3 Simple Steps Context Questions Ask & Answer Apply The intended application Make it personal

We’ll start with asking Questions One of our problems is that we don’t ask enough questions. And without asking questions, we don’t come up with the right answers (though we think we have the answers)

Some Examples of why asking questions is so important: Genesis 1:1 What is the first thing we learn in the Bible (besides the fact that God is)? Matthew 22:15-22 (Pay taxes to Caesar?) If the man had not been a skeptic, what would his next question have been?

A professor had his class ask questions about John 3:16 – how many questions do you think they came up with? Over 800

MINI-MYSTERIES You May ONLY ask questions that can be answered with a “YES” or a “NO”. You want to figure out why/how something happened If you have already heard this mini- mystery (in other words – you know the answer) – you may NOT ask questions, give hints, or say the answer. Any Questions?

There are 2 dead people in a cabin on the side of a mountain. A man goes to a mall. He parks the car. He rolls up all the windows and locks every door. He leaves his briefcase in the locked car. When he came back, the briefcase was gone, the doors were locked, and nothing was broken.

There are 3 key steps in studying the Bible. What are they?

Let’s Study a Song The First 2 Questions Who is talking? Who are they talking to?

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