Part 1—Study Questions for the Book Learn From the Great Teacher
Directions for the Study of the Teacher Book
To study this book effectively, number the paragraphs in each chapter, including those in the introduction. All the paragraphs in each section should be read together. During the course of the study, the Scriptures at the end of a chapter can be discussed when appropriate.
When the book is used in the Congregation Bible Study, one chapter should be covered each week, with the introduction being considered as the first chapter. The book will be covered in 49 sessions.
Introduction
Paragraphs 1-5
1. Why is the birth of a baby called a miracle?
2. What are some things that children need from parents?
3. Why should Christian parents base their instructions on the Bible and not on human philosophy or local customs? (Proverbs 3:5, 6; 14:12; Isaiah 30:21)
Paragraphs 6-10
4. How are questions in this book designed to help parents teach their children, and what may a parent learn from the children’s answers to such questions?
5. How are the pictures designed as teaching aids?
6. What do the publishers of this book sincerely hope?
Chapter 1
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1. What was Jesus able to do as a teacher?
2. How did Jesus become a good Son and a Great Teacher?
3. In what way was Jesus different from all other humans?
Paragraphs 7-11
4. How were children able to know that Jesus loved them?
5. Why did Jesus teach children, and what can we learn from his example?
6. What did Jesus mean when he said that grown-ups should be like a child?
Paragraphs 12-16
7. What point was Jesus making when he spoke about the birds and the flowers?
8. How can what Jesus taught help someone decide whether to accept employment that requires him to live away from his family?
9. What have you found in Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount that shows the importance of putting God first in our lives?
Paragraphs 17-21
10. How can we listen to Jesus, and what will result if we do?
11. When did God tell Jesus’ disciples to listen to Jesus, and how can we find real happiness?
Chapter 2
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1. What makes the Bible the most important of all books?
2. How did God have the Bible written, and why is it reasonable to believe that God could provide messages from heaven?
Paragraphs 8-12
3. Who was the first Bible writer, and how long did Bible writing continue?
4. Name some of the Bible writers, and identify them in the pictures.
5. How did Bible writers know things before they happened?
Paragraphs 13-18
6. Why can all people learn what is in God’s letter to mankind?
7. What are some of the important things the Bible tells us?
8. How can we show that we are truly wise and appreciate God’s Word?
Chapter 3
Paragraphs 1-10
1. What impresses you about how we are made?
2. Whom did God create first, and how do we know?
3. Why did God create living things?
4. How has God shown his love for us?
Paragraphs 11-21
5. What examples can you use to prove that God really exists?
6. Why should we not try to make an image of God?
7. How can we show our thankfulness to God?
Chapter 4
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1. What shows that a name is very important?
2. What is God’s name, and why should we use it?
3. How did Jesus use God’s name and teach others to do the same?
Paragraphs 7-14
4. What did God make known to Moses about His name?
5. What did Jehovah tell Pharaoh about His name?
6. How did Jehovah make his name known, and how does he do so today?
Paragraphs 15-19
7. Where in your Bible can you point out God’s name?
8. How can you show you love Jehovah?
Chapter 5
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1. How did God’s Son come to be born on earth? (Luke 1:26-38)
2. What fine example did both Jesus and Mary set, and how can we imitate them?
3. How was Jesus’ birth different from all others?
Paragraphs 9-17
4. What things happened on the night of Jesus’ birth?
5. Where did Jesus grow up, and what did he later do that won God’s approval? (Psalm 40:6-8)
6. What other things can we learn from Jesus’ example?
Chapter 6
Paragraphs 1-4
1. What do most people always want, and how did Jesus’ disciples show that they felt the same way at times?
2. What lesson provided by Jesus did his disciples initially fail to learn?
Paragraphs 5-11
3. What did Jesus do the night before he died, and what did that teach?
4. If we follow Jesus’ example, what good things will happen?
Paragraphs 12-17
5. How can you serve family members?
6. How can you serve people at school and in other places?
7. Why should we serve others even if they do not always appreciate it?
Chapter 7
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1. Why is it wise to listen to older people?
2. What can we learn from Jesus’ prayer found at Luke 22:42?
3. What are we showing when we obey God?
Paragraphs 10-15
4. How can children apply Ephesians 6:1-3, and why should they do so?
5. How did obedience protect people long ago?
Paragraphs 16-19
6. How can obedience protect children today?
7. How do all benefit from obedience to God?
Chapter 8
Paragraphs 1-5
1. Who are higher and more powerful than humans?
2. What miracle did God perform so that Jesus could be born as a baby on earth?
3. How did Jesus show that he had lived before he became a man?
Paragraphs 6-11
4. What future could Adam and Eve have enjoyed if they had obeyed God?
5. What important lesson can we learn from Genesis 2:17?
Paragraphs 12-19
6. How did an angel created by God deceive Eve?
7. What happened because Adam and Eve disobeyed God?
8. Why did a good angel become bad?
9. How can we imitate Jesus and prove the Devil a liar?
Chapter 9
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1. When tempted, why should we not give in and do what is wrong?
2. What could the Bible mean when it says that at Jesus’ baptism “the heavens were opened up”?
Paragraphs 5-13
3. How did Satan first tempt Jesus, and how did Jesus resist him?
4. What was Satan’s second temptation, and how did Jesus respond?
5. What can we learn from the third temptation of Jesus?
Paragraphs 14-20
6. How might we be tempted to satisfy our physical desires or to do something foolish?
7. When is it especially hard to do what is right, but what will help us always to do so?
Chapter 10
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1. Why did one of the angels become God’s opposer?
2. What did some other angels do, and why was this bad?
3. What were the children of the angels like, and what did God do about the troubles on earth?
Paragraphs 7-11
4. What are Satan and his demons doing now, and how could they affect us?
5. What bad things do wicked angels try to get children to do?
Paragraphs 12-17
6. What bad things do wicked angels like, and where do people often learn about such things?
7. Although the demons are very strong, why should we not be afraid of them?
Chapter 11
Paragraphs 1-11
1. Why can we believe in things we cannot see?
2. What have we learned about both good and bad angels?
3. What are some of the things that angels talk about, and why do you believe angels are interested in us?
4. How have angels helped people in the past who loved God?
Paragraphs 12-17
5. What special work do God’s angels do in behalf of his servants on earth?
6. What work did God’s angels help Paul to do?
7. What big work will the angels soon help God to do?
Chapter 12
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1. What is prayer, and how do we know that both private and public prayers are proper?
2. Why is saying “Amen” after a prayer proper, and what does it mean?
3. When prayers are offered at meetings, why is it important to listen respectfully, not looking around or making noise?
4. What do we learn from Nehemiah’s prayer?
Paragraphs 8-10
5. What important thing should we remember about prayer?
6. What are some of the things we can pray to God about?
Paragraphs 11-17
7. What were the three most important things Jesus taught his followers to pray for?
8. What other things did Jesus say we should pray for?
Chapter 13
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1. What does it mean to be a disciple of Jesus?
2. Who were Jesus’ first six disciples, and what do you know about each one?
3. What four disciples returned to their fishing business, but how did they later respond to Jesus’ invitation to follow him?
Paragraphs 8-12
4. After becoming Jesus’ disciples, what did such ones need to be willing to do?
5. Who failed to accept Jesus’ invitation to follow him, and why?
6. Whom did Jesus choose to become his 12 apostles?
7. Which one of the 12 apostles became unfaithful, and who replaced him?
8. What other men also became apostles?
Paragraphs 13-16
9. How do we know that women can become disciples of Jesus?
10. How will a true disciple of Jesus act, and where will he or she do so?
Chapter 14
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1. How should we treat those who are unkind to us?
2. What did Jesus mean when he said: ‘You are to forgive seventy-seven times’?
3. After answering Peter’s question, what did Jesus do?
Paragraphs 6-13
4. How did the king treat the slave who owed him a lot of money?
5. How did that slave treat a fellow slave who owed him only a little money?
6. How did the king react when he heard what the unforgiving slave had done?
Paragraphs 14-18
7. Who is like the king in Jesus’ story?
8. What was the point of Jesus’ story?
9. What will you do if someone asks you to forgive him, even if you have forgiven him many times before?
Chapter 15
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1. What is prejudice, and why do you believe it is wrong to have it?
2. When a man who was prejudiced asked Jesus what he must do to live forever, what did Jesus say at first?
3. How did the man try to find an excuse for being prejudiced?
Paragraphs 8-15
4. What story did Jesus tell the man in order to help him?
5. What question did Jesus ask the man when he finished the story, and how did the man answer?
Paragraphs 16-19
6. How does Jesus’ story show who our neighbor is?
7. How do we know that Jehovah is not prejudiced?
8. How can we be a good neighbor?