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Despite my bleak contribution to Simon Jones’ excellent critic of “attractional” mission, I have (in time for Back to Church Sunday) been thinking about enhancing our welcoming and stewarding. To that end I’ve dipped into First Impressions by Mark Waltz. Waltz argues that guests to church services want, when they arrive, to know two things from [...] 1. Knowing who we are is a key part of knowing where to minister. So complete the worksheet: Style Assessment. Although very simple, it gives surprisingly accurate answers. Then us the interpretive sheet – to discover more about how you will server. Share your results with the others – it’s usually a really enjoyable part [...] I came across this list recently and was mightily impressed about how our personality determines our response in prayer, and greatly challenged by the need to spend more time co-operating with myself in prayer.
Use the Myers-Briggs test results to find your prayer type.
Sensing Types ISTJ ISFJ Like to spend time alone with God Like to pray alone May [...] Adrian is preaching on Sunday but I thought I’d still blog the cell outline, in case it is helpful for those not at their cell group this week.
1. Use the Spiritual Gifts (Gifts Matching) worksheet and the Spiritual Gifts Guide to clarify your understanding of Spiritual Gifts. The aim is for you to get a really [...] 1. There Must be a Better Way We will not motivate people by guilt but by helping them discover their spiritual passion, discover their spiritual gifts and discover you they are.
2. Discovering our Passion is like doing a Jigsaw, we don’t need more pieces, we just need to sort them out and put them together. 3. Passion is [...] I don’t often come back to an overlong sermon with a sense that I should perhaps have said even more. Today I took time to recap the previous four weeks and then still managed to run out of time on the new teaching. Grrrr!! As a result, I wasn’t sure that I’d given an adequate [...] RECAP •What are spiritual gifts? Charismata (1 Cor 12:4) Diakonia (v5) Energenata (v6)Given to be used and seen to be used (1 Cor 15:28) •What is the body of Christ? –Not ‘like’, but are (1 Cor 12:27, 5:30-31)! –Made up of unique members (1 Cor 12:14) •What is worship? –Worship (proskyneo) when the church gathers (John 4:20ff; Acts 2; 1 Cor 12 [...] These are some notes from a seminar I led recently on prayer ministry.
God’s view of “dis-ease” We are placed between two conditions of man. There was no dis-ease in the Garden. Although the verdict is open as to whether there was an ecosystem in the same way as we know it, for example the food chain.
Nor with there [...] 1 Corinthians 14 34-35 deals with an aspect of the participation of married women in worship. These verses forcefully forbid women to speak in church. If they have questions they are to ask their husbands at home. They appear to directly contradict 1 Corinthians 11:5 where it is clear that women can and do pray and [...] Understanding worship 101 What is worship? –A common expression –Worship (latreia) all the time (Romans 12.1-2) –Worship (proskyneo) when the church gathers (John 4:20ff; Acts 2; 1 Cor 12 11; 14:26)
What it isn’t! –Audience –Acting (Psalm 22:3) But it is associating with heaven’s worship (Rev 4:1-7:17)! Hymns and teaching and revelation and tongues and interpretation (v26-28) Weighing and [...] |
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