THE VISION: SCRIPTURE-FOCUSED SMALL GROUP MEETINGS
If you are a servant leader of a small prayer group, imagine the following scenario where your meetings with your small group are intentionally scripture-focused. You actually begin to call your meetings “bible study” meetings. It’s not you acting as preacher to them. Rather, you facilitate the discussion and meeting activity around scripture-based topics.
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Birthday anniversaries are a good time as any to look back at the last twelve months and count your blessings, and reflect on the road ahead. Tonight, I have dug up my old writings, and would like to share this timeless piece which I wrote 21 years ago. I thank God for the journey I have taken with these men.
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The call of Moses is an all too familiar story to most Christians. Moses intervenes in a dispute between an Egyptian and a Hebrew slave, and he kills the Egyptian. Fearing the Pharoah’s wrath, Moses escapes to the land of Midian, and settles there as a shepherd. It is here in the wilderness at Horeb while tending his flock when Moses’s attention is called by a voice coming from within a burning bush. I want to reflect on how Moses’s attention turned to the burning bush.
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“Lord, bigyan mo kami ng problema.” The first time I said that prayer was in 2009 during a prayer for empowerment for the team that was assigned to handle the Holy Triduum preparations of our prayer community. Naturally, my team was surprised about that prayer because they expected me, as the team leader of the service team, to ask the Lord to bless us so that everything would fall into place, that the event would go smoothly, and so on. After all this was not an easy service, and it involved tremendous amount of preparation and coordination, with many moving parts. The odds of a foul up were stacked against us. And then this was my prayer: “Give us problems, Lord.”
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