IBC Richmond

Application Questions:
• How are people saved?
• What were the circumstances leading to your conversion?
• Do you remember a specific time you were saved?
• Discuss with a friend what Paul’s blindness signifies?
• Apply the statement, “You will be a witness for him to everyone of what you have seen and heard” (Acts 22:15). Who are you specifically witnessing to?

Application Questions:
1. Who appoints a pastor according to Acts 20:28?
2. After reading Paul’s anecdotal sermon, how prominent is conflict/suffering in ministry?
3. Who are the wolves (vs. 29)? How you recognize and fight them?
4. List 2-3 creative ways you can personally apply the statement, “It is more blessed to give than to receive.” (vs. 31)

Application Questions:
1. What does it mean to know God? For a believer? For an unbeliever?
2. What are appropriate forms of contextualization?
3. What are inappropriate forms of contextualization? How do they compromise the Gospel?
4. When it says, “[Paul’s] spirit was provoked within him as he saw that the city was full of idols” (vs. 16), what gives you the same reaction in your city?
5. How must the phrase “He fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness” provoke urgency in the church?