Discussion Questions: Baptist Catechism 7 (Part 3)

  1. Discuss different ways to categorize the attributes or perfections of God. 
  2. What is the difference between the communicable and incommunicable attributes of God? Which of the attributes listed in Baptist Catechism 7 belong to each category?
  3. What does it mean that God is infinite, eternal, and unchangeable in His holiness? 
  4. What does it mean that God is infinite, eternal, and unchangeable in His justice?
  5. What does it mean that God is infinite, eternal, and unchangeable in His goodness?
  6. What does it mean that God is infinite, eternal, and unchangeable in His truth?
  7. How do these attributes of God make you feel? Do they make you tremble? Do they bring peace? What does Jesus and his work on the cross have to do with this?
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Discussion Questions: Luke 10:1-20

  1. What is the significance of the number 70 (or 72)? What other passages of Scripture are we to think of when we hear this number? When Jesus sent a group of this size, what message did it send?
  2. What was their mission? How was their mission similar to ours? How was it different? What can we learn from this passage about our mission?
  3. What was their method? How was their method similar to ours? How was it different? What can we learn from this passage about our method?
  4. What did Jesus mean when he said, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven”? Why was Satan there? Why is he there no longer? Where is he now? What should the Christian think about Satan and his demons? No concern at all? Fear? What?
  5. What does it mean to have your name written in heaven? How can we know if our names are written in heaven?
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Discussion Questions: Baptist Catechism 7 (Part 2)

  1. What do we mean when we say that God is infinite, eternal, and unchangeable?
  2. Why is it important for us to apply these three terms to each of the seven perfections of God that are mentioned in our catechism?
  3. Why is it better to use the word “perfections” than “attributes” when speaking of God? 
  4. What does it mean that God is infinite, eternal, and unchangeable in his being?
  5. What does it mean that God is infinite, eternal, and unchangeable in his wisdom?
  6. What does it mean that God is infinite, eternal, and unchangeable in his power?
  7. How should these truths make a sinner feel? How should these truths make one who is redeemed, forgiven, and reconciled to the Father through faith in Christ Jesus feel? 
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Discussion Questions: Baptist Catechism 7

  1. Review Baptist Catechism questions 1-6. What is the relationship between questions 1-6 and 7? 
  2. When we ask the question what is this thing or that? what are we talking about? What is a tree? What is a dog? What is a human? What is God? 
  3. “God is spirit.” Notice, we are not here talking about the third person of the Triune God – the Holy Spirit. We are saying that the Triune God is spirit. What does this mean? And what is the best and simplest Scripture text to cite in support of this?   
  4. How are we to interpret those passages of Scripture that speak of God using the language of human body parts or human emotion? What is the truth communicated by these passages? How can these passages be misinterpreted? (Take Psalm 18:35, Genesis 6:6, and 1 Samual 15:29 as examples. What is the key to interpreting these passages properly?
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Discussion Questions: Luke 9:57-62

  1. Having Jesus as Savior will cost you nothing. Having Jesus as Savior will cost you everything. How so?  
  2. What can we learn from the exchange between Jesus and the first would-be disciple of Luke 9:57-58? Given Jesus’ reply, what was this man likely expecting? How, in particular, did Jesus call this man to count the cost? 
  3. What can we learn from the exchange between Jesus and the disciple of Luke 9:59-60? Why did Jesus deny his request to return home to bury his father? Don’t the Scriptures command us to honor father and mother? What then are we to make of Jesus’ words?
  4. What can we learn from the exchange between Jesus and the would-be disciple of Luke 9:61-62? Why should we compare this exchange to the story of Elijah’s call of Elisha in 1 Kings 19:19-21? What are the similarities and differences between these stories? Why did Jesus deny the man’s request to return home?
  5. Discuss the potential costs of following Jesus in our time and place. Have you counted the cost? Is it worth it to follow Jesus?
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Discussion Questions: Baptist Catechism 6

  1. What is meant by “chiefly”?
  2. What are the two things that the Scriptures are mainly about?
  3. What does the Bible teach us about God?
  4. In what questions does our catechism teach what we should believe about God?
  5. How is the gospel of Jesus Christ presented in this section?
  6. What does the Bible say about what God requires of us?
  7. In what questions does our catechism teach what God requires of us?
  8. How is the gospel of Jesus Christ presented in this section?
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Discussion Questions: Luke 9:46-56

  1. What was going on in the minds and hearts of the disciples at this point in Jesus’ ministry? How can we know? 
  2. Why is personal pride incompatible with life in the kingdom of Christ?
  3. What is a party spirit? How would it have hindered the furtherance of the kingdom of Christ if not irradicated?
  4. How should the believer respond to their enemies under the New Covenant? Read Romans 12:19-21 and discuss. 
  5. The kingdom of Christ is an upside-down kingdom. Discuss the meaning of this saying. Discuss the significance for our lives personally.
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Discussion Questions: Luke 9:37-45

  1. What did Pastor Joe identify as the theme that runs through Luke 9:37-62?
  2. When Jesus rebuked the faithless and twisted generation, to whom was he speaking?
  3. What can we learn from the demon-possessed boy about Satan and our fallen condition? 
  4. Jesus displayed his glory on the mountain. How did he display his glory when he came down from the mountain?
  5. What can we learn about Jesus and his mission from his act of delivering the boy from his bondage and returning him to his father?
  6. Why did Jesus warn his disciples at this moment that he would soon fall into the hands of sinful men to suffer?
  7. Why were the disciples of Jesus unable to comprehend his words? Why were they afraid to ask him what he meant? 
  8. Why is it vital to identify with Jesus, not only in his glory but first in his suffering?
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