Notes For 12/26/2021 Sermon

Last Updated on January 2, 2022 by Rocklyn Clarke

Waiting For God’s Next Move
Rocklyn Clarke – Sunday December 26, 2021
© 2021 Life Church Ministries, Inc.

Sermon Podcast Page (includes links to audio, handout, and slides)

Series Passage: Acts 22:30 – 23:35
Sermon Passage: Acts 23:23-35
Related Passages: Galatians 6:1-5, Philippians 1:12-18

Life Group Meeting

Without life groups, we are at the mercy of cliques and people who aren’t in a clique will “fall through the cracks”. Furthermore, even the people who are in cliques will have some of their issues and needs “fall through the cracks”. This is because life groups are organized to please, and be led by the Holy Spirit, whereas cliques develop solely around whatever the people in the cliques find appealing. Life groups are organized to help you grow and overcome your “issues”; cliques simply aren’t!

Check out our Life Group Pages for more life group information and resources.

• Welcome (5-10 minutes)
  • Icebreaker
• Worship (optional)
  • Worship in the Cell Group – Joel Comiskey Group
• Word – Discussion Questions (if there are no specific questions use the default questions):
  For each question, spend 1 – 2 minutes in silence before you begin to respond.
  1. Are you busy dealing with God’s most recent move, waiting on God’s next move, or both? Discuss.
  2. Describe your most recent opportunities to to influence unchurched people you know or to get to know new unchurched people.
• Witness
  • Testimony (if you haven’t shared this already):
    • Describe your life before Jesus.
      • Your ethnicity, where you were born, where you were raised.
      • The spiritual beliefs you were raised with and/or that you eventually adopted.
        • How you decided right or wrong.
      • Your beliefs about and attitude towards Jesus and Christians.
      • Examples that illustrate your former beliefs.
      • What were your most important goals?
    • Describe how you realized you needed to follow Jesus.
  • Pray for 1 or 2 people that you want to become followers of Jesus.
  • Pray for boldness to build your relationships with unchurched people and to talk about Jesus.

Five Thresholds

• Home Page | Evangelism
• The Five Thresholds | Evangelism
  • Journey to Faith: The Five Thresholds | Evangelism
  • Threshold 1: Trust | Evangelism
  • Threshold 2: Curiosity | Evangelism
  • Threshold 3: Openness | Evangelism
  • Threshold 4: Seeking | Evangelism
  • Threshold 5: Following | Evangelism

Salvation

• Following Jesus: Introduction – Lesson 2
• Acts 2
• John 10:1-5
• Acts 19:1-7
• Promises:
  • Romans 8:28
  • Philippians 4:6-7
  • Philippians 4:13
  • Philippians 4:19
  • 1 John 1:9
  • Romans 8:28
  • Romans 8:32

Your Testimony

• Acts 10
• Acts 17:16-34
• 1 Corinthians 2:1-5
• Revelation 12:7-12

Default Material

(Use these when there are no specific discussion questions for the passage:

• Question 1: “What is this passage saying?”
• Question 2: “What is God saying to me through this passage?”
• Question 3: “How can  I apply this passage throughout the week?”

Taken from:

• What is the Best Small Group Lesson? (Three Questions that Will Help Revitalize Your Cell Group) – YouTube (00:5:15)