CRE MS F3 OPENER T2 TEACHER_CO_KE.pdf

Seven benefits of learning Christian Religious Education in Secondary Schools include:
1. Equips learners with an understanding of God/spiritual growth.
2. Acquiring life skills to handle challenges in life/critical thinking/proper decisions.
3. Helps one respect their own and other people's religious beliefs/culture.
4. Acquiring basic principles for Christian living/moral values.
5. Enables one to understand how to relate with other people.
6. Gives answers to questions/mysteries of life/metaphysical world.
7. Explains the origin/purpose of human beings on earth.

Eight effects of the translation of the Bible into local languages include:
1. Many people can read the word of God/improved literacy.
2. Development of African/local languages.
3. Made evangelization easier/growth of the church.
4. Led to the development of African independent churches.
5. Many Africans got converted to Christianity.
6. Missionaries learned African languages, making Christianity spread faster.
7. Development of printing press/church bookshops.
8. Created job opportunities.

The Bible is referred to as a library because:
1. It has many books.
2. Written at different times.
3. Written in many styles.
4. Written by different authors/people.
5. Written for different purposes/messages/levels.

Seven functions of the Temple in Jerusalem at the time of King Solomon include:
1. Place of worship/prayers/sacrifices.
2. Where major festivals were held.
3. Used as a treasury/important objects were kept there.
4. Source of unity among the people.
5. Gave them a sense of security.
6. Symbolized the presence of God among the people/the Ark of the Covenant was kept there.
7. Where people were taught the law.

Eight reasons given by Samuel against leadership in Israel include:
1. Would be rejection against God as King and leader.
2. Israelites would lose identity in becoming like other nations.
3. Yahweh would reject them.
4. Israel would become like other nations who did not know Yahweh.
5. King would introduce forced labor.
6. King would grab land/vineyards.
7. People would be forced to pay high taxes.
8. Daughters would work in royal houses.

Ways through which women leadership is promoted in the church today include:
1. Providing education for women/sensitizing women on their rights.
2. Training women on various church ministries.
3. Ordaining women as pastors, reverends/elders.
4. Involving them in teaching/preaching the gospel.
5. Appointing them as leaders in church organizational/activities.

Characteristics of true prophets in the Old Testament include:
1. Called by God.
2. Received revelation from God through dreams/visions/direct command/familiar objects.
3. Obedient.
4. Faced opposition/rejection from the people.
5. Commanded God's message to the people.
6. Spoke with authority/were fearless.
7. Acknowledged one God who was universal/monotheism.
8. Understood the nature of the prophesies.

Five visions of prophet Amos include:
1. A swarm of locusts.
2. A great fire sent by God.
3. A crocked wall being measured using a plumb line.
4. A basket full of ripe fruits/summer fruits.
5. The destruction of the altar/temple.

The church carries out its prophetic role in society today through:
1. Preaching the good news/evangelism.
2. Translating the Bible into vernacular for people to understand.
3. Condemning social evils and rebuking evils in society.
4. Guidance and counseling.
5. Conducting civic education.
6. Teaching God's word.
7. Offering medical services.

The call of the first disciples of Jesus (Luke 5:1-11) involved Jesus teaching people from Simon's boat and then asking Simon to cast his nets into the deep water, resulting in a miraculous catch of fish, after which Simon and his companions followed Jesus.

Reasons why Jesus chose the twelve disciples include:
1. To teach them the secrets of the Kingdom of God.
2. To have companions/personal assistants.
3. To form an inner group to assist him during his public ministry.
4. To be witnesses to his saving acts in the world.
5. To reveal his person/give a new understanding of his messiahship.
6. To symbolize the reconstruction of the twelve tribes of Israel.

Christians find it difficult to apply the teachings of John the Baptist in their lives due to:
1. Lack of faith in God's word.
2. Divisions along tribal/racial/denominational lines.
3. Clinging to the past/inability to abandon the old/previous lifestyle.
4. Negative attitude by the rich towards the needy/poor.
5. Influence of the mass media/moral decadence in society.
6. Poverty/some Christians lack what to share with others.