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Isn’t CS Lewis Great!?

Keith Waters Christian Comment 5th February 2018#newconnexions, communication, cross, discipline, eschatology, faith, Holy Spirit, hope, humility, Jesus, new connexions, power, prayer, redemption, repentance, scripture, second chance, Trinity, truth 0 Comment

Every now and then, in this crazy society we live, I think we need reminding of this:

“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronising nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”

C.S. Lewis

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Bible Study – Mark 2:1-12

Keith Waters Bible Studies 28th January 201828th January 2018bible, communication, discipline, faith, faithfulness, Grace, healing, Jesus, mercy, new connexions, power, repentance 0 Comment

A study based on the sermon: Called to bring the roof down!

In verse 1 it says Jesus came home, but Jesus home was in Nazareth; why does Mark say this?
Verse 2: What was Jesus preaching to the people? What should we preach to people and what happens if we preach something different?
Verses 3&4: discuss the faith these men had and the effect their faith had on the different people around i.e. the paralysed man, Jesus, the four friends, the religious leaders, others in the house.
How should this impact our own faith and our own approach to bringing people to Jesus?
Verse 5: Jesus forgives the man’s sin – what does that mean?
Verses 6-12: Jesus proves His authority, what do His words and actions prove? How should that impact our lives?

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A Study on Mark 1:1-20

Keith Waters Bible Studies 14th January 201814th January 2018bible, discipline, faith, forgiveness, Grace, humility, Jesus, mercy, new connexions, power, repentance, Satan, sin, truth 0 Comment

If you missed the sermon, here’s the link: Don’t Mend Your Nets!

Reading Mark 1:1-20.

What do we know about Mark, who was he, why was he writing and who to, when was he writing?
What was John the Baptist doing and why? Discuss what it must have been like to have been around with him?
Why was Jesus baptised? Discussed what happened when He was.
Mark hardly mentions the temptations, but He mentions enough to tell us the important facts – what are they and what difference does it make to our understanding of Jesus?
What does it mean to follow Jesus, and what might be stopping us from following Him more obediently (what kind of nets might we be mending?)

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You were put in this Church for a purpose – are you fulfilling it?

Keith Waters Bible Studies 7th January 2018bible, communication, discipline, eschatology, faith, faithfulness, family, Grace, new connexions, prayer, repentance, scripture, second chance, truth, unfaithfulness 0 Comment

A Study based on our verses for the year (Hebrews 10:23-25) and this Sermon: Your Church Needs You!

Take the passage and use it as a ‘sounding board’ to answer the following:
1. What is Christian hope and how does it differ from the way hope is often used?
2. The passage doesn’t talk about us doing what we want or getting what we want but focuses on other brothers and sisters in our church, why is that and what difference should that make to the way we relate to each other as a church?
3. Sometimes we get restless as individuals and decide that we want something else, maybe a different style or more going on, a bigger church or a smaller church. Why is acting on what we want almost certainly the wrong thing? (if there are any brave characters in the group they might share about past occasions when they have left churches for personal preference rather than because they were called for a purpose);
4. How can we motivate, encourage, and provoke (in a positive way) one another? And how might we demotivate, discourage and provoke (in a negative way) one another?
5. Should we expect Christ’s return soon?

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