Discussions on some of the questions raised by the Sunday School Students.

1. SENIORS SUNDAY
SCHOOL 2019-2020
QUESTIONS

2. 1. PROCESS OF GETTING SAVED? HOW DOES IT
FEEL?
Process
• Realization
• Only God alone is Good (Mark 10:17, John 3:3)
• Awareness of our sin
• Repentance
• Deciding to change mind (Disciples)
• Confession (Romans 10: 7-10)
• Baptism (Acts 2:38)
• Reliance
• Growing in Christ
• Living as holy nation of God (1 Peter 2:9)
How does it feel?
• Joy (Zaccheus, John 15:11)
• Freedom & Truth ( Gal 5:1, 13, John 8:32)
• Feel secure and justified (John 3:16, Gal
3:16)
• Identity in Christ (1 Peter 2: 18, 19)
• New Motivation to Obey (2 Co 2:5:14,15)
Holiness, Sacrifice and Atonement

3. 2. WHY VARIOUS CHRISTIAN DENOMINATIONS AND
CHOOSING THE RIGHT ONE
Problem
• Jesus was worried (John 17:23)
• Divisions prevalent from the very early days of
Church (Corinthian church)
Causes
• People
• Free Will & Intellect (Eg: Political Ideologies,
Denominations in other religions)
• Personality Traits (Emotional, Analytical)
• Traditions
• Sin
• Wrong Interpretation of Bible
Denominations in Hinduism, Islam.
Choosing the Right one
• God’s word
• In line with word of God about Trinity,
Salvation, Resurrection etc
• Practices followed in the Bible and early
Christians
• Breaking of Bread (Acts 2:42)
• Fellowship (Acts 2:42)
• Teaching (Acts 2:42)
• Local Churches (Gal 1:1, Eph 1:1 etc)
• Church Leadership (Titus 1)
• Truth shall set you free (John 8:31, 32)

4. 3. WHY BIBLE GIVES HIGHER STAND TO HUSBANDS
THAN WIVES?
• At creation
• Suitable helper(Ezer), not assistant – Gen 2:20
• Creation order does not equate to significance
• One Flesh– Gen 2:23,24
• Fall
• Your desire will be for your husband – Gen
3:16
• Husband will rule over wife – Gen 3:16
• Rise of Patriarchal culture & Abuse
• Jesus & God’s kingdom
• Significance of Women in Christianity
• Jesus’s interaction with Women (Samaritan woman, adulterous
woman, Mary Magdalene)
• Women supported Jesus’s Ministry – Luke 8:1-3
• First witness of Jesus’s resurrection
• Women supporting Disciples – Phil 4:2-3
• Reversal of the fall
• One in Christ Jesus – Gal 3:28
• Husband & Wife becoming one flesh – Eph 5:25-33
• Relationship – Eph 5:25
• Husband & Wife – Christ and Church
• Love & Submission : Eph 5:25
• Ministry and Functioning – 1 Co 11:1-6
• Husband & Wife – Father & Christ
• Headship & Authority – Creation Order (1 Tim 2:9-15)
Suitable Helper, Women in Christianity, Desiring God

5. 4. INNER ENERGY AND AWARENESS OF THIS
ENERGY MAKES US SUCCESSFUL?
• Introduction
• New Age Spiritual movement
• Advocated by Sadguru, Oprah Winfrey, Deepak Chopra etc
• Blends the theology of pantheistic Eastern religions with
practices from Western occultism.
• Starts with simple & innocent Yoga practices and advances
into occultism.
• Root
• Pantheism – we are God.
• Find this inner energy within us and master it.
• Consciousness awakening through Yoga, Meditation etc or
Enlightenment
• Christianity Vs Pantheism
• Taking out the absolutes, truth is relative.
• God – Vague concept, Impersonal force/energy within us and reunite
with that
• Union Vs Communion
• Abstract Vs Solid relationship with the creator
• Devil’s offer to Adam and Eve – You will become God.
• Can it make us successful?
• Focus on stress, anxieties, happiness etc.
• Coherence with the reality
• No Absolute Moral Laws
• No Desires for Nirvana
• Experience & Well being rather than Truth
• Definition of success
• Smooth Ride or Safe landing?
The new age movement, New Age Deception Testimony, Princeton Open Forum – Ravi Zacharias, Uncovering
New Spirituality

6. WHY IS THERE SO MUCH SIN IN THE WORLD?
• What is sin?
• Lawlessness (1 John 3:4)
• Rebellion against God (Deuteronomy 9:7)
• First sin at Eden (Genesis 3)
• False promises
• You will become like God
• Knowing Good and Evil
• Why is there so much sin in this world ?
• Why do you sin?
• Born in Sin (Romans 5:12, Psalm 51:5)
• Our nature ( Romans 7:14-24 , Gal 5:16-24)
• Solution
• God stopping sin
• Violation of free will.
• God is love, Freewill & Love
• Jesus Christ
• Propitiation for the sin of the world (1 John 2:2)
Why do I keep sinning? Why God doesn’t stop evil? How God allow evil to exist? Sin

7. WHAT HAPPENS IN THE 2ND COMING OF JESUS?
• Why Second Coming?
• Culmination of the Kingdom of God, Phil 3:20
• To be with the king : John 14:3, 1 Thess 4:13-
18
• Rewards and Justice : Matt 16:27
• Renewed World : 1 Peter 1:3-5, Romans 8:22,23
• What happens?
• Gathering of believers dead & alive also known
as rapture 1 Thess 4:16,17
• Binding of Satan & Millennium Rev 20:1-3
• Release of Satan & War with Satan Rev 20:7-9
• White throne Judgment: Rev 20:11-15
• The New Heaven and New Earth : Rev 21:1-5
Article from GotQuestions.org, Heaven and Earth, Rev 21- Tim Keller, Revelation Overview,
Apocalypse

8. FRIENDSHIP
• Friendship
• Unique Relationship
• You too (Commonality)
• Shoulder to shoulder looking at the same thing.
• Friendship begins from a common point
• Truthful
• Faithful are the wounds of a friend, profuse are the kisses of an enemy” (Prov. 27:6).
• Prov 27:9 "Oil and perfume make the heart glad, and the sweetness of a friend comes
from his earnest counsel"
• Nearness
• One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks
closer than a brother. (Prov 18:24)
• A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity. ( Prov 17: 17)
• Mutual Building
• Proverbs 13:20 He who walks with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools
suffers harms.
• Proverbs 27:17 As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.
• Proverbs 22:24-25 Do not make friends with a hot-tempered man, do not associate
with one easily angered, or you may learn his ways and get yourself ensnared.
• Girl Friend / Boy Friend – Is it wrong?
• Four loves (By CS Lewis)
• Storge : Love by familiarity by chance
• Philia : Friendship love
• Eros : Romantic love
• Agape : Love that doesn’t change based on the
lover or circumstances. (God’s love)
• Right or Wrong?
• Romantic love is normally face to face, absorbed in
each other,
• Depends on to what position you elevate it to.
• Dangers
• Driven by passion
• Overdesire = Idolatry : Colossians 3:4