Going For One
Sermon Notes
4 Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.
5 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
- Deuteronomy 6:4-5
1 As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received.
2 Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.
3 Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.
4 There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called;
5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism;
6 one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.
- Ephesians 4:1-6
20 “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message,
21 that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.
22 I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one—
23 I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity.
- John 17:20-23
“You aren’t one of this man’s disciples too, are you?” she asked Peter.He replied, “I am not.”
- John 18:17
8 Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me.
9 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”
- 2 Corinthians 12:8-9
Table Group Resources
Mixer
On your favorites playlist, what is one group that you never press “skip”?
‘Neighborly’ - Daily Devotional
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In Pastor Ken’s 8/23 entry, Today Is A Gift, he reminds us that we have a choice on Monday mornings - or any morning - to put on a new attitude. If you could write a response to those “Ugh! Monday Mornings!” memes on social media, which of the Bible verses in Ken’s devo would inspire your comment? Or a new meme?
In Pastor Harry’s 8/27 entry, The Last Straw, what let-downs in your life came to your mind? How do those circumstances shape you today, and are you happy with the results? Have you ever felt God has let you down? How does laying your disappointments and hurt at the foot of the cross show you the truth about the path to healing your relationships?
Sermon Questions
On break for July & August! If your group still plans to meet, we still have church on Sundays to uncover the work God wants to do in us and through us! Here are some Inductive Bible Study tools from LOGOS.com to help you unpack Sunday’s message:
What impacted you most about Sunday’s message? Read the Scripture(s) used in the message.
Observation: What does the text say (who, what, when, where, how, why)? Also note uses of words like: therefore, after, now, but, if/then, etc. Notice repeating words or themes, lists of words and their order and definitions, etc. Use multiple Bible versions and compare.
Interpretation: What does the text mean? Look for what the writer is trying to communicate: cultural/historical context; about the author, about the person/people, about God/Jesus/Holy Spirit; what other Scripture that can interpret this text; what is the clearest meaning (being careful to not read into it what it doesn’t say, or what you want it to say)?
Application: What does the text mean to me? “We don’t study the Bible just to gain knowledge. We study to gain knowledge so we know how to live our lives in light of what we’ve learned.” (LOGOS.com) Together with your answer to Question #1, what do you hear God saying to you about you, Him, priorities and decisions, relationships, faith, conflict, spiritual warfare, difficulties, setbacks, and hope? What one action step will you take with this new knowledge?
Go Deeper - with Goodbook
Dr. Mark Strauss and Pastor Ken Ingold
REMINDER: Goodbook is now on summer break and will relaunch in September.
Serve
There is always more room for smiling faces on Sunday mornings! Ushers/Greeters, Coffee Team, Communion Team - contact sal@thechurchrb.org
You could become a memorable blessing in a child’s or student’s experience with Jesus!
Was there someone in your life who poured into you in your formative years? What did that mean to you, and to your faith journey? Our NextGen ministries invite you and what you uniquely bring to lead our students! Come chat with us!
CRB Kidz - contact Pastor Heidi, heidi@thechurchrb.org
Student Ministries - contact Director Cristina, cristina@thechurchrb.org
Pray
Pray for our world this week from Psalm 107:1-9.
From Timothy Keller’s The Songs of Jesus: A Year of Daily Devotionals (pg 279), he says “They had no city.... At one level this shows that cities can be good places for human thriving. At the deepest level it means we need Jesus - to heal our spiritual hunger, give rest for our spiritual exhaustion, and through his Body end our loneliness. So believers work to make our cities good places for everyone to live (Jeremiah 29:7) and also call all to become citizens of the heavenly city (Rev 21-22; Hebrews 12:22-24) through faith in God.”
