Post by RayW on Mar 5, 2014 14:01:54 GMT -8
Please post your answers to the following questions here:
1. What is the first thing that comes to your mind when the work church is mentioned? Discuss why?
2. Why do you think the “Average Joe” only thinks of a building when the word church is mentioned? How has the Church itself contributed to this misunderstanding?
3. Do you feel a greater since of reverence, awe, inspiration, or the presence of God in a church building than you do outside a church building? Explain. Do you think that God wants us to feel differently inside a church building than outside? Explain.
4. Why do you think that the liberal view of the Church emphasizes the social aspects of Christianity and disregards the doctrinal? Explain. How have you experienced or witnessed this? Give examples.
5. Many people in the church have been on short term mission trips. Depending on what organization one goes with, these trips will emphasis different things. Some trips will go and without a word benevolently help build houses, bring medical care, or do carpentry repair work. Some missions trips emphasize only proclamation of the Gospel to those in the streets. Some do both. Discuss the agenda of mission trips that you have been on in the past.
6. How does one’s view of the Church effect what their agenda might be on a mission trip? Discuss.
7. How does the distinction between the invisible and visible church help you in your understanding of the Church? Discuss.
8. Read Matt. 13:24-30. How does this passage apply to the visible and invisible church?
9. How was your thinking challenged the most by the lesson? Explain.
1. What is the first thing that comes to your mind when the work church is mentioned? Discuss why?
2. Why do you think the “Average Joe” only thinks of a building when the word church is mentioned? How has the Church itself contributed to this misunderstanding?
3. Do you feel a greater since of reverence, awe, inspiration, or the presence of God in a church building than you do outside a church building? Explain. Do you think that God wants us to feel differently inside a church building than outside? Explain.
4. Why do you think that the liberal view of the Church emphasizes the social aspects of Christianity and disregards the doctrinal? Explain. How have you experienced or witnessed this? Give examples.
5. Many people in the church have been on short term mission trips. Depending on what organization one goes with, these trips will emphasis different things. Some trips will go and without a word benevolently help build houses, bring medical care, or do carpentry repair work. Some missions trips emphasize only proclamation of the Gospel to those in the streets. Some do both. Discuss the agenda of mission trips that you have been on in the past.
6. How does one’s view of the Church effect what their agenda might be on a mission trip? Discuss.
7. How does the distinction between the invisible and visible church help you in your understanding of the Church? Discuss.
8. Read Matt. 13:24-30. How does this passage apply to the visible and invisible church?
9. How was your thinking challenged the most by the lesson? Explain.