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Ladies, the monthly "prayer and fellowship meeting" begins Saturday, January 12 at 9.00am. The questions for each month's reading of J.I. Packer's Knowing God will be available hardcopy on the information table, but they will also be available here on the Pilgrim People blog so that you can access them anytime from a computer. During the year, if you want to go back and get the questions from previous chapters, simply go to "Archives" and select "Ladies Prayer Meeting." You will find these posts archived for you there. The questions for Jan 12 are as follows...

Ladies’ Prayer & Fellowship Meeting

January 2008

Read chapters 1-2 of J.I. Packer’s Knowing God. Answer the following questions to the best of your ability. (Don’t worry, if you don’t want to speak up in the meeting you don’t have to!)

1. Packer says that theology “is the most practical project anyone can engage in.” Do you believe that is true? If so, provide a few examples of how theology is practical.

2. What spiritual dangers do we face when we study theology? Conversely, what spiritual dangers do we face by not studying theology at all (or too little)?

3. What do you think Packer means when he says, “People who know their God are before anything else people who pray, and the first point where their zeal and energy for God’s glory come to expression is in their prayers”?

4. Do you think of God as the cosmic ruler of the universe, who unfolds history as the drama of his eternal plan? What means has God provided to help us think more about God in this way?

5. What do you think Packer means by the following statement: “Those who know God have great contentment in God”? Does knowing God produce contentment? If so, how?

6. What shows us how impoverished we are with regard to “how we pray and what goes on in our hearts”?

7. Can we know God apart from the Person and Work of Christ? If so, how and in what way? What role does the Person and Work of Christ have in our study of theology?