The answers provided below in the Message Based Discussion Questions are for the Message presented on April 27, 2014. They are designed to stimulate thinking and not prevent it. Please consider how you would answer the questions.
How do you prepare leadership in Jesus?
This message was presented on April 27, 2014 as part of the 1 Timothy series.
When Andrew Carnegie was a small boy, he came to America from his native Scotland. He did a variety of odd jobs, and eventually became the largest steel manufacturer in the United States. At one time he had forty-three millionaires working for him (in todays’ money it would be equivalent to at least twenty million dollars).
The following are suggested answers to the Message Based Discussion Questions for the message presented on April 20, 2014. They are designed to stimulate thinking, not prevent it.
After the cross, how did the disciples know what to do?
This is a special message presented on Resurrection Sunday, April 20, 2014
Many of you have heard of Adam and Eve. God created them in the Garden of Eden and gave them perfect everything! They both had perfect air, food, water and perfect companions. However, the one thing God asked them not to do, they did. That produced a problem. God had said that if they ate of the fruit that was forbidden to them, they would die (They did die physically, hundreds of years, but this death was spiritual, a separation). It was a spiritual death (a separation), because God is holy and His holiness cannot tolerate anything that is contrary to His character and will. They could no longer enjoy intimacy in relationship with God. So God banished them from the Garden! That was a problem.
These are suggested answers to the Message Based Discussion Questions from the message presented on Palm Sunday on April 13, 2014. These are designed to stimulate thinking, not prevent it. Please dig and develop additional responses for discussion!
What success was Jesus expecting from life?
1) Jesus taught and healed all the way to the cross Luke 18-19
This is a special message presented on Palm Sunday, April 13, 2014.
John Wooden, the great basketball coach said, “You can’t let praise or criticism get to you. It’s a weakness to get caught up in either one.” Another person made the statement, “The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.” (made by Norman Vincent Peale). Great comment!
These are suggested answers to the Message Based Discussion Questions for the message presented on April 6, 2014. The answers are meant to stimulate more thinking, not hinder thinking.
How do you disciple others in and to godliness?
This message was presented on April 6, 2014 as part of the series on 1 Timothy.
How many of you have seen the movie “Supersize Me!” At his own risk, Morgan Spurlock wrote the script and underwent an experiment to eat three meals a day at McDonalds for 30 days, without eating their salads. After a doctor’s checkup and approval, he began his journey. If the McDonald’s employee asked if he wanted his order supersized, he had to take it. The results were disastrous to his health!
These are suggested answers to the Message Based Discussion Questions from the message presented on March 30, 2014 as part of the series on 1 Timothy. These are provided to stimulate thinking, but not prohibit from additional thinking.
Why disciple others to follow Jesus, instead of Truth principles?
This message was presented on March 30, 2014 as part of the series on 1 Timothy.
Alertness. We looked at alertness to Truth last Sunday, because mainline Christianity is falling away from it! I am concerned about Christians being pulled into the Christian Science, Mormon, and Jehovah Witness cults (among others), because those are obviously false doctrines. But for those in Protestantism who are compromising Truth, the drift is often more subtle. Do you know of churches that have moved away from Truth? How about denominations? What about Christians who professed Jesus and pursued following His Lordship, but allowed some intense suffering, mistreatment from leadership at church, or an unfair situation to cause them to depart from Jesus? Why did it happen? Because our minds and flesh like to explore new things and deceiving spirits like to fill up that desire. My friends, purity of Truth is essential, because what percentage of poison is in d-CON? Only 2 %. But unless we love each other, we’ll never be able to lead each other to the Truth.
Shepherding Truth 