Church
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Compare 1 Corinthians 14 and 1 Timothy 2 on women speaking and teaching, attending to local circumstances, literary context, and disputed interpretations.
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Reflect on the church’s responsibility for judgment, discipline, and reconciliation, and what happens when authority is separated from faithful obedience.
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What do binding and loosing mean in Matthew? Explore their setting in community responsibility, judgment, and the exercise of delegated authority.
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Read Acts 15 as a dispute about Gentile belonging and community life, considering what the Jerusalem decision required and how discipleship continued.
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What would a fuller apostolic faith look like today? Reflect on worship, community, obedience, and the practices that form Christian life.
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Contrast a thin account of Christianity with a faith shaped by community, practice, and responsibility, drawing on the life of the earliest churches.
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What does the New Testament mean by saints? Explore hagioi, holiness, and belonging to God’s people beyond later ideas of exceptional religious status.
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Why did Paul confront Peter at Antioch? Read Galatians 2 in its setting of shared meals, Gentile inclusion, and conduct consistent with the gospel.
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How did the apostles carry Jesus’ yoke into the life of the churches? Explore discipleship as shared practice, instruction, and accountable obedience.
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What did early Christian life involve? Explore work, shared meals, worship, mutual care, and the community practices that shaped the first believers.
