This podcast was recorded September 27, 2009 and is the third part of a series taught by Pastor Aaron Dailey entitled, Open Heart Surgery. This sermon discusses how the words we speak and how the actions we take represent the motives of our heart.
This podcast was recorded September 27, 2009 and is the third part of a series taught by Pastor Aaron Dailey entitled, Open Heart Surgery. This sermon discusses how the words we speak and how the actions we take represent the motives of our heart.
Tonight (9/22/09) at 8:30pm PST we will be broadcasting our Gospel Community Training session on “Family and Missionaries” live on Ustream. You can either watch below or join us on our Ustream channel , this time chat is available on both locations. One of the great benefits the last time we did this was getting all the feedback from you guys throughout the training. So we’d love to have you join the chat. This training will be recorded for later viewing if you missed it live.
UPDATE: Live training session went great, you can watch the recorded training below.
This podcast was recorded September 20, 2009 and is the second part in a series taught by Pastor Aaron Dailey entitled, Open Heart surgery. This sermon discusses the heart issues of religion.
I hope you can see that we are trying to get you as much help as possible by providing some helpful resources to equip you in being a part of and serving your Gospel Community. I was able to have a great talk with my new friend.
Let me know if recording my conversations with other leaders is helpful and I will try and make it happen more often.
This podcast was recorded September 13, 2009 and is the first part of a sermon taught by Pastor Aaron Dailey entitled Open Heart Surgery. This sermon discusses the heart issues involved with giving.
An A29 church has created a free study guide to go along with the Re:Lit book Total Church, by Tim Chester and Steve Timmis. The well-designed 32-page study guide is available for free PDF download here.
The study guide was designed by Veritas Community Church in Columbus, Ohio.
Tim Chester and Steve Timmis, the authors of Total Church, foundedThe Crowded House church-planting initia
tive in the UK and direct the Porterbrook Network. Steve Timmis is also Director of Acts 29 for Western Europe.
I thought this would be a great resource for all who are wanting to learn more about what these Gospel Communities are and how they practically work. This would be a great resource for all of us to download and walk through the only thing you would have to change is the name of the church from Veritas to Life Connection.
I am currently reading a book called Tangible Kingdom. At times, as I read, I am feeling challenged and convicted; at other times I feel puzzled and confused. Although this book is so far, in so many ways, from my former ministry experience, I love the challenge and it is causing me to think and grow in many ways. I would love to read this book with some people and have a discussion about it because I have a lot of thoughts I’d like to filter through. I wanted to use some thoughts from this book as my first equipping for the Prophets and Teachers of our Gospel Communities. So, anyone can read this and comment, but I really would love to hear from specifically Prophets and Teachers. I will give you a few quotes from the book and then some of my thoughts:
“Posture represents attitude of the body: the nonverbal forms of communication that accompany what we say. As you may remember learning in your freshman interpersonal communication class, the nonverbals are more informative and honest than the verbal forms of communication.”
“Words communicate what we know; posture represents what we believe and feel.”
“Sometimes I wonder how we got to this point. Why did the pagan onlookers hold the early church in such high respect, but today’s non-Christians view the modern-day church with such disdain? I think one of the main culprits has to be our paradigm of evangelism. In the name of “getting someone saved,” we have primarily focused on communicating a message of truth to the world. There’s nothing wrong with that, except that we’ve prioritized the verbals over the nonverbals, the message over the method, that is to say, the proclamation over the posture. We assume that if we can just get the idea across, then it will be up to the person to respond, whether we do it correctly or not. Maybe we also think that in order to get God’s approving glance, it’s our duty to share “truth,” even if our modus operandi is “obnoxious for Jesus… and loving it.”
What he ends up addressing is a valid problem in the church. I was thinking how great this applies to our Gospel Communities – these are really a place where the teachers and prophets need to care about the non-verbals. We need to be willing to communicate the gospel but we need to be willing to posture ourselves so the people who are listening will receive what we are saying.
1 Peter 3:15 but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect,
This verse puts emphasis on the posture of honoring Christ. When you are honoring Christ people are going to have a question about the hope that is in you, and you need to always be ready to give an answer. These are the greatest teaching opportunities: the times that people are asking to learn, and you, because of your life and relationship, have shown that you know what you are talking about.
The authors of Tangible Kingdom, say to the people in their network, “We suggest to them that if people aren’t asking about their lives, then we haven’t postured our faith well enough or long enough”
So here is the point of all this for me and how I think this will help us in training as prophets/teachers in these Gospel Communities. We know that we need to be talking about Jesus a lot in these groups but I do not want us to miss the power of the non-verbals. I think what we can learn from 1 Peter 3:15, is that as a teacher in a Gospel community, we need to be prepared at all times to give an answer. We may not have had the time to prepare an outline or curriculum, but our best teaching times may be when someone sees our lives together as a community and wants to know about the hope that is in us. Then with gentleness and respect we need to be able to preach the gospel.
So the practical steps to this are, if we are teachers/prophets and want to use that gift in our Gospel Communities what must we do to be prepared in season and out?
1. Have a regular consistent time of reading/studying the Bible.
2. Be reading a book or training materiel to be sharpen your understanding
3. Be writing in a journal all your notes, revelations, and teaching ideas.
4. Be praying the Holy Spirit will give you opportunities to teach, that you would be bold enough to present it, and humble enough to have the right posture.
Ok guys lets all meditate on 1 Peter 3:15 and I would like all of you to send me a comment back on what God taught you out of this text and how it can make you a better teacher/prophet in your Gospel Community
This podcast was recorded August 30, 2009 and is the fifth part in a series taught by pastor Aaron Dailey entitled Gospel Community. This sermon discusses a biblical love for one another.
This podcast was recorded August 23, 2009 and is the fourth part in a series taught by Pastor Aaron Dailey entitled Gospel Community. This sermon discusses gospel community in our city.
This podcast was recorded September 6, 2009 and is the sixth and final part of a series taught by pastor Aaron Dailey entitled Gospel Community. This sermon discusses the lie of “beliefism” and the need for our faith to be transformational.
This podcast was recorded August 30, 2009 and is the fifth part in a series taught by pastor Aaron Dailey entitled Gospel Community. This sermon discusses a biblical love for one another.
This podcast was recorded August 23, 2009 and is the fourth part in a series taught by Pastor Aaron Dailey entitled Gospel Community. This sermon discusses gospel community in our city.
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