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a: po box 701 engadine nsw 2233 ph: 02 9520 1344 e: [email protected] Transforming Mission WELCOME: We’re reflecting on a final Combined Church Service, before our Churches come together as a New Church: “Connect: a Christian community of fresh hope.” REFLECTION: Sunday’s presentation started from the perspective that followers of Jesus today, need to change our methods of communicating the unchanging message of the gospel. Do you agree or disagree and why? DISCUSSING THE MESSAGE: Read Matt 9: 27-31 and Mark 8:22-26 and John 9:1-7 • How would you summarise the key ideas these passages teach? • On each occasion Jesus approaches the same symptoms differently – why do you think that may be? • What other healings of Jesus can you think of and in what ways are they different? What do we learn from this? Read Gal 1:8; Heb 13:8 • What do these passages teach us about Jesus and the Gospel? What does it mean to you to “Connect people into the Kingdom of God?” How do you think this mission could be achieved? Read Acts 1:8 • How would you summarise the key ideas this Scripture teaches? • How would you put this verse into context for the church here today? Our Vision is to: Engage – Connect – Restore – Equip What does it mean to you to “Engage intentionally” with the world around us? Read Acts 17:22-31 • What are the key concepts we can learn from Paul’s approach here? • In what ways is this challenging for us connecting with our world today? • How does this passage personally challenge you? • How could we “Engage” (i) Personally (ii) as a LIFEgroup (iii) as a Church? This study is for week beginning: Mon12 th Oct 2015
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a: po box 701 engadine nsw 2233 ph: 02 9520 1344 e:[email protected]
Transforming Mission WELCOME: We’re reflecting on a final Combined Church Service, before our Churches come together as a New Church: “Connect: a Christian community of fresh hope.” REFLECTION: Sunday’s presentation started from the perspective that followers of Jesus today, need to change our methods of communicating the unchanging message of the gospel. Do you agree or disagree and why? DISCUSSING THE MESSAGE: Read Matt 9: 27-31 and Mark 8:22-26 and John 9:1-7
• How would you summarise the key ideas these passages teach? • On each occasion Jesus approaches the same symptoms differently – why do
you think that may be? • What other healings of Jesus can you think of and in what ways are they
different? What do we learn from this?
Read Gal 1:8; Heb 13:8 • What do these passages teach us about Jesus and the Gospel?
What does it mean to you to “Connect people into the Kingdom of God?” How do you think this mission could be achieved? Read Acts 1:8
• How would you summarise the key ideas this Scripture teaches? • How would you put this verse into context for the church here today?
Our Vision is to: Engage – Connect – Restore – Equip What does it mean to you to “Engage intentionally” with the world around us? Read Acts 17:22-31
• What are the key concepts we can learn from Paul’s approach here? • In what ways is this challenging for us connecting with our world today? • How does this passage personally challenge you? • How could we “Engage” (i) Personally (ii) as a LIFEgroup (iii) as a Church?
This study is for week beginning: Mon12th Oct 2015
a: po box 701 engadine nsw 2233 ph: 02 9520 1344 e:[email protected]
What does it mean to you to “Connect in community” today? Read James 1:27
• How would you summarise what James is teaching here? • What might it look like if we embraced part of the teaching here? • How important is it to take on board BOTH aspects of James’s teaching? • How could we “Connect” (i) Personally (ii) as a LIFEgroup (iii) as a Church?
What does it mean to you to “Restore relationship”? Read Rom 5:1-11
• In what ways does Jesus restore humanity • God does the restoring, but in what ways might we help or hinder the process? • How can we help to create opportunites and environments for restoration? • How could we “Restore” or help create an environment of Restoration for us (i)
Personally (ii) as a LIFEgroup (iii) as a Church? What does it mean to you to “Equip people for greater life?” Read Eph 4:11-12
• How would you summarise leadership roles and define their purpose? • In what ways could we develop this further? • How important is it to take on board BOTH aspects of James’s teaching? • How can we • How could we “Equip people” (i) Personally (ii) as a LIFEgroup (iii) as a Church?
How would you summarise the key lessons learned from this week’s message? Pray Together: This has been a significant year. The opportunity before our churches is unique and it is vital that we hear from God and have clarity about His will for our new Church. There is an enemy who will try to cause havoc in our midst, so please pray for the wisdom of God, the peace of the Holy Spirit and the compassion of Jesus for one another.
