Micro-Church: Week 25
Flashback to Sunday morning:
Habits of Kingdom Builders
1-Kingdom Builders study
2-Kingdom Builders share vision
3-Kingdom Builders strengthen people
and ultimately: Kingdom builders succeed!
This week in MC, we want to drill down into the life application of what it means to "Study". Specifically, let's talk about developing our devotional time. When we talk about devotional time, we are talking about the daily discipline of scripture reading and prayer. These are the primary ways that we interact with God and it would stand to reason, that if we are neglecting these fundamental disciplines, we are living far below the abundance that God has for us.
Today's MC will look a little different in that we will spend a little less time deep-diving a particular passage of scripture and a little more time in discussion about how we currently spend our devotional time, some ideas on ways to up the quality of that time, and how we can improve the overall consistency.
We referenced this passage Sunday morning - it provides a good foundation for our discussion this week:
2 Timothy 2:15 (ESV) 15 Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.
2 Timothy 2:15 (KJV) 15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
This week, we have a short survey to walk through as a group. Each person should submit their own answers. These answers are anonymous when submitted, but take time to discuss each one of these questions with your micro-church. I think you will find that hearing about the devotional time of the people around us will challenge us, as well as encourage us to dig deeper into our prayer and study time.
A note:
Bible translations - if you aren't sure about the difference of certain translations, here is a good resource that explains where various popular translations fall in regards to translation style and the manuscripts that they were taken from.
https://evangelicalbible.com/translations/bible-translation-guide/
To sum it all up:
What is a SMART step that you can take to improve your devotional time?
SMART:
Specific
Measurable
Achievable
Relavent
Time-bound
