Witness and Service: The Fruit of Revival

Witness and Service: The Fruit of Revival

Sabbath School July 27, 2013         

 

1.       Who developed the religious teachings that the disciples were raised to obey?

 

2.       What was the purpose of these teachings?

 

3.       How does the influence of these teachings, indoctrinated from their youth, still resound in the disciples' question in Acts 1:6?

 

4.       Did the teachings of Christ align with the teachings of the Jewish religious teachers?

 

5.       How did they differ?

 

6.       How does this difference shed light on Christ's response in Acts 1:7-8?

 

7.       Is Christ referring to a change in method for restoring the kingdom?

 

8.       Is restoring the kingdom a matter of a better strategy?

 

9.       Is restoring the kingdom a matter of greater knowledge?

 

10.   Is restoring the kingdom a matter of more accurate doctrine?

 

11.   Is restoring the kingdom a matter of a more precise adherence to the Law?

 

12.   Is restoring the kingdom in the hands of man?

 

13.   Is restoring the kingdom a partnership between man and God or as witnessed by scripture when God brought Israel out of Egypt?

 

14.   What is the fundamental difference in Christ's restoration of the kingdom to the disciples' expected means?

 

15.   Can we bear witness to what we have not experienced?

 

16.   Do our actions accomplished by strength common to all bear a witness to the divine?

 

17.   What makes our witness any different than those who claim there is no God?

 

18.   Did Philip coordinate his evangelism to the Ethiopian?  Who did?

 

19.   Who gives us the experience of which we testify?

 

20.   Who gives us the words by which we share our testimony?

 

21.   Is it us, by our mental capabilities, that prepare ourselves for revealing Christ?

 

22.   Is preparation for witnessing a matter of study or a matter of surrender?

 

23.   How then do we prepare for service?  John 4:25. 1 Cor 2:14-16