Check here each week for information to prepare your heart for the upcoming sermon and follow-up questions you can use after the sermon to dig deeper and disciple your family!
Posts Tagged "Teachers"
Thinking Biblically about Pastors and Teachers
March 24, 2018
Sermon – 1 Corinthians 4:1-5 – Thinking Biblically about Pastors & Teachers
Preparing your heart for the sermon:
- What is servant-leadership? Give some biblical examples.
- What are some wrong views or expectations of pastors?
- How can we guard against being people-pleasers?
Other passages to consider – Ps 17:3; 26:2; 44:21; 139:23; Jn 5:44; 1 Cor 3:5-15; 2 Cor 1:14; 2:17-3:4; 5:1-10; Phil 2:16; 1 Th 2:19-20; James 3:1
Digging Deeper:
- How should we view pastors & teachers?
- How does this text help us define a “successful ministry”?
- Why should we fear God and not man?
- What does this passage teach about the Judgment Seat of Christ?
God's Church, God's Glory
March 09, 2018
Sermon – God’s Church, God’s Glory – 1 Corinthians 3:5-17
Preparing your heart for the sermon:
- What is the Church? What makes up the Church?
- What metaphors does Paul use in this text to describe the Church?
- Why does God point out that the Holy Spirit dwells in them corporately?
Other passages to consider – 1 Chron 29; Matt 16:13-20; 1 Cor 1:10-18; Eph 4:1-16; Col 3:5-17; 1 Tim 3:14-15; 1 Pet 2:4-12
Digging Deeper:
- Why should we not put Christian leaders on “a pedestal”?
- What standard will God use in judging how His Church was built?
- What does this passage have to do with divisions in the church?
- How does this text impact your view of Gospel ministry & the church?