Week Six: Blessing and Cursing
Topic of Sunday’s talk: Blessing others and not cursing them. We receive blessing from God and, like a mirror, we reflect it back to him and out to others. Our words can bless others and our lives can bless others.
Connect: 7:00-7:20
Tell about a time when someone blessed you (ascribed to you good things to you)? What impact did it make?
Surrender: 7:20-7:30
Take a moment to pray/praise God for those just mentioned who have blessed you in various ways.
Read this old Hymn as a prayer (you could pass out a verse to each person).
How I praise Thee, precious Saviour
That Thy love laid hold of me!
Thou hast saved and cleansed and filled me
That I might Thy channel be.
Chorus:
Channels only blessed Master,
But with all Thy wondrous power
Flowing through us. Thou canst use us
Every day and every hour.
Emptied that Thou shouldest fill us,
As clean vessels in Thy hand;
With no power but as Thou givest
Graciously with each command.
Chorus
Witnessing Thy power to save us,
Setting free from self and sin;
Thou who boughtest to possess us,
In Thy fullness, Lord, come in!
Chorus
Jesus, fill now with Thy Spirit
Hearts that full surrender know
That the streams of living water:
From our inner selves may flow!
Chorus
Amen
Grow: 7:30-8:00
Here are a bunch of ideas I have for questions that could be asked this week. Choose the ones that will work best for your group.
The most important question is, “How can I be a blessing (channel, conduit) to others?”
How does your spiritual giftedness impact the way that you live out being a blessing to others?
Have you found ways to bless others at…
Work? Home?, somewhere else?
Does a mirror accurately depict the way that we receive blessing from God and then reflect back onto Him? Prove this with scripture.
Is it true that you can’t give blessings from God to others if you are not regularly receiving blessings from God?
What would help you recognize and receive God’s blessing more regularly?
What does the imagery of a channel of blessing bring to your mind?
To “channel” God’s blessings, we must be in tune with others and the Holy Spirit. Which one is easier/harder for you?
Blessed are those who are persecuted. If some one is persecuting you, you should bless them b/c by their persecution they have helped to elevate you to a blessed status. What do you think of that?
What could our group do to be a blessing to each other and a blessing to others this week?
Develop: 8:00-8:15
Does the group want to adopt a church missionary (Forsens, Muttis, other)?
Does the group want to continue focusing on the sermon scriptures each week or branch out into something different?
Blessing Chair: place someone/some ones in a chair in the middle of the room. Ask them how you could bless them through prayer. Pray for God’s blessing on their life. This is one way to have the group exercise blessing others.
Share: 8:15-8:30
Group Outreach Project
Last week I offered instructions for a brainstorming session on outreach. If you haven’t done that yet, go back and look it over
http://ccclifegroups.blogspot.com/2007/10/quitting-is-not-option.html
If you did the brainstorming session, it might be time to evaluate your ideas. Have the group narrow it down to the top couple ideas and then start doing pros and cons for each. Ask who is wiling to help with the various aspects of the outreach. If no one is willing to take on parts of it, scratch that idea and move to the next one.
Let me know what you come up with. If your idea requires money, let me know.
Reminder: Sunday, December 2nd is a small group leader get-to-gether from 1:30-3:00 at the church.
Thanks for your labor of love,
Vinnie C.
Topic of Sunday’s talk: Blessing others and not cursing them. We receive blessing from God and, like a mirror, we reflect it back to him and out to others. Our words can bless others and our lives can bless others.
Connect: 7:00-7:20
Tell about a time when someone blessed you (ascribed to you good things to you)? What impact did it make?
Surrender: 7:20-7:30
Take a moment to pray/praise God for those just mentioned who have blessed you in various ways.
Read this old Hymn as a prayer (you could pass out a verse to each person).
How I praise Thee, precious Saviour
That Thy love laid hold of me!
Thou hast saved and cleansed and filled me
That I might Thy channel be.
Chorus:
Channels only blessed Master,
But with all Thy wondrous power
Flowing through us. Thou canst use us
Every day and every hour.
Emptied that Thou shouldest fill us,
As clean vessels in Thy hand;
With no power but as Thou givest
Graciously with each command.
Chorus
Witnessing Thy power to save us,
Setting free from self and sin;
Thou who boughtest to possess us,
In Thy fullness, Lord, come in!
Chorus
Jesus, fill now with Thy Spirit
Hearts that full surrender know
That the streams of living water:
From our inner selves may flow!
Chorus
Amen
Grow: 7:30-8:00
Here are a bunch of ideas I have for questions that could be asked this week. Choose the ones that will work best for your group.
The most important question is, “How can I be a blessing (channel, conduit) to others?”
How does your spiritual giftedness impact the way that you live out being a blessing to others?
Have you found ways to bless others at…
Work? Home?, somewhere else?
Does a mirror accurately depict the way that we receive blessing from God and then reflect back onto Him? Prove this with scripture.
Is it true that you can’t give blessings from God to others if you are not regularly receiving blessings from God?
What would help you recognize and receive God’s blessing more regularly?
What does the imagery of a channel of blessing bring to your mind?
To “channel” God’s blessings, we must be in tune with others and the Holy Spirit. Which one is easier/harder for you?
Blessed are those who are persecuted. If some one is persecuting you, you should bless them b/c by their persecution they have helped to elevate you to a blessed status. What do you think of that?
What could our group do to be a blessing to each other and a blessing to others this week?
Develop: 8:00-8:15
Does the group want to adopt a church missionary (Forsens, Muttis, other)?
Does the group want to continue focusing on the sermon scriptures each week or branch out into something different?
Blessing Chair: place someone/some ones in a chair in the middle of the room. Ask them how you could bless them through prayer. Pray for God’s blessing on their life. This is one way to have the group exercise blessing others.
Share: 8:15-8:30
Group Outreach Project
Last week I offered instructions for a brainstorming session on outreach. If you haven’t done that yet, go back and look it over
http://ccclifegroups.blogspot.com/2007/10/quitting-is-not-option.html
If you did the brainstorming session, it might be time to evaluate your ideas. Have the group narrow it down to the top couple ideas and then start doing pros and cons for each. Ask who is wiling to help with the various aspects of the outreach. If no one is willing to take on parts of it, scratch that idea and move to the next one.
Let me know what you come up with. If your idea requires money, let me know.
Reminder: Sunday, December 2nd is a small group leader get-to-gether from 1:30-3:00 at the church.
Thanks for your labor of love,
Vinnie C.
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