1. Where do we learn how to love and obey God?

Answer: In the Bible

2. What is the Bible?

Answer: 66 God-inspired books that teach us about God and how we can be holy as he is holy

3. Who wrote the Bible?

Answer: More than 40 people who were guided and inspired by God through a period of more than 1,600 years.

4. Name the five books in the Bible that are called the Law.

Answer: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy

5. What is the message of the Law?

Answer: God is holy, and he wants us to be like him.

6. Name the Old Testament historical books.

Answer: Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 and 2 Kings, 1 and 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther

7. What is the message of the historical books?

Answer: Good things come when we follow God with a whole heart. Bad things come when we do not.

8. Name the books of poetry in the Old Testament.

Answer: Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon

9. What is the message of the books of poetry?

Answer: We are blessed when we seek God in all circumstances.

10. Name the books of the major prophets in the Old Testament.

Answer: Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel

11. Name the books of the minor prophets in the Old Testament.

Answer: Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi

12. Why are these called “minor” prophets?

Answer: They are shorter books than the major prophets.

13. What is the message of the prophets?

Answer: Return to the law and love of God.

14. Name the Gospels in the New Testament.

Answer: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John

15. What is the message of the Gospels?

Answer: Jesus came, lived, died, and was resurrected for us.

16. Name the book that tells the history of the early church after the resurrection of Jesus.

Answer: Acts

17. What is the message of Acts?

Answer: The Holy Spirit came to the church, and God’s Word spread.

18. Name the epistles of Paul.

Answer: Romans, 1 and 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, 1 and 2 Thessalonians, 1 and 2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon

19. What is the message of Paul’s epistles?

Answer: Live in God’s grace and his righteousness.

20. Name the General Epistles.

Answer: Hebrews, James, 1 and 2 Peter, 1 and 2 and 3 John, and Jude

21. What is the message of the General Epistles?

Answer: How to live in the world as God’s people

22. Name the final book of the Bible.

Answer: Revelation

23. What is the message of Revelation?

Answer: Jesus is the King of kings and is coming soon for his victorious church.

24. Name all 66 books of the Bible.

Answer:

Old Testament

Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy,
Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 and 2 Kings, 1 and 2 Chronicles,
Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther,
Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon,
Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel,
Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum,
Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi

New Testament

Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts, Romans, 1 and 2 Corinthians,
Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians,
1 and 2 Thessalonians, 1 and 2 Timothy, Titus,
Philemon, Hebrews, James, 1 and 2 Peter,
1 and 2 and 3 John, Jude, Revelation

25. What is the message of these 66 God-inspired books?

Answer: They teach us about God and how we can be holy as he is holy; how we can be redeemed and changed to the image of Jesus Christ.[1]

26. What is a commandment of God?

Answer: A picture of who God is and a promise of what we can become

27. Where in the Bible are the Ten Commandments located?

Answer: In Exodus 20:1-17

28. What are the Ten Commandments?

Answer: Commandments given to God’s people at Mt. Sinai

29. Who gave the Ten Commandments?

Answer: God

30. Who received the Ten Commandments?

Answer: Moses

31. The first commandment is “You shall have no other gods before me.” What does this commandment mean?

Answer: We should always keep God in first place.

32. The second commandment is “You shall not make for yourself an idol…” What does this commandment mean?

Answer: It is wrong to worship anything but God.

33. The third commandment is “You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God…” What does this commandment mean?

Answer: We should treat the mention of God with great respect.

34. The fourth commandment is “Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy…” What does this commandment mean?

Answer: On Sunday we should worship God and rest.

35. The fifth commandment is “Honor your father and your mother…” What does this commandment mean?

Answer: We should love and obey our parents.

36. The sixth commandment is “You shall not murder.” What does this commandment mean?

Answer: We should not unlawfully kill other people.

37. The seventh commandment is “You shall not commit adultery.” What does this commandment mean?

Answer: Sex is for marriage only.

38. The eighth commandment is “You shall not steal.” What does this commandment mean?

Answer: We should not take things that do not belong to us.

39. The ninth commandment is “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.” What does this commandment mean?

Answer: We should always tell the truth.

40. The tenth commandment is “You shall not covet…” What does this commandment mean?

Answer: We are to be content with the things God has given us.

41. Which did Jesus say were the two greatest commandments?

Answer: You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength; and you shall love your neighbor as yourself.

42. Why are all these commandments important to us?

Answer: They describe the life our holy God wants for us.

Extra question: Quote the full text of the Ten Commandments as given in Exodus 20:1-17.

43. Who first prayed the Lord’s Prayer?

Answer: Jesus, when he taught his twelve disciples how to pray

44. Where in the Bible is the Lord’s Prayer located?

Answer: In Matthew 6:9-13

45. What are the words of the Lord’s Prayer?

Answer:

Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.

Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread.

And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.

For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.

46. What does this mean: “Hallowed be your name”

Answer: We want to honor and love our holy God.

47. What does this mean: “Your kingdom come”

Answer: God is our King. We want everyone in the world to know him as King.

48. What does this mean: “Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven”

Answer: We want everything God wants.

49. What does this mean: “Give us this day our daily bread”

Answer: We ask God to supply all our needs.

50. What does this mean: “Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors”

Answer: We ask God to forgive us like we forgive others.

51. What does this mean: “Do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one”

Answer: We ask God to protect us from all sin.

52. What does this mean: “For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever”

Answer: God is the All-Powerful King who rules heaven and earth forever.

53. Why is the Lord’s Prayer important?

Answer: It helps us focus on God as our holy Father.

54. What are the Beatitudes?

Answer: Jesus’ teaching about holy character

55. Where are the Beatitudes located?

Answer: In Matthew 5:3-10

56. Name the Beatitudes.

Answer:

Blessed are the poor in spirit,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Blessed are those who mourn,
for they will be comforted.

Blessed are the meek,
for they will inherit the earth.

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,
for they will be filled.

Blessed are the merciful,
for they will be shown mercy.

Blessed are the pure in heart,
for they will see God.

Blessed are the peacemakers,
for they will be called sons of God.

Blessed are those who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

57. What does it mean to be poor in spirit?

Answer: To admit you have sinned and need God’s help

58. What does it mean to mourn?

Answer: To be sad about the things that make God sad

59. What does it mean to be meek?

Answer: To give God control of your life

60. What does it mean to hunger and thirst for righteousness?

Answer: To truly desire God’s standards for your life

61. What does it mean to be merciful?

Answer: To have compassion for all people

62. What does it mean to have a pure heart?

Answer: To love God with all your heart

63. What does it mean to be a peacemaker?

Answer: To help people be friends with God and each other

64. What does it mean to be persecuted for the sake of righteousness?

Answer: To gladly suffer for the kingdom of God

65. How many gods are there?

Answer: There is only one God.

66. How many persons are there in the one God?

Answer: Three—God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit

67. What word best describes God?

Answer: God is holy.

68. How old is God?

Answer: God is eternal. He always was. He always will be.

69. Where is God?

Answer: God is everywhere he wants to be.

70. What can God do?

Answer: God can do anything he wants to do.

71. What does God know?

Answer: God knows everything he wants to know.

72. Is anything more powerful than God?

Answer: No

73. God is Creator. What did he create?

Answer: Everything

74. Why did God create you?

Answer: So he could love and enjoy me

75. What are men and women?

Answer: Persons who can know and love God

76. Who were our first parents?

Answer: Adam and Eve

77. What made Adam and Eve different from all the animals?

Answer: Adam and Eve had souls; animals do not.

78. Do you have a soul?

Answer: Yes, I have a soul that will never die.

79. What is sin?

Answer: It is (primarily) disobedience to a known law of God.

80. What does sin do?

Answer: It harms our loving relationship with God

81. Who committed the first sin?

Answer: Adam and Eve

82. What did Adam and Eve do wrong?

Answer: They ate fruit God told them not to eat and broke relationship with him.

83. Who tempted Adam and Eve to sin?

Answer: The Devil

84. How have we been affected by that sin?

Answer: Adam and Eve passed on sin to all humans; we are all born sinners.

85. What do sinners deserve?

Answer: God’s punishment and death

86. Can we go to heaven as (willful) sinners?

Answer: No

87. If we don’t go to heaven when we die, where will we go?

Answer: To hell

88. What is salvation?

Answer: Being forgiven of our sins (through faith in Jesus’ death, burial, and resurrection for us) and loving God

89. Why do we need salvation?

Answer: We are all sinners.

90. What is necessary for salvation?

Answer: By grace we are saved through faith in Christ Jesus.

91. Is there another way to be saved?

Answer: No, we can only be saved by grace through faith in Christ Jesus.

92. When we are saved from our sin, what happens?

Answer: We love God and our neighbors and grow in our desire to please him.

93. Who is Jesus?

Answer: Jesus is God who became a man, our Savior.

94. What is a Savior?

Answer: The only One who saves us from our sin.

95. Is Jesus man or God?

Answer: He is both perfect man and perfect God.

96. What was special about the birth of Jesus?

Answer: He was born of the virgin Mary by the Holy Spirit.

97. What did Jesus do when he lived almost 2,000 years ago?

Answer: He taught his disciples, cared for the poor, and died on the cross to atone for our sins.

98. What does it mean to atone for our sins?

Answer: It means that Jesus took the punishment we deserved by dying on the cross so we could have a relationship with God.

99. What happened after Jesus died?

Answer: After lying in a tomb, he rose again and defeated death.

100. Who is the Holy Spirit?

Answer: He is the third person of God the Trinity.

101. When did the Holy Spirit come as Jesus promised?

Answer: At the Jewish festival of Pentecost, 50 days after the resurrection of Jesus

102. What is Pentecost?

Answer: The birthday of the church, when the Holy Spirit filled the believers of Jesus

103. What does the Holy Spirit do today?

Answer: He makes believers holy.

104. How does the Holy Spirit make people holy?

Answer: He convicts and cleanses people of sin, teaches and guides, gives us spiritual power, and gives us spiritual gifts and the fruit of the Spirit.

105. What is the fruit of the Spirit?

Answer: The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.

106. What is a gift of the Spirit?

Answer: An ability given to us by the Holy Spirit to help fulfill the Great Commission.

107. What is the Great Commission?

Answer: Instructions Jesus gave his disciples to go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them and teaching them to obey his teachings

108. What is the witness of the Spirit?

Answer: An inner awareness that our faith is pleasing to God

109. How can the Holy Spirit help me?

Answer: He can help me love God and his will with a whole heart.

110. What does it mean to be a “perfect” Christian?

Answer: To love God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your might

111. Will Jesus someday return in personal, visible form?

Answer: Yes

112. Why will Jesus come again?

Answer: To receive his church to himself

113. When will this happen?

Answer: We don’t know when, so we must always be ready.

114. How can we be prepared?

Answer: Live in loving relationship with God every moment.

115. What happens after Jesus comes again?

Answer: All people will be judged, and Satan will be finally defeated.

116. After Satan is defeated what will happen?

Answer: We will love God and enjoy him forever.

• Exodus 19:3-6

• Exodus 20:1-17 - The Ten Commandments

• Deuteronomy 6:4-9

• Psalm 1

• Psalm 23

• Psalm 24

• Psalm 121

• Psalm 139

• Matthew 7:21-27

• Matthew 28:18-20

• John 3:16-21

• 1 Corinthians 13:1-13

• Galatians 5:16-25

• Ephesians 6:10-17

• Philippians 2:5-11

• Hebrews 12:1-3

• 1 Peter 2:9-12

• Revelation 21:4-8