and what was their sequence?
4. What were the issues related to the events?
5. What were the outcomes of the events in terms of their impact on the spread of the gospel?
6. In what ways does Paul serve as a model for you in your role as a disciple?
7. What does this passage tell us about God?
8. What does this passage tell us about human beings?
9. What does this passage tell us about the relationship between God and human beings?
10. How can we overcome our hesitancy to witness to others about Jesus Christ?

1. What points does Paul make in arguing that God can be trusted?
2. Why is it as important to Christians as to Jews to know that God can be trusted?
3. One important understanding to be grasped is our (Gentile Christians) role as “a wild olive shoot” grafted into the “olive tree.” What does that mean?
4. What does this passage tell us about God?
5. What does this passage tell us about human beings?
6. What does this passage tell us about the relationship between God and human beings?
7. How does an attitude of accepting and trusting relate to the situation described in “Our Human Condition”?

1. Who made up the Corinthian congregation?
2. What were Paul’s two principles and what ideas did they include?
3. What were some of the concerns of the Corinthian church?
4. What advice did Paul give?
5. What concerns face our local church today?
6. How might the advice Paul gave to the Corinthians be useful to our church?
7. What is in each picture?
8. The theme word for this lesson is love. Why is that word so important to the Corinthian church and to the modern local church?
9. What did you hear? What did you wonder? What did you feel?
10. How does showing love relate to “Our Human Condition”?

1. What were the two main problems Paul talks about in Galatians?
2. What was Paul’s main point?
3. What was the point of the opponents?
4. If Paul had surrendered his point, what would have been the outcome?
5. Are you now experiencing a freedom from living by rules in your relationship with God? If so, how did you gain freedom? If not, what is keeping you from experiencing such freedom?
6. What does Jesus Christ set us free to do?
7. What does this passage tell us about God?
8. What does this passage tell us about human beings?
9. What does this passage tell us about the relationship between God and human beings?
10. What is the message in Galatians to the situation described in “Our Human Condition”?

1. What was the purpose of these letters to pastors?
2. What was the point of view from which the letters were written?
3. How do these issues [(1) helping people adhere to the central doctrines of the faith, (2) teaching diligently, (3) respecting spiritual authority and leadership, (4) caring for family, and (5) handling money] concern us today?
4. How can leaders who give guidance and the desire to discover things for oneself work together rather than against one another?
   

1. How is God speaking in our present situation through Scripture and the shared memory of the church?
2. How does the response made by Hebrews to the problem provide the necessary endurance and patience?
3. What strength do you draw from the knowledge that Jesus faced the same temptations we face?
4. What does Jesus’ sacrifice mean for the way you live?
5. How do these similarities or differences contribute to the teaching of the superiority of Jesus Christ?
6. What power do sacrifice and forgiveness have for the condition described there?
   

1. How does baptism set us apart as God’s people?
2. According to First and Second Peter, what are some ways disciples are set apart?
3. What kind of suffering results from holy living or being set apart?
4. Do we tend to interpret holy in a negative sense more often than in a positive sense? If so, why?
5. What is it that keeps the person described under “Marks of Discipleship” from being the person described in “Our Human Condition”?

1. What was John’s message to the seven churches?
2. What kinds of literature are in Revelation?
3. What is the message of Revelation?
4. Where in the symbolic language do you hear the message of hope and encouragement to remain faithful?
5. What meaning might this Scripture have for us today?
6. What answer would you give yourselves and what answer would you give anyone who asks you, Where is the victory? Where is the hope?
   

1. How is every Christian a minister to others?
   

No questions this lesson.