Austin Bible Church
The structuring of the evangelistic message of the New Testament (Peter, Stephen, Paul) is based on the unconditional covenants --what is that structure?
What is the session of our Lord Jesus Christ? The time from ascension to Second Advent, while Christ is seated at the right hand of God the Father.
Is Adam the federal head of the human race? If so, what does that headship signify?
What is the sin unto death? Illustrate it with people who died under it. Is it functioning today?
Distinguish between the two advents of Jesus Christ.
What is the difference biblically between fornication and the sin of adultery?
What is an ambassador?
Define the Angelic Conflict.
Is anger always sin?
Why do conservative organizations often go anti-Semitic?
What significance do the Levitical offerings have today?
Do you believe in limited or unlimited atonement? Explain.
Is Jesus Christ a defense attorney or prosecuting attorney? Give some details on the doctrine of the Attorneyship of Jesus Christ.
What authority does a pastor have? Is it scriptural to have a check and balance system on him? Explain.
How many baptisms are there in scripture? Is there such a thing as a dry baptism?
What is the baptism of the cup?
What is the baptism of fire?
What is the baptism of the Holy Spirit? When does it happen?
Give the six categories in the barrier. Six doctrines that take care of it as well.
In interpreting the sermon on the mount, to which dispensation does it apply?
Why did Christ get baptized?
Does John the Baptist, the herald of Christ’s first advent, have any further ministry on earth during the Tribulation?
Who are the two witnesses of the Tribulation in Revelation 11?
Does a believer have a new nature? Describe it.
What is your position on drinking, smoking, as it pertains to a minister of the Gospel?
Why is overt activity curtailed on the part of a stronger brother in regard to a weaker brother?
What is the basis of unity among believers?
What does it mean to “live in the Word?”
What significance do the bones of Joseph have?
Do you believe in capital punishment? Why?
What significance does vocabulary have in the Christian Way of Life?
What is a Christophany?
Why did Christ become true humanity?
What is the hypostatic union?
Define the Church Universal and the Church local.
What is the significance of circumcision?
Do you believe in infant baptism? Infant dedication?
How much of a threat is socialism / communism today? Catholicism? The cults?
How do you confess sin biblically at the point of salvation? At the point of being out of fellowship in the Christian way of life?
How does the Communion ordinance illustrate absolute spirituality?
Give the chronology of creation.
In the doctrine of rewards, what is the significance of crowns?
Distinguish between the spiritual death of Christ and the physical death of Christ.
What is the significance of the blood of Christ?
Discuss briefly the doctrine of dying grace.
What is demon possession? Can a believer be demon possessed?
What is divine discipline? Give the different categories of divine discipline.
Do you believe in dispensationalism? Give the four divisions of the Bible dispensationally.
Is there a difference in the plan of salvation in the Old Testament when compared with the New Testament?
How were people saved in the Old Testament? Give examples.
What is the difference between Church Age spirituality and Old Testament spirituality’?
Does the animal system of sacrifice become reinstituted during the Tribulation and Millennium? Why?
What is the significance of the Millennial temple and priesthood in Ezekiel 40-48?
How would you handle those with mental health issues in your congregation?
Give some principles from the Bible on divine guidance.
What is your understanding of the doctrine of drinking in the Bible?
Give some principles applicable to “doubtful things.”
What is the edification complex of the soul?
What is the emotional revolt of the soul?
What is reversionism in a believer? In an unbeliever?
What is the Grace Apparatus for Perception?
What are the doctrines of election and predestination? How are they related?
Do you believe in eternal security?
Give some proofs of eternal security.
Doesn’t belief in eternal security lead to lawless living?
How important is the doctrine of Divine Decrees? What is that doctrine?
For evangelism, what is the responsibility of the local church?
Diagram the doctrine of divine essence and illustrate the Trinity.
Distinguish between faith inhale and exhale.
Is it proper to say that there is a union of grace and faith?
What is the significance of fasting in the Bible? Is fasting valid today?
How many Jewish feasts were there? What in shadow did the feasts portray?
Discuss the word incarnation.
What is Operation Footstool?
What is your understanding of foreknowledge?
Do you personally believe that Genesis 6 was an angelic infiltration into the human race?
Give a detailed description of the doctrine of grace.
Do you believe in tithing? What will you do when the church financial statement is in the red?
Give your whole concept of grace giving.
Contrast the Judgment Seat of Christ and the Great White Throne Judgment.
What are the original languages of the Bible? How important are they? Are they related to any particular doctrine?
There are at least four reasons why people appear to be or are healed. Give several.
Distinguish between Hell and the Lake of Fire.
Distinguish between the filling of the Holy Spirit and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
What does it mean to grieve and or to quench the Holy Spirit?
What is the doctrine of intercalation?
What process does the Holy Spirit go through in making the Gospel clear to an unbeliever when he has no human spirit?
Distinguish between human good, divine good, and morality.
How many civilizations are there recorded in the Word of God? What are they?
What is the biblical concept of humility?
In what way are we to imitate God?
Distinguish between imputation and justification.
Does one learn Bible doctrine on the basis of human I.Q., spiritual I. Q., or both?
What is the woman’s occupational hazard?
What is the significance of inner beauty in a woman?
What is internationalism? Does it violate doctrinal passages? In what way?
Briefly describe the essence of each of the five cycles of divine discipline in Leviticus 26.
What is involved in the doctrine of isolation of sin?
What is the significance of Israel in returning to the Land today?
When will the official regathering of Israel occur?
What relationship does the Tribulation have to the Old Testament Age of Israel?
Is it possible that the mental attitude sin of Jealousy is worse than other mental attitude sins?
What is the New Jerusalem in Rev. 21?
Is the believer to judge other believers? What about discernment?
What is the holiness bypass?
Distinguish between killing and murder.
What is the significance of the term “kiss” in Scripture?
Distinguish between the Law and Grace.
What does the term legalism connote to you? Are you legalistic? Do you believe that certain laws are to be kept?
Does libido pose a threat to a single person in the pursuit of identifying their potential wife or husband?
Name some tools you would use in Bible Study.
How was Jesus Christ sustained on the Cross?
Was the Virgin Birth necessary in the case of Jesus Christ? How so?
Explain the Impeccability of Christ.
Did Jesus Christ function under the Grace Apparatus for Perception?
Give three Greek words for love, and distinguish between them.
What is the essence of man?
Are there any bona fide reasons for divorce in the Bible?
Distinguish biblically between divorce and separation.
What in marriage precedes sexual love?
How would you counsel a husband or wife who came to you and said they were not meant for each other by God?
What are the five priorities of any married believing woman?
What are the four priorities as taught for a pastor-teacher?
What is the greatest problem in marriage?
Distinguish between the soul of a woman and the soul of a man.
Is long hair becoming a man?
Should a woman wear a hat to church?
How is Jesus Christ our mediator?
In the doctrine of mental attitudes, how are thoughts controlled or brought into captivity?
Distinguish between the two lobes of the mentality.
What three things are in the right lobe of the soul – the heart?
What do you understand about the subconscious mind?
What is the military responsibility of a believer?
Are you a military pacifist?
When is war justified? Not justified?
What chapter in the Bible gives the length of the Millennium?
Distinguish between the Church Age and the Millennium in the matter of war.
Who goes into the Millennium? Who is destroyed at the end?
What should the local churches attitude be toward missions?
What is your thinking concerning deputation? Mission boards? Going to the field as an “independent?”
What spiritual gifts should a missionary have?
What do you understand about the doctrine of the mystery?
What is a believer’s responsibility to his country in the area of taxes, keeping law, involvement in the community, marriage laws, and funeral laws?
Would you recommend cremation to a family in your church? Why?
Would you recommend a funeral service with the casket viewing of the body? Would you permit this in the church if the family persisted?
Do you believe in graveside ceremonies?
What about the sanctity of the body after the soul and spirit have left it (believer)?
Where do babies go who die before the age of accountability?
Describe the essence of the old sin nature.
What is the remedy to the old sin nature? Eradication? Dominance over it? Coexistence? Nullification? Ignoring it?
What do you understand about the essence of God?
What is a parable?
Why did Christ use parables in his earthly ministry?
Do you believe in the literal interpretation of the Bible? What then do you do with figurative speech?
Do you believe that every word (in print) of the King James Bible is inspired?
When did the Church start? Was the Church in the Old Testament?
Are Old Testament saints members of the “Body of Christ?”
Define retroactive positional truth and current positional truth.
Relate your appreciation of the doctrine of prayer.
Is it bona fide to have group prayer meetings? Prayer cells?
Prove that you have a completed Canon of Scripture in your hand. Why only 66 books? What about the extra books in some Catholic Bibles?
What is pride? Explain beyond it being a mental attitude sin.
The doctrine of privacy is based on the priesthood of the believer. What other functions does a believer-priest perform and why is privacy needed to do this?
Was the prodigal son saved or lost? What is the point of the parable?
Prove that there are degrees of punishment in the Lake of Fire.
Distinguish between the doctrine of propitiation and reconciliation.
The spiritual gift of administration is very important. Should a pastor-teacher be an administrator?
Should the pastor-teacher have say-so in the musical department? How much?
Who has final authority regarding procedure in church board meetings?
Is it proper for a church board to give permission for the pastor to do so and so?
Who decides on the temperature of the physical plant, the seating, the quietness of the people to concentrate?
Is a pastor a dictator? If not, where does he stop short of being a dictator?
Should the pastor be concerned about the dress of the people coming to his church?
Should people be permitted to smoke in the church building?
What is your position on Bible institutes and seminaries? Is there any place for them today in your thinking?
Should all giving be directed through the local church? What percentage is to be given under the concept of grace?
Define the difference between religion and Christianity?
Is the Rapture a distinct event, apart from the Second Advent? Does this mean that you believe that the Second Coming of Christ has two distinct phases?
What is the difference between relationship and fellowship?
Briefly discuss the doctrine of fragrance of memories.
Give the four stages of the resurrection unto life. (Christ the first-fruits, etc.)
Can you think through the highlights of the Old Testament and New Testament geographically and individually? Use certain people to describe these highlights.
Diagram emotional revolt of the soul.
Give your view on revolution, good or bad.
Why don’t we worship on Saturday today? In eternity, what will be the day of worship?
Discuss the three concepts of sanctification in Scripture. The term “sanctification” has a root concept, what is it?
In the Angelic Conflict, Satan heads up the opposition. How has he structured his demonic powers?
What is Satan’s purpose in the Angelic Conflict?
In Matthew 25, what does the parable of the Ten Virgins teach?
What is your basic thinking concerning separation of church and state?
Does the Holy Spirit convict of personal sin in the life of the unbeliever? The believer?
Did God create sin? What use has sin in the plan of God?
Are there degrees of sin?
What is scar tissue of the soul?
Give at least four causes of scar tissue of the soul.
How is scar tissue removed?
When does one receive a spiritual gift?
Distinguish between a temporary spiritual gift and a permanent spiritual gift.
Is the present day Tongues movement genuine?
What stand do you intend to take in your church regarding tongues?
How would you prove that tongues are not genuine after 70 AD, when the Canon of Scripture was completed in 96 AD?
Do you believe in “faith-healers?”
What about the radio, podcast, and internet preachers today? How do they fit within the plan of God?
What about Campus Crusade, Navigators, Child Evangelism, and other organizations? Is their operation supported by the Scriptures?
Give some prevalent perversions of Spirituality.
What is biblical spirituality?
Define the doctrine of reversion for both believer and unbeliever.
In the principles of Christian courtship, what is the main priority in courtship?
Explain why category 3 love must precede category 2 love (generally) in courtship and marriage.
Does a believer lose his salvation as a suicide? How would you explain a believer suicide to the deceased loved ones?
Will you be performing marriage ceremonies? If so, whom will you marry, and not marry?
Give three of the 26 laws of Study.
Relate scientific discoveries with Scriptural data.
In what way is Christ superior?
Do you believe in a Friday crucifixion or a Wednesday crucifixion?
In the Great Tribulation, distinguish between the beast and the false prophet.
What is the significance of the term Armageddon?
Give the very important place of Daniel’s 70 weeks in prophecy and break down your answer into a threefold division.
Who are the first-fruits of the Tribulation?
Give the four-fold wave of evangelism in the Tribulation.
At one time Israel in the Tribulation (believers) are told to see and another time to fight. Distinguish.
Is Matthew 24 primarily Church Age or Tribulation?
Why does the Lord pour out so much judgment during the Tribulation?
When is Satan denied all access to heaven?
What are some misconceptions prevalent today in the USA?
Is there a conspiracy abroad today in the United States? What type?
How much salary do you believe a church should pay you so you could be full-time? Or would you work part-time to support yourself?
What will you do when someone crosses you, stabs you in the back, in the ministry?
Do you ascribe to volitional theology? Are you Calvinist in your doctrinal position or Armenian?
How much freedom does a man have?
Describe a “worldly Christian.”
How much privacy do you expect to have in the parsonage?
What is your wife’s duty to the church? What will she be expected to do (by you) in Christian work?
Do you know your wife’s spiritual gift?
Do you believe in a daily quiet time?
Do you believe in daily Bible study as a family?
Is welfare to be carried on by the government or by the local church or by a combination of both?
Give a brief account of the stages of spiritual growth.
Can you know if you have your Edification Complex of the Soul?
How much Greek and Hebrew do you need to know in order to “effectively” pastor a local church?
Discuss the doctrine of yielding and its relationship to spirituality.
Give the priorities of old age. First when does it start, the ministries of old age, and the hazards of old age.
What is the doctrine of prosperity?
In what ways can a believer be prospered? Does it have its hazards? Elaborate.
Why do believers suffer?
Describe an “emotional seizure.”
Do you expect better or worse times in the United States of America?
Do you keep up on current events? Do you read the daily newspaper?
Do you believe that personal cleanliness has anything to do with your Christian testimony?
How should a Christian dress?
How important is knowing Old Testament Introduction, New Testament Introduction, Hermeneutics archeology, and other related subjects in ministering the Word?
How much study time (when you are not working) will you be doing to maintain your teaching ministry?
Do you believe that teaching the Word of God daily is commanded of a pastor-teacher?
What is your stand on the church’s attitude toward your children, if any?
What is the Biblical attitude that you should have toward the younger women in your congregation?
Do you intend to be a pastor-teacher for the rest of your life?