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SCC University. What we believe and why we believe it!. Study Tactics. 3 Basics Stages Observation Interpretation Application. Study Tactics – The Sentence . Observations: Practice Ephesians 4:1-7 1) Repetition : words/phrases that are repeated

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  1. SCC University What we believe and why we believe it!

  2. Study Tactics • 3 Basics Stages • Observation • Interpretation • Application

  3. Study Tactics – The Sentence • Observations: Practice Ephesians 4:1-7 • 1) Repetition: words/phrases that are repeated • 2) Contrasts: differences - ideas, individuals, and/or items • 3) Comparisons: similarities - ideas, individuals, and/or items • 4) Lists: more than two items • 5) Cause and effect: may be more than one effect from a single cause • 6) Figures of Speech: expressions that convey images • 7) Conjunctions: terms that join units • 8) Verbs: past, present, future; active/passive; imperative • 9) Pronouns: identify the antecedent for each pronoun

  4. Study Tactics – The Sentence • Observation • 8) Verbs – Where all the action is • Identify what kind of verb it is • Past, present, or future? • I went, I go, I will go? • Progressive (continued action) or Imperative? • I was going, I am going, I will be going or GO! • Ex.Ephesians 4:1-3 • Active vs Passive • Paul’s letters: Passive = God’s action, Active = Our action. Ex.Colossians 3:1

  5. Study Tactics – The Paragraph • Paragraph Study: • 1) General & Specifics • Galatians 5:16 - But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. • Gal 5:19-21 = flesh, & Gal 5:22-23 = Spirit • 2) Q & A • Rhetorical question used to advance an argument • Romans 6:1 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? • Answer - Romans 6:2-4 • Homework– Identify Questions in Mark 2:1 – 3:6

  6. Study Tactics – The Paragraph • Paragraph Study: • 3) Dialogue • This may seem obvious that dialogue is going to be present in a narrative.But this does not mean we should simply read through it. • Stop and ask important questions • Who are the participants – who is speaking to who • Setting: Other people around? Are they active or passive participants? • Nature: argument, discussion, lecture, etc… • Emotional terms – Tone (ex. Gal 4:12-16) • Homework– Is there a dialogue in Mark 2:1 – 3:6?

  7. Paul’s Preaching's – A study on how to share the gospel

  8. Paul’s Preaching's – A study on how to share the gospel • 1st Recorded Sermon: Acts 13:16-43 • 16-25, 26-33, & 34-43 • Sermon to Gentiles: Acts 17:22-31 • 22-31 • Sermon to a King: Acts 26:1-29 • 2-11, 12-18, 19-23, & 24-29

  9. Paul’s Preaching's – A study on how to share the gospel • 1st Recorded Sermon: Acts 13:16-43 • 4So, being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia, and from there they sailed to Cyprus. 5 When they arrived at Salamis, they proclaimed the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews. • 14but they went on from Perga and came to Antioch in Pisidia. And on the Sabbath day they went into the synagogue and sat down.

  10. Paul’s Preaching's – A study on how to share the gospel • 1st Recorded Sermon: Acts 13:16-43 • 16-25, 26-33, & 34-43 • Sermon to Gentiles: Acts 17:22-31 • 22-31

  11. Paul’s Preaching's – A study on how to share the gospel • Sermon to Gentiles : Acts 17:22-31 • Acts 17:18-19 Epicurean and Stoic • Epicurus (342–270 b.c.) taught that the purpose of life was pleasure and freedom from pain, passions, and fears. • Cypriot Zeno (340–265 b.c.), founder of Stoicism, stressed living in harmony with nature and depending on reason and other self-sufficient powers. • Pantheism • A doctrine identifying the Deity with the universe and its phenomena. • Belief in and worship of all gods. • Both schools stressed the quest for peace of mind.

  12. Paul’s Preaching's – A study on how to share the gospel • 1st Recorded Sermon: Acts 13:16-43 • 16-25, 26-33, & 34-43 • Sermon to Gentiles: Acts 17:22-31 • 22-31 • Sermon to a King: Acts 26:1-29 • 2-11, 12-18, 19-23, & 24-29

  13. Paul’s Preaching's – A study on how to share the gospel • Sermon to a King: Acts 26:1-29 • King Herod Agrippa II • Son of Agrippa I and great-grandson of Herod the Great • Herod the Great = ordered the killing of children in Bethlehem • Herod Agrippa I = persecuted the church (12:1–23), • Herod Agrippa II (a.d. 27–c. 100) had an intimate knowledge of Jewish matters. • Influential in Jewish religious affairs because he had political authority to appoint the high priest • Agrippa II was unpopular with the Jews because of his incestuous relationship with his sister Bernice

  14. Paul’s Preaching's – A study on how to share the gospel • 1st Recorded Sermon: Acts 13:16-43 • 16-25, 26-33, & 34-43 • Sermon to Gentiles: Acts 17:22-31 • 22-31 • Sermon to a King: Acts 26:1-29 • 2-11, 12-18, 19-23, & 24-29

  15. Paul’s Preaching's – A study on how to share the gospel • Based on these readings what patterns do we see that give us guidance on how we should share the Gospel? • 1) The importance of preaching the repentance of sin! • Points to Jesus as the only way

  16. Paul’s Preaching's – A study on how to share the gospel • 1st Recorded Sermon: Acts 13:16-43 • Repentance • 24 Before his coming, John had proclaimed a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel. • 38 Let it be known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you, 39 and by him everyone who believes is freed from everything from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses. • 40 Beware, therefore, lest what is said in the Prophets should come about: 41“‘Look, you scoffers,be astounded and perish; for I am doing a work in your days,a work that you will not believe, even if one tells it to you.’” Habakkuk 1:15

  17. Paul’s Preaching's – A study on how to share the gospel • Sermon to Gentiles: Acts 17:22-31 • Repentance • 30The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent, 31 because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.”

  18. Paul’s Preaching's – A study on how to share the gospel • Sermon to a King: Acts 26:1-29 • Repentance • 18 …to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’ • 19 “Therefore, O King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision, 20 but declared first to those in Damascus, then in Jerusalem and throughout all the region of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds in keeping with their repentance.

  19. Paul’s Preaching's – A study on how to share the gospel • Based on these readings what patterns do we see that give us guidance on how we should share the Gospel? • 1) The importance of preaching the repentance of sin! • Points to Jesus as the only way • 2) Speak to the crowd

  20. Paul’s Preaching's – A study on how to share the gospel • Speaking to the Crowd • Know the crowd • Sermon 1: The Religious • Know the truth – USE THE TRUTH • Connecting John with Jesus (v24 & 38) • Old Testament references that point to Jesus (v33-35) • The danger of seeing & not believing (v41) • What might this look like in our day? • Be prepared to argue against “works” • Be prepared to point falsities

  21. Paul’s Preaching's – A study on how to share the gospel • Speaking to the Crowd • Know the crowd • Sermon 2: The Non-religious or pantheist • Understand where they are coming from • v28a: Probably from Epimenides of Crete; v28b Aratus's poem “Phainomena” • Be prepared to make a case for Christ from their point of view • Thinks Psalms 19:1 The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.

  22. Paul’s Preaching's – A study on how to share the gospel • Speaking to the Crowd • Know the crowd • Sermon 2: The Non-religious or pantheist • Do not be afraid of sharing the tough stuff • 17:30 The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent, 31because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.” • Do not be afraid of failure here! (17:32 & 26:24) • 32Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked. But others said, “We will hear you again about this.

  23. Paul’s Preaching's – A study on how to share the gospel • Based on these readings what patterns do we see that give us guidance on how we should share the Gospel? • 1) The importance of preaching the repentance of sin! • Points to Jesus as the only way • 2) Speak to the crowd (know the crowd) • 3) Seize every opportunity

  24. Paul’s Preaching's – A study on how to share the gospel • Speaking to the Crowd • Seize every opportunity • Pray to be open to opportunities: Acts 16 • 27 When the jailer woke and saw that the prison doors were open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped. 28 But Paul cried with a loud voice, “Do not harm yourself, for we are all here.” 29 And the jailercalled for lights and rushed in, and trembling with fear he fell down before Paul and Silas. 30 Then he brought them out and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”31 And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”32 And they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all who were in his house. 

  25. Paul’s Preaching's – A study on how to share the gospel • Based on these readings what patterns do we see that give us guidance on how we should share the Gospel? • 1) The importance of preaching the repentance of sin! • Points to Jesus as the only way • 2) Speak to the crowd (know the crowd) • 3) Seize every opportunity • 4) Know what we are NOT DOING

  26. Paul’s Preaching's – A study on how to share the gospel • Know what we are not doing • What is our mode or maybe better what is our attitude toward the situation? • 17 So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who happened to be there. • Reasoned - διελέγετο (dielegeto)Verb - Imperfect Indicative Middle or Passive - to say thoroughly, i.e. Discuss – Dialogue • Acts 16: 13-14

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