I Pet 3:15, Getting ready to defend our hope
Week-2 Handout … for the class-session on 04/28/21
NOTE: We will refer to both Week-1 and Week-2 Handouts during this session.
Session-2 outline
Opening prayer
( 5 mins) Devotional thoughts
( 5 mins) Strengths & weaknesses of the chaining methodology being used in
this class (unfinished business from week-1)
( 5 mins) One general principle applicable to all methodologies of
“defending our hope”
(15 mins) Interactive-exercise related to “Spiritual Authority” … designed to
enhance our individual lists of texts by a cooperative blending
of the starter-lists from every participant
( 5 mins) Brief discussion of enhancement to the “chains-lists” that are
stored inside the back-cover of our sharing-Bibles.
(See page 4 from the Week-1 Handout)
( 5 mins) Homework for next week and any remaining questions/comments
Devo Subject: The significance of I Pet 3: 13-14 on the original usage of our central text (I Pet 3:15)
Read Is 8: 12-13, & compare it with the OT quote in I Pet 3:14B.
What does I Pet 3:14 indicate regarding the circumstances of the
original audience of Peter’s letter?
What then is the significance of the conjunction “but” at the start
of our central text?
Who were the children of Israel not to fear (Is 8)?
Who were the children of Israel supposed to fear (Is 8)?
What is the normal significance of “the LORD” in OT texts?
How does that compare to its normal usage in NT texts?
Strengths & weaknesses of the chaining methodology being used in this class …
Strengths?
Weaknesses?
One general principle applicable to all methodologies of “defending our hope”
A ______ without its ___________ is susceptible to becoming a ______-_____
How can we apply this principle to the chaining methodology?
Homework for Week-3: Make your starter-list of texts for both
“A Universal Problem” and “Universal Availability”.
(Note: “Doubling up” now will enable us to deal with all 5 sub-Topics!)
Main-Topic: Defending our Hope
Sub-Topic: Spiritual Authority (Note: As we discussed last week, this sub-topic will be used
at the start of many, if not all, Bible studies.)
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Whole sections marked off by asterisks are only for purposes of the class. These sections can be deleted from your lists of verses for sub-topics … unless you just want them as reminders of the process you used to produce your starter-list and your enhanced-list.
The 3-step process for building
the list of texts (v-links) for the Sub-topic “Spiritual Authority” (h-link-1)
_1 Phase 1 of the Homework: Find as many applicable texts as you (personally) can
_2 Interactive session the next week: Everyone shares his own findings & adds others’ to his list
NOTE: If a text on your starter-list has neither an ‘x’ nor a check-mark, then the class
has not yet been made aware that the (unmarked) text is on your starter-list!
_3 Phase 2 of the Homework – SEQUENCE the enhanced-list in a way that you could comfortably share
NOTES: The data in the example that follows corresponds to the bottom of page-2 & top of page-3
on the Handout from Week-1.
Each row of Column-1 will start as a BLANK. When you, or anyone else in the class, shares
that text during the Interactive exercise, you will put an ‘x’ or a check-mark there.
At the end of the Interactive exercise, every verse of every participant’s starter-list
should be marked … to indicate that it has been shared with the class!
The remainder of this page represents one way you could organize a WORD document to deal
with the first two steps of the 3-step process described above.
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Starter-list built during Phase 1 of the Homework
Shared? Text key thought
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__ Mt 28:18 All authority has been given to Christ Jesus
------------------ End of texts you hypothetically found in Homework phase-1 --------------------
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(EVERYTHING from here-on-down was shared by another member, because it was not on the
starter-list which was produced during your Homework-Phase-1)
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Additions to your list as a result of Interactive exercise
x II Tim 3:16 All Scripture is inspired by God
x Prov 3:5 Trust the LORD, not your own understanding
Enhanced-list built during Phase 2 of the Homework
Text Key Thought
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II Tim 3:16 All Scripture is inspired by God
Mt 28:18 All authority has been given to Christ Jesus
The following available texts related to this sub-topic are ones that you chose NOT to use
in the main-body chaining within your “sharing”-Bible.
Prov 3:5 Trust the LORD, not your own understanding
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Can you think of one-or-more reasons you might decide NOT to include a text that was shared by someone during the Interactive exercise for a sub-topic (as illustrated with Prov 3:5, above)?
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