STUDY QUESTIONS FOR “Preaching”

1. What did Paul mean when he told Timothy in 2 Timothy 4:2-4, “Be ready in season and out of season”?

2. According to Romans 1:16, what is the Gospel?

3. What, according to James 1:21, can “the implanted word” do for us after we have heard it preached and have obeyed it?

4. What point were Peter and John making when they said, “For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard” (Acts 4:20)?

5. According to 2 Timothy 1:7, what must proclaimers of God’s Word not possess?

6. What did Paul tell Timothy in Titus 2:1 that preachers should preach?

7. What did Peter mean when he wrote, “If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God” (1 Pet. 4:11)?

8. According to Ephesians 4:15, how and what are preachers to preach?

9. What did God tell Jonah to preach (Jonah 3:1-2)?

 10. How does Paul’s question in Galatians 4:16 (“Have I therefore become your enemy be­cause I tell you the truth?”) affect those who hear the Gospel preached?

 11. According to Luke 11:1, what should our attitude be as we hear the Word of God be­ing preached?

 12. What promise did God make in Isaiah 55:11?

 13. Explain the connection between Mark 4:24 and Luke 8:18.

 14. What attitude did Samuel portray that we, too, would do well to portray (1 Sam. 3:9)?

 15. What, according to Acts 17:11, should we as listeners do when he hear preaching or teaching?

 16. What did Paul tell Titus to do in Titus 2:1?

 17. According to Jonah 3:2, what message did God want Jonah to preach to the people of Nineveh?

 18. According to 1 Corinthians 1:21, what “foolishness” does God use to save people?

 19. What did God tell the prophet Jeremiah in Jeremiah 1:9-10?

 20. What important question did King Zedekiah ask in Jeremiah 37:17?

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