STUDY QUESTIONS FOR “the cowboy church”

1. For what did Jesus Christ pray in John 17:21?

2. According to the instruction contained in this lesson, what is the general thrust (or pur­pose) of the Cowboy Church?

3. Where did the Cowboy Church start?

4. According to Isaiah 2:2-4, where was Christ’s church prophesied to church?

5. According to Acts 2, where did Christ’s church actually start?

6. According to Matthew 16:18, how many churches did Christ say He would build?

7. According to Acts 2:47, was the church of Christ in existence in the first century A.D?

8. According to Ephesians 1:22-23, who is the head of the one church that Christ established?

9. According to Matthew 28:18, how much authority does Christ have over the church?

 10. Why, according to Acts 20:28, does Christ have the authority over the church that He does?

 11. According to the Cowboy Church’s doctrine of salvation, how is a person saved?

 12. According to James 2:24, can “faith only” save anyone?

 13. The Cowboy Church teaches that the miraculous baptism of the Holy Spirit is still avail­able for people today. Yet in 1 Corinthians 13:8-10 the apostle taught that when that which “is perfect” arrives, the miraculous will pass away. What, according to the teach­ing contained in this lesson (especially James 1:25) is “the perfect”?

 14. The Cowboy Church teaches a “health-and-wealth” Gospel. What does the Bible teach in 2 Timothy 3:12 that contradicts such teaching?

 15. The Cowboy Church teaches that a person should “accept Jesus as Savior” (and thus be saved), and then be baptized in order to obey commands found within the New Testament. According to Jesus’ teaching in Mark 16:15, as well as Peter’s teaching in Acts 2:38 and 1 Peter 3:21, does salvation occur before baptism?

 16. How, according to what the prophet Ananias told Saul of Tarsus (Acts 22:16), does a person get rid of his sins?

 17. What, according to 1 Peter 3:21, does baptism do for a person?

 18. According to the teaching of the New Testament, what steps must a person take in order to be saved.

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