The study questions for next week are on spiritual leadership and servanthood.
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Add Comment On Sunday, I preached from Colossians 3 on the theme of "How to Grow Spiritually." If you think of spiritual growth as a puzzle, these are the pieces of the puzzle that will enable you to grow spiritually. In my opinion, if you do these things, you will grow spiritually. Obviously, I am not taking away from the work of God. This is about creating space for God to work. We need to both cooperate with God and build basic foundations for God to work with. Look over this list. How many of them are you doing? Which are you not doing? How good or consistent are you with them? Is anything missing? What do you think? 1. Attend worship every Sunday. 2. Attend at least one class each week for teaching and fellowship and to model good behavior for others. 3. Read at least one chapter of the Bible each day, reading through books. 4. Record the main idea of each chapter in a notebook and compile, over time, a base of information you can use in your own teaching and understanding. 5. Look for ways to apply the main idea you took from your daily reading. 6. Pray every day over your main idea, for yourself and for others. 7. Always be working on training and teaching one other believer to do these same things. 8. Always be working on mentoring an unbeliever in faith, doing these same things, and teaching by example. I taught at a leadership camp for teenagers last month. Using the prophet Elisha as a model, I developed an outline of 10 leadership and character lessons. This file is my outline. I'm interested in any feedback you'd like to offer.
1. Be completely sold out for God (1 Kings 19:19-21).
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