Like Apollos, there are many people who are trying their best to teach the things of the Lord but do not have a proper understanding of the Way. It was necessary for Apollos to be taught more accurately the way of God. He had a zeal to serve Christ but his zeal was without proper knowledge.
A. Are you a Christian?
B. Have you been baptized?
C. If you answer yes to A, do you believe you were saved at the moment you believed and confessed Jesus as your personal Savior or sometime thereafter? Please take a moment to explain.
1. (Read Romans 10:2)
Is it possible to have the kind righteousness that pleases God without proper knowledge?
2. (Read Romans 10:17)
Where does Biblical faith come from?
3. (Read Acts 19:1-5)
Had the disciples which Paul met previously heard of being baptized in the name of Christ?
4. (Read Acts 19:4,5)
Why were the disciples which Paul met baptized again?
5. So then, if I haven’t been baptized for the correct reason or in the correct manner, should I be baptized again?
6. (Read Acts 18:24)
What was Apollos mighty in?
7. (Read Acts 18:26)
Why did Aquila and Priscilla take Apollos aside?
8. (Read Acts 18:25)
Had Apollos been baptized?
Like the disciples Paul met in the next chapter, Apollos only knew whose baptism?
9. (Read Acts 19:4,5)
To be God-pleasing was it necessary for Apollos to be baptized again, like these disciples?
10. If you discovered that you needed to be baptized again, would you?
The Wrong Way
Read Romans 3:9-19
1. (Read Romans 3:9)
Who is under sin?
* Read 1 John 3:4
What is sin?
2. (Read Romans 3:10)
In this context, who is righteous?
3. (Read Romans 3:11)
In this context, who seeks God?
4. (Read Romans 3:12)
In this context, who does good?
5. (Read Romans 3:13-14)
What have we all done with our mouths?
6. (Read Romans 3:15)
Who is guilty of murder in either attitude or action?
7. (Read Romans 3:16)
What is in the path of a sinful soul?
8. (Read Romans 3:17)
What does a sinful soul not know?
9. (Read Romans 3:18)
Should we fear God?
10. (Read Romans 3:19)
Who has become guilty of sinning before God?
11. (Read Romans 3:23)
Because of sin, what does the sinner fall short of?
12. (Read Romans 6:23)
What does sinning earn us?
13. (Read Romans 9:11)
Are infants sinful at birth?
14. (Read Ezekiel 18:20)
Do we inherit the guilt of our parents sin?
15. (Read Acts 2:38 and 22:16)
What is the purpose of baptism?
16. If we are born without the guilt of sin, is it vain to baptize an infant?
17. (Read Romans 6:3,4)
Is baptism a burial?
18. Did you know that the ancient definition of baptism means an immersion?
Who Then Can Be Saved?
Read Matthew 19:25-26
1. (Read I Corinthians 12:31)
Is there a better Way than what you have been living?
2. (Read John 14:6)
Who is the Way?
3. (Read Acts 4:10,12)By whose name can we be saved?
4. Can we be saved by any other name?
5. (Read I Thessalonians 3:11)
Who directs the Christian's way?
6. (Read Hebrews 2:9-11)
Who is the Captain of our salvation?
What does a captain do?
7. (Read Hebrews 10:19,20)
What kind of Way does the Captain lead?
8. (Read John 14:6 again.)
Is Christ our only way?
9. Are you ready to be united with Jesus’ death, burial and resurrection?