Theocratic Ministry School Review
The following questions will be considered orally at the Theocratic Ministry School during the week beginning December 27, 2004. The school overseer will conduct a 30-minute review based on material covered in assignments for the weeks of November 1 through December 27, 2004. [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 is one of the best ways to arouse the interest of the audience in a subject? [be p. 218 par. 3]
2. List five characteristics of an effective conclusion. [be p. 220 par. 4–p. 221 par. 4]
3. How can we ensure that our statements are accurate? [be p. 224 box]
4. How can we make sure that our presentations at the meetings reflect high regard for the congregation’s role as “a pillar and support of the truth”? (1 Tim. 3:15) [be p. 224 pars. 1-4]
5. When it comes to current events, quotations, and experiences, how may we apply Proverbs 14:15? [be p. 225 par. 1]
ASSIGNMENT NO. 1
6. How can the time from the Flood back to Adam’s creation be calculated? [si p. 286 par. 12]
7. How can the date for the start of Jesus’ ministry be determined, and what basis is there for believing that it lasted just three and a half years? [si p. 291 par. 16]
8. (a) When did “the word to restore and to rebuild Jerusalem” go forth? (b) How many years would elapse from that time until Jesus would appear as the Messiah? (Dan. 9:24-27) [si p. 291 pars. 18-19]
9. What is included in a sincere apology that results in ‘making peace with our brother’? (Matt. 5:23, 24) [w02 11/1 p. 6 pars. 1, 5]
10. What does 2 Kings 13:18, 19 teach us about accomplishing God-assigned tasks? [w02 12/1 p. 31 pars. 1-2]
WEEKLY BIBLE READING
11. Why could the Israelites give to an alien resident or sell to a foreigner an unbled dead animal that they themselves would not eat? (Deut. 14:21)
12. What lesson is provided for us at Deuteronomy 20:5-7?
13. Why was seizing “a hand mill or its upper grindstone as a pledge” likened to seizing “a soul”? (Deut. 24:6)
14. Since the Israelites were forbidden to eat any fat, what is meant by their eating “the fat of rams”? (Deut. 32:13, 14)
15. What is a modern-day parallel to Achan’s sinful course? (Josh. 7:1-26) [w86 12/15 p. 20 par. 20]