Theocratic Ministry School Review
The following questions will be considered orally at the Theocratic Ministry School during the week beginning April 28, 2003. The school overseer will conduct a 30–minute review based on material covered in assignments for the weeks of March 3 through April 28, 2003. [Note: Where there are no references after the question, you will need to do your own research to find the answers.—See Ministry School, pp. 36-7.]
SPEECH QUALITIES
1. What factors may contribute to a lack of fluency? [be p. 93]
2. True or False: Pausing should be avoided, since it can allow people’s minds to wander and give them opportunities to interrupt. Explain.
3. Of what value is proper sense stress to a speaker or a public reader? (Neh. 8:8) [be p. 101]
4. How can one develop proper sense stress? [be pp. 102-3]
5. What are the principal ideas that should be emphasized when reading aloud from a publication at a Bible study or at a congregation meeting? [be p. 105]
ASSIGNMENT NO. 1
6. What can parents do to train children “in order that they may listen and in order that they may learn” at Christian meetings? (Deut. 31:12) [be p. 16]
7. What is the spiritual paradise? [w01 3/1 pp. 8-10]
8. How does Proverbs 8:1-3 show that godly wisdom is available to all, and according to Colossians 2:3, where can it be found? [w01 3/15 pp. 25, 28]
9. How can we make God’s name known? (John 17:6) [be pp. 273-5]
10. What important details do people need to know concerning the “good news of the kingdom”? (Matt. 24:14) [be pp. 279-80]
WEEKLY BIBLE READING
11. (a) In the first century, what was “the disgusting thing” mentioned at Mark 13:14? (b) To what did its “standing where it ought not” refer?
12. How does Luke’s Gospel establish that Jesus was the natural heir to David’s throne? (Luke 3:23-38) [w92 10/1 p. 9 par. 3]
13. What was the point of Jesus’ statement recorded at Luke 12:2?
14. In Jesus’ illustration of the lost drachma coin, why is the reaction of the angels remarkable? (Luke 15:10) How should their example affect us?
15. Which two covenants are mentioned at Luke 22:29?