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Culture - EARLY
James 2:14-17 NIV
PRAYER FOCUS:
MISSIONS: Pray for Travis, Kari, and kids. They are missionaries in the Middle East. They work with a team that plants churches.
COMMUNITY: Pray for people in your world that have been hurt or disillusioned by church. Pray for opportunity to be a part of their healing.
CHURCH: Pray for opportunity and provision for Corner Church to grow into new communities.
First Dialogue Question:
What is a relationship web? How does seeing your relationship web give you focus?
Second Dialogue Question:
What makes watching a hero’s rescue entertaining?
Third Dialogue Question:
What challenges are brought into real life when we idolize the hero’s rescue?
Fourth Dialogue Question:
Pick two or three of these crises and write down things that could have been done five to ten years earlier that might have helped this person in this crisis or miss this crisis.
Homelessness
Broken marriage
No meaningful relationships
Foreclosure / financial ruin
Suicidal
No purpose or direction
Addicted
Crippled by uncertainty
Can’t trust others
Flunking out of school
Reflect:
What would happen if no one took a risk and invested in people early?
Matthew 7:24-27 NIV
James 2:14-17 NIV
Proverbs 3:27-28 NIV
Luke 17:7-10 NIV
Matthew 6:10 NIV
Dialogue Question:
How do these things bring focus to “early”?
Do what Jesus says
When need appears, react
Fulfill our duty
Pray “Your will be done here on earth as it is in heaven.”
Final Dialogue Question:
As God answers this prayer for you, what happens?
God, in my local, focus and even change me so that I can meet needs early.
Take It Deeper Questions
Read James 2:14-26.
Are you more likely to act without thinking or think without acting?
What is the relationship between faith and deeds? What different ways can this relationship be healthy or unhealthy?
Why is Abraham a good example?
How does a person grow in being animated and motivated by his or her faith?
How can you grow in that?
Luke 17:7-10 NIV