The Preachers Pay a
Price
- Why do people resist the gospel and persecute the preacher who is trying to impart good news free?
- After how much persecution can a preacher be excused from further evangelism? Would Paul have been exonerated from spreading the gospel after being jailed and whipped, etc.?
Paul’s Preaching
Strategy
- Why did Paul reach out first to Jews when he entered a city even though they made it hard for him? Are Adventists justified in reaching out to Christians first when they enter a city or should they target non-Christians with the gospel?
- Is it advisable to preach to non-Christians from their scriptures like we approach Jews from the Old Testament?
Two Views of the
Messiah
- What would have been the result if Jesus came the first time as a royal king to deliver Israel from the Romans? Were the Jews justified in expecting the messiah to come as a delivering king?
- How is servanthood expected to be seen in a church administrator? In what tangible ways can one understand that it has been achieved?
- Now we Adventists are waiting for Christ to come as a King, is there a chance that we are mistaken again about the nature of his coming?
Suffering Before Glory
- Is it possible that we might lose some potentially good leaders if we make them suffer too long (forty years in the case of Moses) before promoting them?
- How does suffering improve a person for leadership?
A Church is Born
- Since most founders of religions do not intend to establish anew religion, but only reform the old, how does a new religion begin?
- If all the members of a body convert together can they remain in that building?
- What does it mean to be ashamed of the gospel? Are we ever guilty of this, and why?