Questions to focus on: Serve Him with Mirth

These questions can be used at different levels. You can take 30 seconds to think about one or two. You can discuss them in a team or group of like-minded Christians. Or they can be used in a college class, including assignments and research projects, and answered in writing at any depth. They may be freely reproduced for this purpose. Please email us additional questions that could be added to this page.
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  1. How has the church's perception of humor changed in the last 50 years?
  2. Find examples where humor has opened up doors for evangelism.
  3. Do you concur with Pastor Flynn's limitations on the use of humor?
  4. Discuss the humorous use of puns and word-play in the Bible.
  5. What conditions us to think that specific events in the Bible are serious, when in fact the entire context would have had its funny side to those there at the time?