Foundations: The Church -Workshop

Workshop this week , no video available :

• Assignment today: (to include assigned verses)
• Which side of this do you have a greater propensity to lean towards?

1. I lean towards getting all of my “church” there on site or on campus of my local church and I have a hard time “being” the church out there in the world when I drive off on Sunday/Wednesday, ect….

• and what does that look like in your life. What does it look like in your thinking and attitudes.

2. I lean towards getting all of my church stuff outside of or away from the local/home church. I lean towards just “going to church” to check it off and because I feel a responsibility to “attend.”

• I lean more towards being a “free agent” Christian.
• Attitudes behind that?

 

• This is not about criticism or condemnation:
• Its not so much about “stop that” whichever side you lean towards…
• This new world of opportunity

– and exposure to the church at large is wonderful

• This new connectedness with the larger body is GOOD
• This is about us learning how to balance both sides of this without leaving the other behind
• As Dr. Bennett would say:
• Its not either, or…Its BOTH, AND. Amen?

 

• Assignment for next week: (3/22-23)
• Same memory/meditation verses. Choose 2-3 more to internalize.
• Life application assignment:
• What are you currently doing in the local church?
• What type of “Body of Christ” stuff are you doing outside of the local church? (M3 for example)
• How can you maximize each of these areas? Be specific!!

 

MEMORY WORKSelect two or three of the following verses that you haven’t internalized in the past and do so this week.

– 1 Timothy 3:15
– Ephesians 2:19-22
– Romans 12:4-5
– 1 Corinthians 12:27
– Ephesians 4:11-16
– Acts 20:28
– John 14:19-20
– John 17:20-21

ADDITIONAL ASSIGNMENT

Come ready to discuss the following during table time next  week: