Notes For 07/28/2024 Sermon

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Jul 282024
 

Luke 7: Faith, Compassion and Love – Part 4
Eva Clarke – Sunday July 28, 2024
© 2024 Life Church Ministries, Inc.

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Series Passage: Luke 7

Sermon Resources:

Current Material

Previous Material

Q&A and Discussion (for Communion Sundays)

Spend 1 – 2 minutes in silence before you begin each question.

Life Groups

Welcome (5-10 minutes)

Worship (optional for Sunday breakout sessions)

Word – Discussion Questions (if there are no specific questions use the default questions):

Before you begin each question: have someone read the passage out loud, then spend 1 – 2 minutes in silence.

  • What is this passage saying to its original recipients?
  • What is God saying to you through this passage?
  • How can you apply this passage throughout the week?

Witness (check out the Witness section resources below):

How we work together as a team to be “good news” to the people around us.

Identify an accessible pool of unchurched people

If you’re going to make disciples, you’re going to have to spend time with people who don’t yet follow Jesus. Most people will be most effective in winning people with whom they’ve developed a relationship. Relationships develop best when you have frequent opportunities to interact. 

Who are the unchurched people that you connect with on a regular basis? Do a network map. You will need paper and something to write with for this exercise:

    • Think through the various organizations and groups that you connect with.
    • Review your personal calendar for the past week. Where were you each day and with whom did you spend time?
    • Review your personal calendar for the coming week. Where will you be each day and with whom will you be spending time?
    • Do a network map: InterVarsity: The 5 Thresholds Network Map
    • Now that you’ve generated a network map, what will you do with it? Here are some ideas:
      • Use it as a personal prayer list.
      • Share it with the members of your life group so that they can also pray for the salvation of the people on your list.
      • Work with your life group to plan an activity that will build your relationships with the people on your lists.
    • The following article has many great suggestions for successfully inviting people to events and activities:

Optional Witness Material

    • Have your missing members been called or visited this past week?
    • How can you help your life group leaders build up your group this week?
    • Is there someone that you need to talk to about Jesus this week?

Additional Life Group Meeting Components:

  • Reflection – Include a brief time (e.g. 2 minutes) for quiet reflection sometime during your meeting. Potential times for this are:
    • Just before reviewing the questions during the Word portion of the meeting.
    • Just before prayer during the Witness portion of the meeting.
    • Just after prayer during the Witness portion of the meeting.

Immediately after this reflection time, members may want to write down any thoughts or impressions that come to them and anything that they feel the Lord is saying to them or to anyone else. Encourage the members to consider how they might incorporate more reflection in their daily, weekly, and monthly routines.

  • Life Group Housekeeping (do this once a month or more often if needed)
    • Be familiar with our life group goals.
    • Review our connection tools: e-Life & the life group email list
      • Does everyone know how to use them?
      • Is everyone’s information up to date?
      • Is everyone receiving email from the life group email list?
    • Is anyone not showing up for Sunday service or life group meetings? If so, who has been in touch with them?
    • How will the group onboard the next visitor?

Word Section Default Questions

(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 you through this passage?”
  • Question 3: “How can you apply this passage throughout the week?”

Taken from:

Witness Section Resources:

How we work together as a team to be “good news” to the people around us.

Life Groups

Life groups are the basic environment in which discipleship will take place. A life group is a group of 3 – 15 believers who come together weekly outside of the church building for evangelism, community, and spiritual growth with the goal of making disciples who make disciples.

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! Becoming part of a life group is a major way that we “seek first God’s Kingdom and his righteousness”.

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

Five Thresholds

Because the Five Thresholds approach to relational evangelism helps us to pay careful attention to the people that the Lord brings our way, it is an excellent way to meet people “where they are”. We want to prayerfully help them move through each threshold and become followers of Jesus. At any given stage, we may be planting a seed or watering a seed that we or someone else has planted. At each stage, we should see ourselves, together with other believers, as a hospital for sick and wounded people.

Notes For 07/21/2024 Sermon

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Jul 212024
 

Luke 7: Faith, Compassion and Love – Part 3
Eva Clarke – Sunday July 21, 2024
© 2024 Life Church Ministries, Inc.

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Series Passage: Luke 7

Sermon Resources:

Current Material

Previous Material

Q&A and Discussion (for Communion Sundays)

Spend 1 – 2 minutes in silence before you begin each question.

Life Groups

Welcome (5-10 minutes)

Worship (optional for Sunday breakout sessions)

Word – Discussion Questions (if there are no specific questions use the default questions):

Spend 1 – 2 minutes in silence before you begin each question.

  • What is this passage saying to its original recipients?
  • What is God saying to you through this passage?
  • How can you apply this passage throughout the week?

Witness (check out the Witness section resources below):

How we work together as a team to be “good news” to the people around us.

Identify an accessible pool of unchurched people

If you’re going to make disciples, you’re going to have to spend time with people who don’t yet follow Jesus. Most people will be most effective in winning people with whom they’ve developed a relationship. Relationships develop best when you have frequent opportunities to interact. 

Who are the unchurched people that you connect with on a regular basis? Do a network map. You will need paper and something to write with for this exercise:

    • Think through the various organizations and groups that you connect with.
    • Review your personal calendar for the past week. Where were you each day and with whom did you spend time?
    • Review your personal calendar for the coming week. Where will you be each day and with whom will you be spending time?
    • Do a network map: InterVarsity: The 5 Thresholds Network Map
    • Now that you’ve generated a network map, what will you do with it? Here are some ideas:
      • Use it as a personal prayer list.
      • Share it with the members of your life group so that they can also pray for the salvation of the people on your list.
      • Work with your life group to plan an activity that will build your relationships with the people on your lists.
    • The following article has many great suggestions for successfully inviting people to events and activities:

Optional Witness Material

    • Have your missing members been called or visited this past week?
    • How can you help your life group leaders build up your group this week?
    • Is there someone that you need to talk to about Jesus this week?

Additional Life Group Meeting Components:

  • Reflection – Include a brief time (e.g. 2 minutes) for quiet reflection sometime during your meeting. Potential times for this are:
    • Just before reviewing the questions during the Word portion of the meeting.
    • Just before prayer during the Witness portion of the meeting.
    • Just after prayer during the Witness portion of the meeting.

Immediately after this reflection time, members may want to write down any thoughts or impressions that come to them and anything that they feel the Lord is saying to them or to anyone else. Encourage the members to consider how they might incorporate more reflection in their daily, weekly, and monthly routines.

  • Life Group Housekeeping (do this once a month or more often if needed)
    • Be familiar with our life group goals.
    • Review our connection tools: e-Life & the life group email list
      • Does everyone know how to use them?
      • Is everyone’s information up to date?
      • Is everyone receiving email from the life group email list?
    • Is anyone not showing up for Sunday service or life group meetings? If so, who has been in touch with them?
    • How will the group onboard the next visitor?

Word Section Default Questions

(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 you through this passage?”
  • Question 3: “How can you apply this passage throughout the week?”

Taken from:

Witness Section Resources:

How we work together as a team to be “good news” to the people around us.

Life Groups

Life groups are the basic environment in which discipleship will take place. A life group is a group of 3 – 15 believers who come together weekly outside of the church building for evangelism, community, and spiritual growth with the goal of making disciples who make disciples.

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! Becoming part of a life group is a major way that we “seek first God’s Kingdom and his righteousness”.

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

Five Thresholds

Because the Five Thresholds approach to relational evangelism helps us to pay careful attention to the people that the Lord brings our way, it is an excellent way to meet people “where they are”. We want to prayerfully help them move through each threshold and become followers of Jesus. At any given stage, we may be planting a seed or watering a seed that we or someone else has planted. At each stage, we should see ourselves, together with other believers, as a hospital for sick and wounded people.

Notes For 07/14/2024 Sermon

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Jul 122024
 

Luke 7: Faith, Compassion and Love – Part 2
Eva Clarke – Sunday July 14, 2024
© 2024 Life Church Ministries, Inc.

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Series Passage: Luke 7

Sermon Resources:

Current Material

Previous Material

Q&A and Discussion (for Communion Sundays)

Spend 1 – 2 minutes in silence before you begin each question.

Life Groups

Welcome (5-10 minutes)

Worship (optional for Sunday breakout sessions)

Word – Discussion Questions (if there are no specific questions use the default questions):

Spend 1 – 2 minutes in silence before you begin each question.

  • What is this passage saying?
  • What is God saying to you through this passage?
  • How can you apply this passage throughout the week?

Witness (check out the Witness section resources below):

How we work together as a team to be “good news” to the people around us.

Identify an accessible pool of unchurched people

If you’re going to make disciples, you’re going to have to spend time with people who don’t yet follow Jesus. Most people will be most effective in winning people with whom they’ve developed a relationship. Relationships develop best when you have frequent opportunities to interact. 

Who are the unchurched people that you connect with on a regular basis? Do a network map. You will need paper and something to write with for this exercise:

    • Think through the various organizations and groups that you connect with.
    • Review your personal calendar for the past week. Where were you each day and with whom did you spend time?
    • Review your personal calendar for the coming week. Where will you be each day and with whom will you be spending time?
    • Do a network map: InterVarsity: The 5 Thresholds Network Map
    • Now that you’ve generated a network map, what will you do with it? Here are some ideas:
      • Use it as a personal prayer list.
      • Share it with the members of your life group so that they can also pray for the salvation of the people on your list.
      • Work with your life group to plan an activity that will build your relationships with the people on your lists.
    • The following article has many great suggestions for successfully inviting people to events and activities:

Optional Witness Material

    • Have your missing members been called or visited this past week?
    • How can you help your life group leaders build up your group this week?
    • Is there someone that you need to talk to about Jesus this week?

Additional Life Group Meeting Components:

  • Reflection – Include a brief time (e.g. 2 minutes) for quiet reflection sometime during your meeting. Potential times for this are:
    • Just before reviewing the questions during the Word portion of the meeting.
    • Just before prayer during the Witness portion of the meeting.
    • Just after prayer during the Witness portion of the meeting.

Immediately after this reflection time, members may want to write down any thoughts or impressions that come to them and anything that they feel the Lord is saying to them or to anyone else. Encourage the members to consider how they might incorporate more reflection in their daily, weekly, and monthly routines.

  • Life Group Housekeeping (do this once a month or more often if needed)
    • Be familiar with our life group goals.
    • Review our connection tools: e-Life & the life group email list
      • Does everyone know how to use them?
      • Is everyone’s information up to date?
      • Is everyone receiving email from the life group email list?
    • Is anyone not showing up for Sunday service or life group meetings? If so, who has been in touch with them?
    • How will the group onboard the next visitor?

Word Section Default Questions

(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 you through this passage?”
  • Question 3: “How can you apply this passage throughout the week?”

Taken from:

Witness Section Resources:

How we work together as a team to be “good news” to the people around us.

Life Groups

Life groups are the basic environment in which discipleship will take place. A life group is a group of 3 – 15 believers who come together weekly outside of the church building for evangelism, community, and spiritual growth with the goal of making disciples who make disciples.

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! Becoming part of a life group is a major way that we “seek first God’s Kingdom and his righteousness”.

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

Five Thresholds

Because the Five Thresholds approach to relational evangelism helps us to pay careful attention to the people that the Lord brings our way, it is an excellent way to meet people “where they are”. We want to prayerfully help them move through each threshold and become followers of Jesus. At any given stage, we may be planting a seed or watering a seed that we or someone else has planted. At each stage, we should see ourselves, together with other believers, as a hospital for sick and wounded people.

Notes For 07/07/2024 Sermon

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Jul 072024
 

Luke 7: Faith, Compassion and Love – Part 1
Eva Clarke – Sunday July 7, 2024
© 2024 Life Church Ministries, Inc.

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Series Passage: Luke 7

Sermon Resources:

Current Material

Previous Material

Q&A and Discussion (for Communion Sundays)

Spend 1 – 2 minutes in silence before you begin each question.

Life Groups

Welcome (5-10 minutes)

Worship (optional for Sunday breakout sessions)

Word – Discussion Questions (if there are no specific questions use the default questions):

Spend 1 – 2 minutes in silence before you begin each question.

  • What is this passage saying?
  • What is God saying to you through this passage?
  • How can you apply this passage throughout the week?

Optional Questions

    • Discuss what it does and what it doesn’t mean to have faith in Jesus.
    • Discuss being Humble and Bold in our asking versus Proud and Timid.

Witness (check out the Witness section resources below):

How we work together as a team to be “good news” to the people around us.

Optional Witness Material

  • Have your missing members been called or visited this past week?
  • How can you help your life group leaders build up your group this week?
  • Is there someone that you need to talk to about Jesus this week?

Additional Life Group Meeting Components:

  • Reflection – Include a brief time (e.g. 2 minutes) for quiet reflection sometime during your meeting. Potential times for this are:
    • Just before reviewing the questions during the Word portion of the meeting.
    • Just before prayer during the Witness portion of the meeting.
    • Just after prayer during the Witness portion of the meeting.

Immediately after this reflection time, members may want to write down any thoughts or impressions that come to them and anything that they feel the Lord is saying to them or to anyone else. Encourage the members to consider how they might incorporate more reflection in their daily, weekly, and monthly routines.

  • Life Group Housekeeping (do this once a month or more often if needed)
    • Be familiar with our life group goals.
    • Review our connection tools: e-Life & the life group email list
      • Does everyone know how to use them?
      • Is everyone’s information up to date?
      • Is everyone receiving email from the life group email list?
    • Is anyone not showing up for Sunday service or life group meetings? If so, who has been in touch with them?
    • How will the group onboard the next visitor?

Word Section Default Questions

(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 you through this passage?”
  • Question 3: “How can you apply this passage throughout the week?”

Taken from:

Witness Section Resources:

How we work together as a team to be “good news” to the people around us.

Life Groups

Life groups are the basic environment in which discipleship will take place. A life group is a group of 3 – 15 believers who come together weekly outside of the church building for evangelism, community, and spiritual growth with the goal of making disciples who make disciples.

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! Becoming part of a life group is a major way that we “seek first God’s Kingdom and his righteousness”.

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

Five Thresholds

Because the Five Thresholds approach to relational evangelism helps us to pay careful attention to the people that the Lord brings our way, it is an excellent way to meet people “where they are”. We want to prayerfully help them move through each threshold and become followers of Jesus. At any given stage, we may be planting a seed or watering a seed that we or someone else has planted. At each stage, we should see ourselves, together with other believers, as a hospital for sick and wounded people.

Notes For 06/30/2024 Sermon

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Jun 292024
 

Luke 6: The Trial of the Centuries – Week 5
Michael Dixon – Sunday June 30, 2024
© 2024 Life Church Ministries, Inc.

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Series Passage: Luke 6

Sermon Resources:

Current Material

Previous Material

Q&A and Discussion (for Communion Sundays)

Spend 1 – 2 minutes in silence before you begin each question.

Life Groups

Welcome (5-10 minutes)

Worship (optional for Sunday breakout sessions)

Word – Discussion Questions (if there are no specific questions use the default questions):

Spend 1 – 2 minutes in silence before you begin each question.

  • This month we heard about the Trial of Man- we lost authority over the Earth as part of the punishment, The Trial of God- God had a  lot of losses on this, but a couple of major wins- Job and Jesus.  Rules didn’t help, getting rid of “sinners” didn’t help, having a king after God’s own heart didn’t help… God won this trial through Jesus and it brought about the Final Trial- the Trial of the Rebellious. Satan Loss this trial, and now is trying to take as many as he can with him to his consequence- Hell- using temptation and accusation.  How should be living as a result of the trials

  • We are NEW CREATURES and have the RIGHTEOUSNESS OF CHRIST.. How should this impact how we use our Freedom, see ourselves and share with others?

  • They shall know we are Christians- non rebellious ones, but  our love…  How can this love come more naturally for us, and how can we meet people where they are, not where we want them to be?

  • Anything else from this month that stands out, or you have a question about?

Witness (check out the Witness section resources below):

How we work together as a team to be “good news” to the people around us.

  •  How is your group doing? Is anyone missing? Do they know you care?
  • What are you doing to make your life group safe, healthy, and effective?
  • Identify people you are in a position to reach for Jesus this week. Pray for them.

Additional Life Group Meeting Components:

  • Reflection – Include a brief time (e.g. 2 minutes) for quiet reflection sometime during your meeting. Potential times for this are:
    • Just before reviewing the questions during the Word portion of the meeting.
    • Just before prayer during the Witness portion of the meeting.
    • Just after prayer during the Witness portion of the meeting.

Immediately after this reflection time, members may want to write down any thoughts or impressions that come to them and anything that they feel the Lord is saying to them or to anyone else. Encourage the members to consider how they might incorporate more reflection in their daily, weekly, and monthly routines.

  • Life Group Housekeeping (do this once a month or more often if needed)
    • Be familiar with our life group goals.
    • Review our connection tools: e-Life & the life group email list
      • Does everyone know how to use them?
      • Is everyone’s information up to date?
      • Is everyone receiving email from the life group email list?
    • Is anyone not showing up for Sunday service or life group meetings? If so, who has been in touch with them?
    • How will the group onboard the next visitor?

Word Section Default Questions

(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 you through this passage?”
  • Question 3: “How can you apply this passage throughout the week?”

Taken from:

Witness Section Resources:

How we work together as a team to be “good news” to the people around us.

Life Groups

Life groups are the basic environment in which discipleship will take place. A life group is a group of 3 – 15 believers who come together weekly outside of the church building for evangelism, community, and spiritual growth with the goal of making disciples who make disciples.

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! Becoming part of a life group is a major way that we “seek first God’s Kingdom and his righteousness”.

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

Five Thresholds

Because the Five Thresholds approach to relational evangelism helps us to pay careful attention to the people that the Lord brings our way, it is an excellent way to meet people “where they are”. We want to prayerfully help them move through each threshold and become followers of Jesus. At any given stage, we may be planting a seed or watering a seed that we or someone else has planted. At each stage, we should see ourselves, together with other believers, as a hospital for sick and wounded people.

Notes For 06/23/2024 Sermon

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Jun 222024
 

Luke 6: The Trial of the Centuries – Week 4
Michael Dixon – Sunday June 23, 2024
© 2024 Life Church Ministries, Inc.

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Series Passage: Luke 6

Sermon Resources:

Current Material

Previous Material

Q&A and Discussion (for Communion Sundays)

Spend 1 – 2 minutes in silence before you begin each question.

Life Groups

Welcome (5-10 minutes)

Worship (optional for Sunday breakout sessions)

Word – Discussion Questions (if there are no specific questions use the default questions):

Spend 1 – 2 minutes in silence before you begin each question.

  • This month we heard about the Trial of Man- we lost authority over the Earth as part of the punishment, The Trial of God- God had a  lot of losses on this, but a couple of major wins- Job and Jesus.  Rules didn’t help, getting rid of “sinners” didn’t help, having a king after God’s own heart didn’t help… God won this trial through Jesus and it brought about the Final Trial- the Trial of the Rebellious. Satan Loss this trial, and now is trying to take as many as he can with him to his consequence- Hell- using temptation and accusation.  How should be living as a result of the trials

  • We are NEW CREATURES and have the RIGHTEOUSNESS OF CHRIST.. How should this impact how we use our Freedom, see ourselves and share with others?

  • They shall know we are Christians- non rebellious ones, but  our love…  How can this love come more naturally for us, and how can we meet people where they are, not where we want them to be?

  • Anything else from this month that stands out, or you have a question about?

Witness (check out the Witness section resources below):

How we work together as a team to be “good news” to the people around us.

  •  How is your group doing? Is anyone missing? Do they know you care?
  • What are you doing to make your life group safe, healthy, and effective?
  • Identify people you are in a position to reach for Jesus this week. Pray for them.

Additional Life Group Meeting Components:

  • Reflection – Include a brief time (e.g. 2 minutes) for quiet reflection sometime during your meeting. Potential times for this are:
    • Just before reviewing the questions during the Word portion of the meeting.
    • Just before prayer during the Witness portion of the meeting.
    • Just after prayer during the Witness portion of the meeting.

Immediately after this reflection time, members may want to write down any thoughts or impressions that come to them and anything that they feel the Lord is saying to them or to anyone else. Encourage the members to consider how they might incorporate more reflection in their daily, weekly, and monthly routines.

  • Life Group Housekeeping (do this once a month or more often if needed)
    • Be familiar with our life group goals.
    • Review our connection tools: e-Life & the life group email list
      • Does everyone know how to use them?
      • Is everyone’s information up to date?
      • Is everyone receiving email from the life group email list?
    • Is anyone not showing up for Sunday service or life group meetings? If so, who has been in touch with them?
    • How will the group onboard the next visitor?

Word Section Default Questions

(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 you through this passage?”
  • Question 3: “How can you apply this passage throughout the week?”

Taken from:

Witness Section Resources:

How we work together as a team to be “good news” to the people around us.

Life Groups

Life groups are the basic environment in which discipleship will take place. A life group is a group of 3 – 15 believers who come together weekly outside of the church building for evangelism, community, and spiritual growth with the goal of making disciples who make disciples.

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! Becoming part of a life group is a major way that we “seek first God’s Kingdom and his righteousness”.

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

Five Thresholds

Because the Five Thresholds approach to relational evangelism helps us to pay careful attention to the people that the Lord brings our way, it is an excellent way to meet people “where they are”. We want to prayerfully help them move through each threshold and become followers of Jesus. At any given stage, we may be planting a seed or watering a seed that we or someone else has planted. At each stage, we should see ourselves, together with other believers, as a hospital for sick and wounded people.

Notes For 06/16/2024 Sermon

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Jun 152024
 

Luke 6: The Trial of the Centuries – Week 3
Michael Dixon – Sunday June 16, 2024
© 2024 Life Church Ministries, Inc.

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Series Passage: Luke 6

Sermon Resources:

Current Material

Previous Material

Q&A and Discussion (for Communion Sundays)

Spend 1 – 2 minutes in silence before you begin each question.

Life Groups

Welcome (5-10 minutes)

Worship (optional for Sunday breakout sessions)

Word – Discussion Questions (if there are no specific questions use the default questions):

Spend 1 – 2 minutes in silence before you begin each question.

  • Abram had his name Changed, Lucifer had his name changed.  How does Loving as God on his terms or not, change our name?  What name would you like to have?  Loving Father, A sharer of the faith, one who stands up for what is right, etc.?
  • What is the difference between judging people and judging their actions (that cause harm)?
  • Love covers a multitude of sins (I Pet 4:8), but it doesn’t cover rebellion.  Ex. Bronze Serpent… People sinned and were judged, but all they had to do is look, but some could have chosen not to… What does a rebellious Spirit look like?  What should you do  in  this regard?  Is the Prodigal son an example of this?
  • Some people have tough relationships with their fathers or father       figures, instead of protecting caused harm. How can God’s Call to love your enemy be applied to this or others that are hard to love?
  • The more we know God, the more it is more natural to love as He does?  What are some things that get in the way of us knowing God? Have you seen someone’s heart get hardened?  How Can you help soften it?  What are some Limits to what you can do?

Witness (check out the Witness section resources below):

How we work together as a team to be “good news” to the people around us.

  •  How is your group doing? Is anyone missing? Do they know you care?
  • What are you doing to make your life group safe, healthy, and effective?
  • Identify people you are in a position to reach for Jesus this week. Pray for them.

Additional Life Group Meeting Components:

  • Reflection – Include a brief time (e.g. 2 minutes) for quiet reflection sometime during your meeting. Potential times for this are:
    • Just before reviewing the questions during the Word portion of the meeting.
    • Just before prayer during the Witness portion of the meeting.
    • Just after prayer during the Witness portion of the meeting.

Immediately after this reflection time, members may want to write down any thoughts or impressions that come to them and anything that they feel the Lord is saying to them or to anyone else. Encourage the members to consider how they might incorporate more reflection in their daily, weekly, and monthly routines.

  • Life Group Housekeeping (do this once a month or more often if needed)
    • Be familiar with our life group goals.
    • Review our connection tools: e-Life & the life group email list
      • Does everyone know how to use them?
      • Is everyone’s information up to date?
      • Is everyone receiving email from the life group email list?
    • Is anyone not showing up for Sunday service or life group meetings? If so, who has been in touch with them?
    • How will the group onboard the next visitor?

Word Section Default Questions

(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 you through this passage?”
  • Question 3: “How can you apply this passage throughout the week?”

Taken from:

Witness Section Resources:

How we work together as a team to be “good news” to the people around us.

Life Groups

Life groups are the basic environment in which discipleship will take place. A life group is a group of 3 – 15 believers who come together weekly outside of the church building for evangelism, community, and spiritual growth with the goal of making disciples who make disciples.

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! Becoming part of a life group is a major way that we “seek first God’s Kingdom and his righteousness”.

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

Five Thresholds

Because the Five Thresholds approach to relational evangelism helps us to pay careful attention to the people that the Lord brings our way, it is an excellent way to meet people “where they are”. We want to prayerfully help them move through each threshold and become followers of Jesus. At any given stage, we may be planting a seed or watering a seed that we or someone else has planted. At each stage, we should see ourselves, together with other believers, as a hospital for sick and wounded people.

Notes For 06/09/2024 Sermon

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Jun 092024
 

Luke 6: The Trial of the Centuries – Week 2
Michael Dixon – Sunday June 9, 2024
© 2024 Life Church Ministries, Inc.

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

Series Passage: Luke 6

Sermon Resources:

Current Material

Previous Material

Q&A and Discussion (for Communion Sundays)

Spend 1 – 2 minutes in silence before you begin each question.

Life Groups

Welcome (5-10 minutes)

Worship (optional for Sunday breakout sessions)

Word – Discussion Questions (if there are no specific questions use the default questions):

Spend 1 – 2 minutes in silence before you begin each question.

  • How do angels and their choices similar and different from the choices we can make?
  • Why is it that we cannot be saved by good works? Eph 2:8-9?
  • From the Video if the High priest has filthy clothes, what does that mean for us?
  • What Does Rebellion look like in Today’s Culture? Why should we emphasize rebellion -to not accept the new clothes Christ offers more than just sin? Christ is a Doctor.. Sin is an inherited disease that Kills us, not just choices we make. Rebellion is a choice… Accepting Pardon is a choice… What things often get in the way of people accepting Christ’s Pardon and healing?
  • What is the fruit of Healthy Choices we and others make for the kingdom?

Witness (check out the Witness section resources below):

How we work together as a team to be “good news” to the people around us.

  • Have your missing members been called or visited this past week?
  • How can you help your life group leaders build up your group this week?
  • Is there someone that you need to talk to about Jesus this week?

Additional Life Group Meeting Components:

  • Reflection – Include a brief time (e.g. 2 minutes) for quiet reflection sometime during your meeting. Potential times for this are:
    • Just before reviewing the questions during the Word portion of the meeting.
    • Just before prayer during the Witness portion of the meeting.
    • Just after prayer during the Witness portion of the meeting.

Immediately after this reflection time, members may want to write down any thoughts or impressions that come to them and anything that they feel the Lord is saying to them or to anyone else. Encourage the members to consider how they might incorporate more reflection in their daily, weekly, and monthly routines.

  • Life Group Housekeeping (do this once a month or more often if needed)
    • Be familiar with our life group goals.
    • Review our connection tools: e-Life & the life group email list
      • Does everyone know how to use them?
      • Is everyone’s information up to date?
      • Is everyone receiving email from the life group email list?
    • Is anyone not showing up for Sunday service or life group meetings? If so, who has been in touch with them?
    • How will the group onboard the next visitor?

Word Section Default Questions

(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 you through this passage?”
  • Question 3: “How can you apply this passage throughout the week?”

Taken from:

Witness Section Resources:

How we work together as a team to be “good news” to the people around us.

Life Groups

Life groups are the basic environment in which discipleship will take place. A life group is a group of 3 – 15 believers who come together weekly outside of the church building for evangelism, community, and spiritual growth with the goal of making disciples who make disciples.

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! Becoming part of a life group is a major way that we “seek first God’s Kingdom and his righteousness”.

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

Five Thresholds

Because the Five Thresholds approach to relational evangelism helps us to pay careful attention to the people that the Lord brings our way, it is an excellent way to meet people “where they are”. We want to prayerfully help them move through each threshold and become followers of Jesus. At any given stage, we may be planting a seed or watering a seed that we or someone else has planted. At each stage, we should see ourselves, together with other believers, as a hospital for sick and wounded people.

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Jun 012024
 

The Trial of the Centuries
Michael Dixon – Sunday June 2, 2024
© 2024 Life Church Ministries, Inc.

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Use the QR code below
to share this page.

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

Series Passage: Luke 6

Sermon Resources:

Current Material

Previous Material

Q&A and Discussion (no life groups today)

Spend 1 – 2 minutes in silence before you begin each question.

  • What is the Purpose of a Trial to you?
  • From the Video on Satan’s Story, what sticks out?
  • God’s Justice is balanced and part of His Love and Mercy…  What does this look like in practice?
  • A Friend says they cannot trust a God who allows or even causes bad things to happen to innocent people- What do you say to them?
  • Bonus Question… Why did God Create Hell? We don’t focus on trying to get people to avoid Hell, but to join God’s Kingdom, but what do you share with someone with Questions about Hell?

Life Groups (from 05/26/2024)

Welcome (5-10 minutes)

Worship (optional for Sunday breakout sessions)

Word – Discussion Questions (if there are no specific questions use the default questions):

Spend 1 – 2 minutes in silence before you begin each question.

  • How does Jesus’ self-image compare with that of other leaders we admire?
  • What ways of “doing church” aren’t producing disciples or community?
  • What progress are you making with our Life Church Training Plan?
  • How are you progressing at making your life group fully functional?

Witness (check out the Witness section resources below):

How we work together as a team to be “good news” to the people around us.

  • Have your missing members been called or visited this past week?
  • How can you help your life group leaders build up your group this week?
  • Is there someone that you need to talk to about Jesus this week?

Additional Life Group Meeting Components:

  • Reflection – Include a brief time (e.g. 2 minutes) for quiet reflection sometime during your meeting. Potential times for this are:
    • Just before reviewing the questions during the Word portion of the meeting.
    • Just before prayer during the Witness portion of the meeting.
    • Just after prayer during the Witness portion of the meeting.

Immediately after this reflection time, members may want to write down any thoughts or impressions that come to them and anything that they feel the Lord is saying to them or to anyone else. Encourage the members to consider how they might incorporate more reflection in their daily, weekly, and monthly routines.

  • Life Group Housekeeping (do this once a month or more often if needed)
    • Be familiar with our life group goals.
    • Review our connection tools: e-Life & the life group email list
      • Does everyone know how to use them?
      • Is everyone’s information up to date?
      • Is everyone receiving email from the life group email list?
    • Is anyone not showing up for Sunday service or life group meetings? If so, who has been in touch with them?
    • How will the group onboard the next visitor?

Word Section Default Questions

(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 you through this passage?”
  • Question 3: “How can you apply this passage throughout the week?”

Taken from:

Witness Section Resources:

How we work together as a team to be “good news” to the people around us.

Life Groups

Life groups are the basic environment in which discipleship will take place. A life group is a group of 3 – 15 believers who come together weekly outside of the church building for evangelism, community, and spiritual growth with the goal of making disciples who make disciples.

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! Becoming part of a life group is a major way that we “seek first God’s Kingdom and his righteousness”.

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

Five Thresholds

Because the Five Thresholds approach to relational evangelism helps us to pay careful attention to the people that the Lord brings our way, it is an excellent way to meet people “where they are”. We want to prayerfully help them move through each threshold and become followers of Jesus. At any given stage, we may be planting a seed or watering a seed that we or someone else has planted. At each stage, we should see ourselves, together with other believers, as a hospital for sick and wounded people.

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May 262024
 

Jesus & Wineskins
Rocklyn Clarke – Sunday May 26, 2024
© 2024 Life Church Ministries, Inc.

Helpful Links:

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

Series Passage: Luke 5

Sermon Resources:

Current Material

Previous Material

Life Groups

Welcome (5-10 minutes)

Worship (optional for Sunday breakout sessions)

Word – Discussion Questions (if there are no specific questions use the default questions):

Spend 1 – 2 minutes in silence before you begin each question.

  • How does Jesus’ self-image compare with that of other leaders we admire?
  • What ways of “doing church” aren’t producing disciples or community?
  • What progress are you making with our Life Church Training Plan?
  • How are you progressing at making your life group fully functional?

Witness (check out the Witness section resources below):

How we work together as a team to be “good news” to the people around us.

  • Have your missing members been called or visited this past week?
  • How can you help your life group leaders build up your group this week?
  • Is there someone that you need to talk to about Jesus this week?

Additional Life Group Meeting Components:

  • Reflection – Include a brief time (e.g. 2 minutes) for quiet reflection sometime during your meeting. Potential times for this are:
    • Just before reviewing the questions during the Word portion of the meeting.
    • Just before prayer during the Witness portion of the meeting.
    • Just after prayer during the Witness portion of the meeting.

Immediately after this reflection time, members may want to write down any thoughts or impressions that come to them and anything that they feel the Lord is saying to them or to anyone else. Encourage the members to consider how they might incorporate more reflection in their daily, weekly, and monthly routines.

  • Life Group Housekeeping (do this once a month or more often if needed)
    • Be familiar with our life group goals.
    • Review our connection tools: e-Life & the life group email list
      • Does everyone know how to use them?
      • Is everyone’s information up to date?
      • Is everyone receiving email from the life group email list?
    • Is anyone not showing up for Sunday service or life group meetings? If so, who has been in touch with them?
    • How will the group onboard the next visitor?

Word Section Default Questions

(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 you through this passage?”
  • Question 3: “How can you apply this passage throughout the week?”

Taken from:

Witness Section Resources:

How we work together as a team to be “good news” to the people around us.

Life Groups

Life groups are the basic environment in which discipleship will take place. A life group is a group of 3 – 15 believers who come together weekly outside of the church building for evangelism, community, and spiritual growth with the goal of making disciples who make disciples.

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! Becoming part of a life group is a major way that we “seek first God’s Kingdom and his righteousness”.

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

Five Thresholds

Because the Five Thresholds approach to relational evangelism helps us to pay careful attention to the people that the Lord brings our way, it is an excellent way to meet people “where they are”. We want to prayerfully help them move through each threshold and become followers of Jesus. At any given stage, we may be planting a seed or watering a seed that we or someone else has planted. At each stage, we should see ourselves, together with other believers, as a hospital for sick and wounded people.

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