life can be different: From self to mission
Acts 16:1-15
For those who want to re-engage with this passage of scripture this week, I want to invite you to do it in a different way. Though primarily created for use in small groups, this style of investigating the scriptures can also be meaningful for individual study. Do not be either fooled or judgmental of the simplicity of this tool. The power of the tool is in its simplicity, and in that simplicity is also great reproducibility. Anyone can learn this, and anyone could lead it.
Read through the passage and ask these six questions of it:Replace this with Guide 1...
- What do you like best about this passage?
- What do you like least about this passage?
- What do you not understand about this passage?
- What do you learn about God from this passage?
- Based on what you read and learned from this passage, what do you personally need to do?
- Which phrase or verse from this passage do you want to take with you?
Take number 6 with you into your day, your week. Write it on a notecard and put it on your car visor, your work cubicle, your fridge door, or as a sticky note on your monitor. Ask God to show you how to most effectively engage with this phrase or verse throughout your week. Using this verse or phrase, make yourself available and see what God might do...
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