Focus on Reproduction, Student Workbook, SW12

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F O C U S O N R E P R O D U C T I O N

a. 1 Tim. 3.2-7

b. 1 Tim. 3.12

c. Titus 1.6

(1) Leaders were always mentioned in the plural.

(2) Leaders were always associated with households.

d. Women are mentioned as heads of households and often before their husbands (e.g., Lydia, Nympha, and Priscilla); (does this suggest that women were in charge of the churches in their houses ?)

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3. Evangelism, worship, fellowship and discipleship occurred in the oikos .

a. The household was the place of the church’s ongoing life together as a community of the Lord.

b. Preaching of the Good News took place through the “households.”

(1) Acts 5.42

(2) Acts 20.20

c. Baptism of new believers occurred in the oikos .

(1) Acts 16.15

(2) 1 Cor. 1.16

d. The Lord’s table (breaking of bread), Acts 2.46