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Study Questions

Week 3

This whole passage (2:1-10) describes a significant meeting that Paul was involved in. Where did it take place? Was it in public or private? (Verses 1-2)

Who were the influential people that Paul met with? (Verse 9

Who came to spy on the meeting? (Verse 4)

What did Paul set before the influencial Apostles? (Verse 2)

Why did he set this before them? (Verse 2)

Did the Apostles require Titus to be circumcised? (Verse 3)

What did the influential Apostles add to what Paul was preaching? (Verse 6)

What did the influencial Apostles see or percieve about Paul? (2 things...look in verses 7 and 9)

What did Peter James and John give to Paul and Barnabas?

WEEK 2

Verses 11-12

What is similar between verse 1 of this chapter

and verses 11-12?

How did Paul receive the Gospel message?

Verse 13        

What words did Paul use to describe the way he used

to persecute the church?

Verse 14

How did Paul feel about the traditions of his

fathers?         

How did Paul stack up to other Jews his age?

Verse 15

In verse 15 Paul talks about his calling. Compare

this to verse 6


Verses 16-17         

Where did Paul go right after he was saved?

Where did he NOT go?


Verses 18-20

How long did Paul wait before going to

Jerusalem?         

Who did he see there?


Verses 21-24

Did the Christians in Syria and Cilicia know

Paul very well?


Overall         

Why does Paul make such an effort to show that

he hardly had any contact with the Apostles or the Christians?

Hint: look at verses

11-12

WEEK 1

  1. From verse 1   
  2. Define the source of Paul’s role as an Apostle. Whogave this ministry to Paul? Who did not give this ministry to Paul?
  3. From verse 2
  4. Who is this letter written to?
  5. From verse 4
  6. Why did Jesus give himself for us?
  7. From verse 5
  8. What results from Jesus’ death which was according to God’s will?
  9.  From verse 6
  10. How many times in verses 6-9 is there a reference to a distorted Gospel?
  11. Paul says that some of the Galatians were “deserting “Him”. Who were they deserting?
  12. Note the significance…Leaving Christianity isn’t just leaving a system of beliefs, but it’s deserting a person.
  13. From verse 8
  14. What punishment is deserved for those who preach a different Gospel?
  15. From verse 9
  16. Why do you think verse 9 basically just repeats verse 8?
  17. From verse 10
  18. What happens when theologians try to be people pleasers?
  19. Do we see people pleaser theologians today?