Missions Focus: Please be praying for Randy & Linda Lindsey, missionaries we support as a church who have been serving deaf communities in Mexico. Please pray for the local ministry leaders they support.
Local: Pray for people and situations in your world that you are not sure anyone else is praying for.
Church: Pray for Corner Church Downtown and for launching healthy weekly services this fall!

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Tuesday Morning Communal Prayer is at 9am in the basement at Corner Coffee North Loop.
Cairo Missions Trip Meeting is September 18 at 7pm at the Woller home.
Come volunteer with Rachel and Every Meal at Loring School on a Friday to fill kids’ backpacks with lunches! You could help once a month or when available. Email rachel@cornerchurch.tv for more info or to volunteer
Get connected! Fall Connection Groups are coming soon! A connection group is a recurring time of encouragement that centers around a theme or idea, and now is the time to be thinking about a group you may want to lead. Go to corner.church/groups to learn more and to send in your group idea!
Our annual Corner Church Fall Retreat will be October 25-27. Be sure to grab a brochure and get registered!
Back in May, Scott Woller went to Lithuania to teach a church planting class. The host church, Journey Vilnius, was facing an imminent move as the building they were renting in was slated for demolition. The day has come and there is opportunity for us to go help with salvaging all the church building resources. The preliminary dates are October 7-14 or October 14-21, and the cost would be roughly $1200. If you have interest, please connect with Scott Woller this week: scott@cornerchurch.tv.
Halloween at Camden Is coming. There will be lots of fun at our community event. Email rachel@cornerchurch.tv to get involved.

Dialogue Question:

Beyond the actual words and phrases, what makes what someone says to you meaningful and/or impactful?

John 16:33 • Jesus said
33 “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”

Matthew 6:31-33 • Jesus said
31 “So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.”

Matthew 11:28-30 • Jesus said
28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”

John 15:15-17 • Jesus said
15 “I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you. 17 This is my command: Love each other.”

Google search

“Jesus said He loved us more than birds, Bible”

Matthew 6:26
26 “Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?”


Dialogue Question:

From your memory or from your phone search, what is an encouraging, meaningful, and/or powerful verse to you?

**Google search - encouraging words in the Bible


Share your encouraging, meaningful, and/or powerful verse and why it is important to you.

**It is more than okay to not have one right now.

John 13:34-35 • Jesus talks about discipleship
34 “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. 35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”

Matthew 16:24-25 • Jesus talks about discipleship
24 Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. 25 For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it.”

Hebrews 3:12-14 • Discipling others
12 See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. 13 But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness. 14 We have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original conviction firmly to the very end.

1 Thessalonians 2:7b-8 • Discipling others
Just as a nursing mother cares for her children, 8 so we cared for you. Because we loved you so much, we were delighted to share with you not only the gospel of God but our lives as well.

Romans 10:14-17 • Discipling others
14 How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? 15 And how can anyone preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!” 16 But not all the Israelites accepted the good news. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our message?” 17 Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word about Christ.

Dialogue Questions:

What are some important ingredients to making a relationship a disciplining relationship? How does a person know that it is happening?

1 Peter 5:1-4 • Everyone discipling
1 To the elders among you, I appeal as a fellow elder and a witness of Christ’s sufferings who also will share in the glory to be revealed: 2 Be shepherds of God’s flock that is under your care, watching over them—not because you must, but because you are willing, as God wants you to be; not pursuing dishonest gain, but eager to serve; 3 not lording it over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock. 4 And when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the crown of glory that will never fade away.

Be discipling
Because you want to
Eager to serve
Not with a big ego
As a good example


Dialogue Question:

How are Peter’s words good advice for being a person that disciples others?

1 Peter 5:5-7
5 In the same way, you who are younger, submit yourselves to your elders. All of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, “God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble.” 6 Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. 7 Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.

Submit to those ahead of you
Put on repeatedly humility
Submit yourself to God
Cast your anxiety on Him because He cares for you


Dialogue Question:

How are Peter’s words good advice for being a person that is being discipled?

Dialogue moment:

Encourage each other at your table to put hope in Jesus.

Take It Deeper Questions
Read 1 Peter 5:1-11.
Do you think of yourself as the tortoise or the hare? Why?
What motivates persistence in you?
How are you helping others persist in their relationship with Jesus?
Who is helping you be persistent in your relationship with Jesus?
What is the cost of not taking personal responsibility in discipling others and being discipled?
How can you ensure that you are consistently discipling others and being discipled by others?

Bible Reading Plan
1 Peter 1
1 Peter 2
1 Peter 3
1 Peter 4
1 Peter 5
2 Peter 1