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2.4 Let’s Practice…

1. On what journey of Paul was the church at Ephesus established?

2. Who was the pastor at Ephesus when Paul wrote him a letter?

3. What is the major purpose for Paul writing to the pastor at Ephesus?

4. What important WORD is used multiple times to emphasis it’s importance in ministry?

5. Why is truth important?

6. What is the important word that should be emphasized when sharing truth to another?

7. What does it mean that Jesus is our hope?

8. What is the primary point of sound doctrine?

2.5 Let’s Personalize this Lesson…

Activity: Do you ever tell a lie? Most people do in some form or fashion. Sometimes a lie
can be just telling somebody something that is NOT true. We call that a bold-faced lie. But
sometimes a lie can be telling someone something but exaggerating the facts to emphasize
a point. This would be like going fishing and telling someone you caught a large fish, when
really it was not all that large. Another way pastors can lie is to take a verse in Scripture
and use it to support an idea he may have, when the verse really does not do that at all. I had a pastor
who told me that that if I was not tithing as in the Old Testament Mosaic Law, that I was robbing God.
He used Malachi 3:8-10 as his “proof” text:

8 Will a man rob God? yet ye rob me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes
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and offerings. Ye are cursed with the curse; for ye rob me, even this whole nation. Bring ye the
whole tithe into the store-house, that there may be food in my house, and prove me now herewith,
saith Jehovah of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that
there shall not be room enough to receive it.
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