The Kingdom of God, Student Workbook, SW02

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ministry. The following questions may help you form your own, more specific and critical questions. * Is it possible to claim salvation in Christ while disdaining or rejecting the Church? Is it a package deal - in other words, if you get Jesus, must you also take the Church as well? * What do you do if you minister among people who have never experienced the Church as it is described in Scripture? How do you help people come to experience the Church as God describes it? * Is it right to tie the Kingdom so closely to the life and health of the Church? In what ways is the Kingdom demonstrated separate from the Church? * To what extent can we expect the Holy Spirit to show signs and wonders in the ministries represented here, among our student’s churches and ministries? What conditions, if any, are necessary to fulfill in order to see the power of God connected to our ministry of the Word? * How do we overcome the violence, pain, and difficulty of the city as the agent of the Kingdom? It seems as if the city is so big and we are so small - how do we change our attitude about ourselves and what we do? * What is the relationship between the invasion of God’s rule into the city and the powers of darkness that hold it in bondage? What must we do to be aware of the specific ways that the devil holds city people in bondage? * Is it possible to be in the Church and yet not be under God’s rule? If so, how? * What are the steps to see revival come to a church or Christian community which does not appear to be giving powerful witness to God’s rule in its life and witness? * What role do leaders play in seeing the Church become a locus and agent of the Kingdom? * Churches can become so ingrown and fragmented - how do you take a biblical vision and share it among churches so as to challenge them to give witness to the Kingdom of God together ?

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