The workshop was based on a discussino of questions that were asked by the fellowship.
The purpose of the night was to challenge our faith and to question Why do we believe what we believe, and are we sure of what we believe as true. We do not have all the answers, nor do we expect to. We do not claim to be 100% accurate in our responses, so please do not expect such.
If there are more questions on the answer please email genesis.t3c@gmail.com
Questions include:
Personal Questions:
1) Why do you come to church on Sundays?
2) Why do you come to fellowship on Fridays?
3) What does fellowship mean to you?
4) Why should we serve in the church?
5) Why are there so little people willing to serve?
6) Why are we so afraid to share the gospel?
7) How do we find our spiritual gifts?
Questions about God:
8) Doctrine of the Trinity: Is it really necessary? What role does it serve and what are the biblical grounds for this doctrine? Why isn’t it ever mentioned in the bible?
9) Why would an all-powerful, just God create sinful humans, but put the responsibility and blame on mankind?
10) Why would God put a tree of knowledge of good and evil knowing in advance that they would eat from it? Then, punishing them for their disobedience?
11) Why is scripture limited (reformists) when God’s communication to humankind should be limitless?
Questions about the Bible:
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12) Why did God continue to harden pharaoh’s heart?
13) Why did Jephthah have to sacrifice his daughter while Abraham got to keep Isaac?
14) Why did God permit Lot’s daughters to get him drunk and have sex with him? How is that right?
Miscellaneous questions:
15) Will we still remember our earthly relationships when we are in heaven? Will we remember the past?
16) Why should God make people knowing they are going to hell forever?
17) Can God make a rock so big that even He Himself cannot hold it?
18) Why is there evil and suffering in the world?
19) If everything needs a creator, then who or what created God?
Answers generated by the fellowship:
1) Why do you come to church on Sundays?
- To learn and grow spiritually
- Receive wisdom
- Acts à apostles teaching, need the fellowship, breaking bread, eating together, and praying
- “When 2 or 3 gather in His name, we will all be in the presence of God”
- Is attending church really necessary, is it okay to be a Christian and not attend church?
- Place of worship, a place to get spiritually fed
- A gathering is an act of worship
- God wired us in this way
- Hebrews 10:24-25 “don’t give up and meeting with each other”
- Accountability, worshipping
2) Why do you come to fellowship on Fridays?
- Fellowship and church is to build-up one another
- For unity in Christ
- Ephesians 4:13-14 “if we reach unity, we will no longer be infants”
- When twigs are put together, they won’t break as easily, there is support
- Tradition aspect à if we just attend church on Sunday then we just get fed and this is more of an individual thin
- Fellowship can be outside of Sunday where we are not restricted to just worship
- Attending church is important because it not only sharpens your spiritual growth and wisdom, it is about the accountability, as iron sharpens iron
- Fellowship is more of an opportunity for application, where we can show what we have learn and share what we have learned
3) What does fellowship mean to you?
- Can fellowship happen everyday too?
- What differentiates a fellowship we have now vs. the fellowship of the ring
- Why are we here on Fridays? What is our focus of fellowship?
- To sharpen each other Proverbs
- It isn’t all about receiving and fellowship can include contributing to the growth of others in the fellowship
4) Why should we serve in the church? 5)Why are there so little people willing to serve?
- Serving in church may not always mean that you have a strong or good relationship with God, serving is a part of it but not all of it
- Why should we serve? A: we serve out of love, to give back what the Lord has done for us. It is a way of showing how we love others. Through serving others, we can bring Glory back to Him that we may understand God’s heart more.
- There are different ways of serving: it isn’t just about going on missions. God will still give credit to those who are serving behind the scenes
- Maintaining your own spiritual growth can be serving as well
- Jesus’ great commission “Go and make disciples of all nations, teaching them to obey what I have commanded you” In terms of serving we can measure this to the great commission. i.e. are we bringing people to Christ.
- Serving: praying, evangelism, brining others to Christ
- What happens we all of the people are just sitting on the sidelines? Are we just doing it for the sake of doing it and not growing from it? …. What drives you to serve? Why is it you want to serve? What have you been doing with what God is teaching you or have blessed you with?
- Are we serving out of the overflow of God’s love or we doing it just for the sake of doing it? We can ask God to equip and open up opportunities for leaders to step up because God should be the driving force behind the work that we do
- Why are people not stepping up to serve? Do people lack faith in what they are doing? (specifically in the church)
- Although people may not be serving in the church, maybe they are serving elsewhere. Where the need is and where God is calling you serve there.
- God doesn’t need our service, He can work without people serving
- Do you trust that God enough to serve where God is calling you? God could be asking us if we have enough faith in Him that to lead people.
- Be realistic, God called people to be at certain places and others to other places. Trust God to work through whatever area is lacking people
- Lack of initiative, people afraid to step out of their comfort zone. If we see that someone has potential and you see that God is working through them just ask them to serve in some capacity. God will provide people to help
- Encouragement is important, just to see how God works in people’s lives
- Are we as a church struggling with the issue of obedience? (there is no common solution but all we can do is give it up to God because God can work around the issue) we need to be careful
- The need to challenge each other to live out the faith, and to not lose sight of this. If we can’t spur others to help in the small ways, how can we spur others to help in the big ways
Questions about God:
1) Doctrine of Trinity
- God is a relational God
- John 15:9
- Are they equal but different?
- Are they the same?
- A way for understanding God’s nature
- 1 Cor 12:4-6, Matthew 28:19
- Is the doctrine there for those who don’t understand?
- Is the doctrine just a tool for understanding the nature of God
- Comparing the bible vs. a study bible
2) Why would an all-powerful, just God create sinful humans, but put the responsibility and blame on mankind?
- God didn’t create sinful humans, but He made humans with choices
- Adam and eve were created good
3) Why would God put a tree of evil and then
- Not fruit is magical, but of choice of knowledge, to choose God’s way or other way
- Everything is permissible, but because God loves us there’s always a way out
- God can’t create another perfect being so he’s creating another god….
4) Why do God continues to harden Pharaoh’s heart?
5) Why does Jabah have to sacrifice his daughter while Abraham could have Issac?
6) Why does God permit Lot’s daughter to be drunken and have sex and says it’s right?
- It all goes back to choices
- God allows a lot of things to happen
7) Would we still rmb our earth relationships while we’re in heaven?
- We don’t know lol
8) Why should God make ppl, knowing they will go to hell forever?
- 20 mintues talk of CHOICE. Lol
- Illusion of choices
- Though God knows our end results, doesn’t mean we don’t have choices
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