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WHAT IS A CHURCH WITHOUT WALLS?
Bible study notes will be uploaded each week
Week 2- A Church without Walls know Love
Week 3- A Church without walls hears God’s voice
Week 4- A Church without walls shows love
Week 5- A Church without walls has attitude
Week 6- No notes
Week 7- A Church without walls receives help
LENT COURSE 2013
BECOMING A CHURCH WITHOUT WALLS, A GROWING CHURCH
A Church Without Walls is a church that seeks (1) to remove unnecessary barriers that may hinder people from being attracted into our church, and (2) that becomes very intentional about going out to serve where people are in the world.
May God also speak to each of us as we listen to him during these weeks of Lent 2013.
Click to download 5 week Lent Course
Amos and the Just Society
World Vision
The book of Amos deals with the issue of social justice.
This series authored by World Vision looks at 4 significant passages from the prophet Amos and seeks to help us be people of action in regards to justice.
Holy Spirit More
Francis Chan
‘Holy Spirit More’ is a course that is designed to help you deepen your relationship with the Holy Spirit. Reflecting on His power to work in and through you, we will look at various bible passages and discuss issues that may arise, seeking to understand how He works in our present age. We need to open ourselves to allow more of Him and His power to work in our lives. Before you start, ask yourself if you really want to be changed. Studying the most powerful being imaginable is bound to make you uneasy about certain aspects of your life. It is impossible to encounter the Holy Spirit of God and not be changed.
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Leaders
Session 1: Introduction- Is there more?
Session 2: Repentance- Space for more?
Session 3: Eagerness- Wanting more?
Session 4: Prayer- Asking for more?
Session 5: Taking- Drinking more?
Session 6: Yielding- Open for more?
Session 7: Ministry & Evangelism- Serving & Going more?
Participants
Session 1: Introduction- Is there more?
Session 2: Repentance- Space for more?
Session 3: Eagerness- Wanting more?
Session 4: Prayer- Asking for more?
Session 5: Taking- Drinking more?
Session 6: Yielding- Open for more?
Session 7: Ministry & Evangelism- Serving & Going more?
Contact Matt or Ben for a copy of the DVD.
Becoming a Mission Shaped Church
Ben Aldous
Becoming a Mission Shaped Church is a six-session series that Ben prepared for the 2012 Diocese Lent Course. The course looks at what it means to be truly missional as the Body of Christ and explores culture, fear, healing, evangelism and action.
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Session 1: Mission Impossible?
Session 4: Mission as Evangelism
Session 5: Mission as Incarnation
Session 6: Mission as Advocacy
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2012 Vision Lent Series
Mike Skevington
Our 2012 Vision Lent Series is a seven-week course that explores the essence of our new vision: “To stay ROOTED in our unchanging God as we SERVE a changing society.”
Our vision is based on a principle of managing tensions. In the church we often find that there are diverse and opposing views and in certain situations, the mistake that we can make is to treat these views as "either/or" or "right and wrong" and make a choice between one or the other. Instead, what we need to do is treat these views as "both/and" acknowledging that they both hold merit and should therefore be retained and held in tension.
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Ephesians: Sit. Walk. Stand.
Adapted from HTB
“Ephesians: Sit. Walk. Stand” is a five-session course on Paul’s letter to the Ephesians that offers an all-encompassing manual to the Christian life. Watchman Nee, a missionary and theologian, famously coined the three sections in Ephesians as ‘Sit. Walk. Stand.’ and this series is based on these three titles.
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Session 1: Identity - Knowing our identity in Christ
Session 2: Knowing - Knowing our inheritance in Christ
Session 3: Body - Christ's body in the world
Session 4: Witness - Our individual lives as living witnesses
Session 5: Family - We are family
Session 6: Battle - Standing against the enemy
Contact Matt or Ben for a copy of the DVD.
Gospel in Life
Timothy Keller
Gospel in Life is an eight-session course on the gospel and how to live it out in all of life - first in our hearts, then in community, and ultimately out into the world.
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Session 1: City - The world that is
Session 2: Heart - Three ways to live
Session 3: Idolatry - The sin beneath the sin
Session 4: Community - The context for change
Session 5: Witness - An alternate city
Session 6: Work - Cultivating the garden
Session 7: Justice - A people for others
Session 8: Eternity - The world that is to come
Contact Matt or Ben for a copy of the DVD.
The Land Between
Jeff Manion
In this five-week series based on the book The Land Between, we will look at the biblical story of the Israelite’s journey through the Sinai desert as a metaphor for being in an undesired, transitional space. After enduring generations of slavery in Egypt, the descendants of Jacob travel through the wilderness (“the land between”) toward their new home in Canaan. They crave the food of their former home in Egypt and despise their present environment. They are unable to go back and incapable of moving forward.
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Leaders
Particpants
Contact Matt or Ben for a copy of the DVD.
Simple: Studies in Mark
Andy Stanley
Simple: Studies in Mark is a six week series based on the teachings of Jesus, as recorded in the Gospel of Mark. In a time when religious leaders and a religious system made it increasingly complicated to connect with God, a teacher appeared whose message was profoundly... simple. Jesus arrived on the stage of world events and announced that God’s intent was to connect with, not confuse, mankind. To those who were considered most distant from God, Jesus offered this simple invitation, “Follow Me.” People who accepted his offer found themselves captivated by an extraordinary faith leading them to adopt a lifestyle that turned the world upside down.
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Leaders
Participants
Contact Matt or Ben for a copy of the DVD.
God wants you to be rich
Ben Aldous
A 3 week audio series thinking about prosperity, suffering and the providence of God.
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Download sessions:
Session 1: God wants you to be rich
Session 2: The problem with evil
Session 3: The kingdom & suffering
Leaders:
Session 1: God wants you to be rich
Session 2: The problem with evil
Session 3: The kingdom & suffering
Participants:
Session 1: God wants you to be rich
Session 2: The problem with evil
Session 3: The kingdom & suffering
God's Heart for Children
Ben Aldous
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Session 2: Jesus, Children and the Kingdom of God
Session 3: Your Child's Spirituality
The Resurrection
Ben Aldous
A 3 part series looking at the implications of the resurrection.
Session 2: Resurrection HEAVEN
Click here for Tom Wright YouTube clip
Small group leaders meeting
Notes for leaders
Releasing the potential in Small groups
Developing the care ministry in your small group
Biblical Clues to a New Economy
Dr Ulrich Duchrow, Professor of Systematic Theology, Heidelberg University
Download Biblical Clues to a New Economy by Dr Ulrich Duchrow, Professor of Systematic Theology, Heidelberg University, Germany.
This article is the transcript of the talk given by Professor Duchrow at the Eye of the Needle – Biblical Clues to a New Economy Conference on March 24th 2012, held at the Vassall Centre, Bristol.
What is a Christian?
Mike Skev
The NT also gives us a number of pictures of what it means to be a Christian.
• A child of God which refers to our intimate relating with God
• A slave of God which refers to our total owning by God
• A servant of God which refers to our practical working for God
•A steward of God which refers to our responsible using of the provisions and gifts of God
Our four week small group study for November will look at these four pictures of what a Christian is from a NT perspective.
Small Group Leaders Meeting
12 November 2012
Becoming a mission shaped cell