Section 3 (Gal 2:10-21) Questions

[jlkoch]

Brothers,

I would like your assistance on a project that may come out of our
Galatians Bible Study. Five brothers have been comissioned to develop
Bible Study Material for our church.
(Dewayne Dill, Fred Witzig, Justin Koch, Dan Koch, Jason Dotterer and
Wayne Banwart correspondent to communications committee) Some of this
work will be small "repackaging" of topical presentations; some will
be material designed to feed into small groups getting together for
many weeks such as we are doing in Galatians.

I would like to take our study questions and turn them into a study
package for Galatians. As I see it, there are two key features to
accomplish this:
1) Good historical context summary that is clear and concise to
the pertinant points of what is needed to correctly interpret the
text, and
2) Solid questions for each section that are thought-provoking,
answerable, contextually relevant, and application oriented.

To do this, I would like to ask each of you to begin "scoring" the
questions that we ask each session and come away with a top ~10
questions. There will be a few categories that the ten will fit:
a) Context
1) Questions that help the student to think through heart of
author's intent and point he is trying to make
2) Quesitons that will help the student put the passage into
historical biblical context (other passages)
b) Interpretation
1) Questions that bring the passage to relevant principles that
are timeless and applicable to all
c) Application
1) Questions that cause the student to ask, "What does this
mean to me and my peers at this time?"
2) Questions that cause the student to gaze into the perfect
law of liberty and reflect on what the Lord is speaking to me
personally.

Agree?

To that end, I don't think we need to re-invent the wheel. A brief
google serch produced no less than 20-30 questions for each section
that we are going through. I will begin posting some of those
qeustions and would entreat each of you to do the same. Both
questinos you find on previously developed material and questions you
come up with yourself as you study the passage.

The notion that there is no such thing as a bad question is true, but
some questions are much better than others.
Is there a way we can set up a google documents and have a spreadsheet
for each of us to input questions and score them?

Lastly, I would like to suggest that we may need to add a bit more
structure to our evening sessions. My thought is that we would agree
on 5-10 questions ahead of time that we are going to tackle and then
march through them top to bottom.

Here is a first deposition from a online study guide I found.
http://www.padfield.com/acrobat/nt/galatian.pdf

1) Why did Paul have to rebuke Peter?
2) How could brethren today commit the same sin as Peter?
3) Was there a chance of division when Paul rebuked Peter? (Why?)
4) What affect did Peter's sin have upon other Christians? (What was
his sin?)
5) How are we justified "by faith in Jesus Christ?"
6) What is the "Law" referred to in Galatians 2:16?
7) How could Paul "build again those things" he once destroyed?
8) How was Paul "crucified with Christ?" How are we?
9) How did Christ "live" in Paul? (cf Col 3:16)
10) How could one "set aside" the grace of God?


Thankful for each of you,
Justin