Preachers' Study
December 25-28, 2000
DIFFICULT TEXTS
- Modest Apparel And Woman's Role
- Melvin Blalock
- Deut 22:5
- I Pet 3:3
- I Tim 2:9-10
- I Tim 2:11-12
- I Cor 14:34-35
- I Tim 2:8-15
- Verses Commonly Misapplied
- Allen Bailey
- I Tim 5:22
- Lay hands suddenly on no man
- Rev 2:10
- Be thou faithful until death
- John 14-15-16
- To whom is text directed?
- I Thess 4:16-17
- Who shall be resurrected first?
- Gal 2-6
- Angels And Higher Powers
- Glen Osburn
- Eph 3:9
- What is the "fellowship of the mystery"?
- Eph 3:10
- What is the function of the Church with regard to principalities and powers?
- Eph 6:12
- Who and what are these principalities and powers?
- Matt 8:11-12
- Who are the "Angels of the little ones"?
- Luke 12:8-9
- Who are these angels? ...Harmonize with Matt 10:32-33
- I Cor 6:2-3
- How do we as Christians judge the world and angels?
- Matt 12:43-45
- What is the principle being taught by the going and coming of the evil spirits?
- Variations In Preaching / Evangelistic Duties
- Dennis Smith
- Phil 1:15-18, Mark 9:38-42
- Do these scriptures indicate that we should not oppose differing doctrines as long as they are
teaching about Christ?
- II Tim 4:5
- Does this scripture allow evangelists to do the work of an elder and thus become on a par with
the denominational pastor
system?
- Difficult Passages On The Kingdom
- Doug Edwards
- Matt 8 :11-12
- What is meant by "The children of the kingdom shall be cast into outer
darkness"?
- Jesus And The Holy Spirit
- Jimmie Smith
- Luke 2:40
- Luke 2:49
- Luke 2:52
- Heb 4:15
- Heb 5:8
- Did Jesus have a full measure of the Holy Spirit from birth to age
30?
~or~ Was it limited until the Holy Spirit fell on Him at His
baptism?
- If He was perfect, filled with a full measure of the Holy Spirit,
how did He "increase in wisdom"?
- How did He "learn obedience" through the things that He suffered?
- Uses Of Money
- Art Lynch
- Luke 16:8-9
- How (and why) should we "Make friends of the mammon of
unrighteousness"?
- Heb 7:8
- Does this scripture teach tithing?
- God's Foreknowledge And Control
- Alan Bonifay
- Acts 13:48
- Explain: "As many as were ordained to eternal life
believed."
- Romans 8:29-30
- Does God foreknow and predestinate individuals?
- Romans 9:13-16
- Does God arbitrarily show mercy to individuals?
- Romans 9:15-20
- Does God choose people for destruction?
- Romans 9:21
- Does God's sovereignty overrule man's free will?
- Romans 9:21-23
- How can "one vessel be chosen unto honor and another unto dishonor" and God still not be a respecter of persons?
- The Covering
- Purpose Of Covering Of Hair
- David Stands
- I Cor 11:10
- Explain: "For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels"
- Righteousness
- Johnny Elmore
- Romans 4:1-25
- Explain the doctrine of Imputed Righteousness
- Galatians 3:6-9
- What is "accounted for righteousness"?
- Is It Sometimes Acceptable To Do Wrong?
- Richard Bunner
- Heb 11:31
- Contrasted with Joshua 2:3-6
- II Pet 2:8
- Contrasted with Gen 19:8, Gen 19:36
- Lot's righteousness even after offering his daughters to wicked
men
- Gen 22:1
- Contrasted with James 1:13
- Reconcile seemingly conflicting scriptures
- Doctrine Of Christ
- Jim Crouch
- Heb 5:11 - Heb 6:6
- What are the "principles" or "elementary teachings"?
- What principles would qualify as "meat" and
"milk"?
- What is meant by "impossible" in this text?
- What is meant by "renew them to repentance"?
- Church Autonomy
- Bennie Cryer
- Acts 15
- Does it or does it not violate church autonomy when a congregation supports an evangelist who is working at a
different congregation and he answers to the supporting congregation instead of the one where he is working?
- What happens to church autonomy when a brother who has been disfellowshipped at one congregation goes to another congregation
and is fellowshipped?
- Do we as individuals (or as evangelists) have the right or responsibility to make suggestions to a congregation where we are neither
attending nor supporting when we feel their actions are not the best?
- When one congregation helps start a second congregation, is there any accountability of the second congregation to the first
congregation? (Mother church?)
- Christian Liberties
- Raymond Fox
- Define the "strong" brother and the "weak" brother
- Do we sometimes think of ourselves as "strong" just because we are very strict, while these verses seem to indicate the "weak"
condemns certain behavior which the "strong" allows? Is there ever a time when the "weak" or "new convert" is required to give up
a liberty to keep from offending the "strong" or "established member"?
- How can we establish guidelines to determine what is a liberty
(left up to our personal opinion) and what is a requirement of the
Lord? Do we sin when we teach our interpretation as a command when someone else just as sincerely sees it quite differently?
- The Christian And The End Of Time
- Ronny Wade
- I Pet 4:7
- What is meant by the "end of all things"?
- I Pet 4: 12-13
- What is the "fiery trial"?
- I Pet 4:18
- Harmonize "scarcely be saved" with II Pet 1:11 "abundant entrance."
- Qualifications Of Elders
- Mark Bailey
- Titus 1:6
- Does "one wife" mean one living wife?
- One wife at a time? ...thus forbidding a polygamist
- Does it forbid a
man who has been divorced if he had the exception?
- How does it apply if his first wife died and he has remarried?
- Is he obligated
to remarry if his wife dies?
- Does the phrase "faithful children" mean "all of his children must be
faithful" or that he must have one or more "faithful
children"?
