Life Group Family & Friends:
This was a very enjoyable week for me while preparing this lesson on spiritual gifts. We had 16 members of our LG complete the spiritual gifts survey, we had a men's prayer meeting before church, and it was incredible watching our life group discuss the purpose of spiritual gifts. The realization of each of us being used by God for His glory was special to be a part of on Saturday. We are the body, a special mural.
Paul gave us 3 purposes for spiritual gifts:
1. Prepare God's people for works of service
2. Build up the body of Christ
3. So that we all might become mature believers
My challenge to you this week is to ask God to talk to you about your spiritual gifts. Then listen.
Know that you are gifted. Believe that you are different from the world. Where can you serve? What are your gifts? How is your life different because of these gifts? How can you rely on God the Spirit?
Be Intentional.
Travis
LIFE GROUPS: You don’t have to be a member of the church to join one of Lake Pointe’s small groups called Life Groups…it’s “the church within the church”. Life Groups are made up of people with similar ages or family structures meeting together for: •Living For Others | Mission/Ministry •Interactive Bible Study •Fellowship •Encouragement This is where real, life-enriching relationships can form and develop.
Monday, July 29, 2013
Monday, July 22, 2013
Life Group Weekly Challenge
LG Family & Friends:
Great discussion on Saturday night. When I have sections of my outline that we do not use during class, that means we had a lot of discussion in LG. I had another 30 minutes of material to cover in my lesson. I prefer to have the discussion rather than me talking. Especially when I tell a story about Rasputin and I hear a lot of crickets chirping!!!
Our focus in LG was on Legalism & Liberty. Paul tells us that the cross made us free, not to go back into slavery, don't be burdened or yoked by doing religious activities in place of relationship, we should not sin more to get more grace, and to enjoy our freedom in Christ but not make it a license to sin.
Galatians 5:13 tells us to use our freedom as an opportunity to serve each other with love.
Liberty + Love = Service.
My challenge to you this week is talk to your spouse and then to the rest of your accountability team to identify areas in your life where legalism is taking precedence over liberty.
Be intentional.
Travis
Great discussion on Saturday night. When I have sections of my outline that we do not use during class, that means we had a lot of discussion in LG. I had another 30 minutes of material to cover in my lesson. I prefer to have the discussion rather than me talking. Especially when I tell a story about Rasputin and I hear a lot of crickets chirping!!!
Our focus in LG was on Legalism & Liberty. Paul tells us that the cross made us free, not to go back into slavery, don't be burdened or yoked by doing religious activities in place of relationship, we should not sin more to get more grace, and to enjoy our freedom in Christ but not make it a license to sin.
Galatians 5:13 tells us to use our freedom as an opportunity to serve each other with love.
Liberty + Love = Service.
My challenge to you this week is talk to your spouse and then to the rest of your accountability team to identify areas in your life where legalism is taking precedence over liberty.
Be intentional.
Travis
Sunday, July 14, 2013
Life Group Weekly Challenge
Life Group
Family & Friends:
We discussed
the sin in our life and how we are forgiven.
We are free from the penalty of sin, free from the power of sin, and at
some point we will be free from the presence of sin. We can use God’s example of forgiveness so we
can forgive others. Or maybe we need to
forgive ourselves and give it all to the one who died for us.
In the
Fireproof clip, Caleb was dealing with the lust of the eyes (boat) and lust of
the flesh (porn). When he identified the “parasites” for what they were, he
chose to honor God. In the movie he took
a drastic or dramatic measure by taking the computer outside and destroying it
with a baseball bat.
My challenge
to you this week is to determine what dramatic measure you need to take to deal
with the sin in your life. Maybe it
involves an object, an addiction, an unhealthy relationship, etc. Whatever it is take steps this week to live
in the freedom of God’s forgiving grace.
Then follow his example for others.
Be
Intentional.
Travis
Travis
Sunday, July 7, 2013
Weekly Challenge
1) Draw near to God
2) Hold on to the hope we profess
3) Spur one another on to good works
4) Meet together
5) Encourage one another
During our discussion we determined that it is impossible to do 2-5 if we do not first draw near to God. Furthermore, it is impossible to do 2, 3, and 5 if we do not meet together (number 4). But we must always remember that our purpose in everything we do is to ultimately bring people to Christ. It is easy to make "meeting together" the end game when really it is a means to the end of making disciples and glorifying God.
The challenge:
1) Prayerfully consider where "meeting together" with your faith family falls in your priority list and determine what might need to change in your life to properly align your priorities.
2) Pray that our class would be intentional about making our activities be about bringing others to Christ, whether we are engaging in weekend LG time at church, social functions, service projects, growth groups, etc.
In Him,
Aaron
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