Week 6- Minister to Others. Leader notes
1. How do yu feel when you realize Christ has said you will experience rejection when you witness and minister in His name? How do you feel when you relaize christ has promised to send the Holy Spirit to help you?
2. Did anybody ever tell you about this when you were saved?
3. Share a time when you experience Holy boldness.
4, how would you stay connected to the vine if you bibles and the opportunity to worship freely were taken away.
5. Voice a sentence prayer for YOURSELF. Listen how we pray and pray for us accorningly in the future.
6:1
"Beware of practicing
your righteousness before men to be noticed by them; otherwise you have no
reward with your Father who is in heaven.
6:2
"When therefore you
give alms, do not sound a trumpet
before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that
they may be honored by men. Truly I say to you, they have their reward in full.
6:3
"But when you give alms,
do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing
6:4
that your alms may be in secret; and your Father who
sees in secret will repay you.
6. What do you think this says
about our ministry? Should we desire to be recognized or even thanked for our
ministry to others? should we keep an account of our ministry?
The giving of alms is also one use
of the work diakonos, charis, shawreth in Hebrew.
7. Why do you think that John 17,
Jesus’s High Priestly prayer,
is presented in Discipleship 101 in the context of ministry to others?
8. Is is now not our nature to abide in Christ? Or are we still “prone to
wander, prone to leave the God I love?”
9. What is intercession in your
own words.
10. page 124- are these really
PERSONAL ministries?
11. My yoke is easy and my burden
is light. Explain this in the light of what we have studied this week. In light of all the ways a Christian
can be persecuted, how is this true?
12.If we were all made for ministry- what is the Biblical role of full time vocational ministers and how does this impact our ministries?