Discussion Questions: Baptist Catechism 93

  1. What is meant by means? Hint: What is the means by which water gets from the reservoir to your sink?
  2. What would be the inward means by which we are brought salvation?
  3. Why are these means of grace called outward and ordinary?
  4. What are the outward and ordinary means of grace?
  5. Which one of these means of grace is a converting ordinance? In other words, which one is used by God to call sinners to faith and repentance?
  6. How does God use each one of these means to save and sanctify his people?
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Discussion Questions: Luke 22:1-23

  1. What was the Passover meal, and what did it commemorate?
  2. What is the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and why was it sometimes referred to as Passover? How does this fact help us to understand that perplexing verse in John 18:28?
  3. While Jesus was preparing to celebrate the Passover with his disciples, what were Judas, the chief priests, and the scribes thinking about?
  4. Why does Luke tell us that Satan entered Judas’ heart? What does this mean? What does this reveal concerning the enemies of Jesus?
  5. What is the relationship between the Passover and the Lord’s Supper? How are they similar? How are they distinct? Why does this matter?
  6. What is the festival of the New Covenant, and how are we to keep it?
  7. What can we learn from the fact that Jesus knew Judas would betray him?
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Discussion Questions: Baptist Catechism 91

  1. What other foundational truths need to be known for a person to understand why faith in Jesus Christ saves?
  2. Why does our catechism say that faith in Jesus Christ is a saving grace? What is meant by saving? Why is faith called a grace?
  3. What does our catechism mean when it says that to have faith in Christ is to receive him and rest upon him?
  4. Why does our catechism add the word alone? How important is that word?
  5. How is Jesus offered to sinners? How do sinners come to understand who he is, what he has done, and why they need him?
  6. Do you have faith in Christ? 
  7. Are you urging others to turn from their sins and to trust in Jesus?
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Discussion Questions: Hebrews 3:12-19

  1. Every Christian has the responsibility to keep their own heart pure (Luke 21:34). What obligation do we have to one another?
  2. What is exhortation?
  3. Discuss what it means to exhort one another lovingly.
  4. Discuss what it means to exhort one another carefully.
  5. Discuss what it means to exhort one another consistently.
  6. Discuss what it means to exhort one another in and unto Christ.
  7. Discuss what it means to exhort one another until we enter eternal rest.
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Discussion Questions: Baptist Catechism 89 & 90

  1. How has our catechism prepared us for the good news delivered to us in question 89?
  2. Some sins are more heinous in God’s sight than others. We confess this to be true (Baptist Catechism 88). But what does every single sin deserve?
  3. What is the short answer to the question, What doth God require of us, that we may escape His wrath and curse, due to us for sin?
  4. What is faith in Christ? (Preview Baptist Catechism 91)
  5. Why does our catechism mention repentance and the diligent use of the outward means alongside faith in Christ? Does this contradict the doctrine of salvation through faith in Christ alone? Explain. 
  6. What is repentance? (Preview Baptist Catechism 92)
  7. What are the outward means of grace? (Preview Baptist Catechism 93)
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Discussion Questions: Luke 21:34

  1. What is the heart (the heart of the soul; the non-material one)?
  2. How does the condition of the heart affect our thoughts, words, and deeds? Why, therefore, is it so important to keep the heart pure? 
  3. What does it mean to have the heart weighed down with “dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life” (Luke 21:34)? What is the intoxicating substance (see Luke 8:14)? What are the cares of this life? 
  4. Of the seven points presented about earthly-mindedness, which stood out to you the most?
  5.   What are the remedies to earthly-mindedness?
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Discussion Questions: Baptist Catechism 88

  1. What is sin? (You may go to Baptist Catechism 17 for help in answering this)
  2. Does every sin, no matter how big or small, make us guilty before God and deserving of his judgment?
  3. Are some sins worse than others, though? Discuss.
  4. What is meant in the phrase, “by reason of several aggravations” in Baptist Catechism 88? What factors make a sin more aggravating to God in one situation than another?
  5. If all are sinners, then why do we sometimes say he’s a good guy, or, she’s a good lady, when speaking of others? Are we wrong to talk in this way?
  6. What should this teaching about sin cause us to do?
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Discussion Questions: Baptist Catechism 87

  1. Review the 10 Commandments. 
  2. God’s law is good if we use it lawfully (see 1 Timothy 1:8). What does this mean? How have men and women misused God’s law?
  3. Why is Baptist Catechism 87 such a crucial Q&A?
  4.  What is the very short, two-letter word, answer to the question, Is any man able perfectly to keep the commandments of God?
  5. Why is the answer to question 87 so long, then? Why does it say:
    1. No mere man…
    2. Since the fall
    3. Is able in this life
    4. Perfectly to keep the commandments of God?
  6. How does this Q&A prepare for the good news of salvation through faith in Christ alone?
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