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• How can human beings who are tainted by sin possibly be stones in God’s holy temple?
•  What is the relationship between our being made holy by the grace of God through faith in Christ, and our pursuit and growth in holiness? Why is it important to get the order correct?
• Will we reach perfection in this life? Why or why not?
• How should a believer strive after holiness?
• What role does discipline (formative and corrective) play in maintaining and promoting holiness within Christ’s church?

Sermon Notes And Worship Guide

Active Listener Guide For Children

Youth Study Discussion Questions

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• What is the purpose of the church?
• How can understanding the purpose of an institution help to clarify its nature, organization, and its functioning? How does understanding the purpose of the church clarify its nature, organization, and its functioning?
• The purpose of the church is not for us to decide. It’s been revealed. Discuss. 
• Do you see the church as glorious? Why? 
• The purpose of the church is to worship and proclaim. How is this to be done corporately, in families, and individually?
• What are the elements of New Covenant corporate worship?
• How has this little series on “the church as temple” changed or refined the way that you view the church?

Active Listener Guide for Children

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• Why did some of the Jewish Christians who lived in the earliest days of the church struggle (emotionally, mentally, theologically) with the transition from the Old Covenant to the New Covenant?
• The church today often appears to be weak and insignificant, worldly speaking. Why is this? How might those who profess Christ be tempted to turn their back on Christ and his true church given this reality? What is the solution to this problem? 
• Peter says that Christ is both God’s precious and chosen cornerstone and a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense. How can one stone be these two different things to different people? What makes the difference?
• Where is the doctrine of predestination or election taught in 1 Peter 2? Why is this an important doctrine?
• Faith is a gift. How do people come to have faith in time? 
•  What is the purpose of God’s temple-church?
• How should this teaching affect the way you view the church?

Household Worship Guide

Active Listener Guide For Young Children

Youth Study Discussion Questions

• Why is the first commandment first?
• The first commandment is stated negatively. “You shall not…”, it says. Why then are we asking what it requires (positively)? How can we know?
• What does it mean to know God?
• What does it mean to acknowledge him to be our God?
• What does it mean to worship and glorify him accordingly?
• Have you kept this law perfectly? What then should you do? 
• By God’s grace, what can you do to keep this law in thought, word, and deed?

PM Service Buletin with Catechism Teaching Outline

Youth Study Discussion Questions

• What does “preface” mean? 
• What was communicated to Israel in the preface of the Ten Commandments? 
• What is a bad motivation for obeying God’s law? 
• Where in the scriptures are we warned against using God’s law as a way to salvation?
• Where in our catechism are we warned against using God’s law as a way to salvation?
• What is the only way to be forgiven, made right with God, and to go to heaven?
• If not for salvation, then why should we obey God’s law?

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QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION AT HOME OR IN GOSPEL COMMUNITY GROUPS

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• What does the word “church” mean?
• God’s temple is present in the world under the New Covenant in a much greater way than it was under the Old Covenant. How so? Why would this seem backward to the non-believer?
• What do we mean when we say that the church is God’s inaugurated worldwide and eternal new creation temple? What is meant by inaugurated? 
• What are some possible implications for thinking of the church as God’s inaugurated worldwide and eternal new creation temple? How might this way of viewing the church affect our perspective concerning the nature of the church, the role of pastors, the purpose of the church, how she expands, etc?

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DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: BAPTIST CATECHISM 44-47

• Why is it most appropriate to ask the question, “What is the duty which God requireth of man?” at this point in the catechism? 
• What is meant by “revealed will”? What is God’s “hidden” or “secret will”? Which one are we called to obey? Why are we to obey the one and not the other?
• Where did God first “write” his moral law?
• Where in the Scriptures should we go to find a summary of God’s moral law?
• Why is it important that the Ten Commandments be said to contain a summary of God’s moral law? In other words, why should the Ten Commandments not be strictly equated with the moral law? 
• What is the sum of the Ten Commandments? How do these two laws get to the heart of the first four and last six of the Ten Commandments, respectively?

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