Reasoning Through the Bible

Paul pays his own way by being a tentmaker, and in doing so converts his coworkers Priscilla and Aquilla. Paul spends a great deal of time building and teaching a church in Corinth. The Corinthian church, however, has a great deal of questions and issues even though they had so much of Paul's time.  

As always, Luke includes a great deal of historical detail which corroborates the book of Acts in history.  We learn about Paul's methods for starting new churches. 

Jesus gives a word of encouragement to Paul to reassure him, which the Lord will often do with all His followers. 

• Should Christian workers take donations or work a job? 
• Who is responsible when someone does not accept Christ?
• Is it possible that a church can have a great pastor and still have a lot of problems and issues?

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Paul is invited by the Greek philosophers to speak with them. Paul starts with something they will understand, an idol to the unknown god, then presents the gospel of Jesus Christ.  Paul seems to know the philosophers' teaching well enough to address it directly, quoting two their philosopher poets, showing that their teachings are corrected by the gospel of Jesus.  

• How familiar should Christians be with the beliefs and culture of the non-believing world?
• How should we speak to people who are wrong about their beliefs?
• Does God need our worship? 
• How far away is God? 

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Paul finds himself in Athens waiting on his friends.  Paul is not idle while he waits, for he speaks with everyone he meets as he goes through daily tasks.  He speaks to Jews, Gentiles who were worshiping the true God, and the Greek philosophers.  God raises Paul's spiritual interest in all these people.  Paul is doing ministry with everyone as he goes through his daily activities.  

• What must we have to be successful in reaching people for Christ?
• How are we to speak to others about Biblical things? 
• Should we follow ancient paths or new innovative ones?

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The apostle Paul, still on his second missionary journey, comes to the town of Thessalonica.  There he starts a church but also encounters resistance.  Paul reasons with all of the people he encounters, drawing logical conclusions with them about Jesus.   Many of the problems Paul encounters is due to jealousy, which can cause great problems still today.  Paul converts people, including leading women and the leader of the synagogue.  

• Does the gospel exist in the Old Testament scriptures?
• What problems can jealousy cause?
•  Can Christians expect to be persecuted today?

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In this session we discuss Paul in Acts 17 where he evangelizes the philosophers in Athens.  

•  Was it wise of Paul to reason with the Greek philosophers?
•  How did Paul treat the philosophers compared to the average people in the marketplace and the Jews?
•  Paul quoted the writings of the philosophers . . . was this effective  or not?
• How can we beware of philosophy while still being careful to understand the difficult concepts of the Bible and being able to discern truth from error? 

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Paul and Silas were beaten severely and thrown in prison. Yet they were singing praises to God at midnight and all the prisoners were listening. God does a miracle and frees them. In this process, the center of power shifts so that the municipal leaders start out thinking they are in charge, but soon find out who is actually controlling things.   As always, God blesses faithfulness. 

• What rights go to a citizen of heaven? 
• What gives us rights in God's kingdom?
• What good things happened because of Paul's beating and imprisonment?

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In Acts 8, Simon the Sorcerer professes belief in Jesus and begins to follow the apostles. Yet later he says things that give us doubt whether he truly was saved.  Since similar situations happen today, how can we know whether someone is saved? In this informal discussion, we talk about Lordship Salvation, professed by John MacArthur, and Free Grace, championed by Zane Hodges.   Can we be saved and not have the Holy Spirit?   

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Paul and his companions travel to Philippi and start a church with a rather eclectic group of people. We meet Lydia, a businesswoman from the upper class, and a slave girl from the lower class.  The Lord delivers both of them.  When Paul casts a spirit out of the slave girl, the owners charge him with a crime and Paul is beaten and thrown in prison.  We again learn of the accurate history in the book of Acts. 

• What is the first thing Christians typically do after they believe?
• What happens to people who grow up in a place where they have not heard about Jesus?
• Can an evil spirit tell the truth?
• What should we do if someone tells lies about us? 

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In this informal discussion, we give comments on our approach to Bible teaching, how churches should teach the Bible, and the Kingdom of Heaven vs. the Kingdom of God.  This session reveals our philosophy of how we approach Bible teaching in our RTTB ministry. 

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What is Covenant Theology?  How about Dispensational Theology? Amillennialism? 

In this session we have an informal discussion on our thoughts on these systems and their strengths and weaknesses.  We start with discussing Matthew 19:28 where it says the apostles will sit on twelve thrones judging Israel.  

• What does this mean specifically? 
• Was it fulfilled in 70 AD or is it still future? 
• How are people saved?  
• Are Israel and the church the same thing or different? 

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