10 Ways to Be Strategic with Your Easter Invite Cards
1. PRAY - Pray and ask God about who to invite and for opportunities and courage to invite them. Pray together with your BFG and with your family. Pray for those you invite to come and hear the gospel and be saved! 2. START WITH YOUR CLOSEST RELATIONSHIPS - Start by inviting the lost people you have the strongest relationships with. Invite your lost family and friends. 3. EXPAND TO THOSE CLOSEST TO YOU IN PROXIMITY - Invite those who you live near you or those you work with. Invite your neighbors and coworkers. 4. INVITE SOMEONE YOU’VE [...]
Sermon Discussion Questions – 1 Timothy 4:6-10
Were you taught to engage in spiritual disciplines when you became a Christian? What were they? How were you taught to engage in the disciplines? What is the problem with equating spiritual disciplines with godliness? Why is it important to see godliness as the goal of spiritual disciplines? Why do you think Christians are weak in the Spiritual Disciplines? What do you think is the solution to laziness in spiritual disciplines? What happens when we don’t engage in spiritual disciplines? What are the dangers to neglecting the disciplines? How is the gospel the power of the disciplines? What [...]
Mark 8:34 Sermon Discussion Questions
Jesus invites anyone and everyone to follow him. By not sharing the gospel we are withholding the invitation to follow Jesus. Who are you withholding the invitation from that you need to invite to follow Jesus? Spend some time as a BFG praying for these people. What are some ways that you are tempted to passively follow Jesus and just go through the motions? How can you actively grow in knowing Jesus and obeying him more? How are you seeing your life change or the lives of others in your BFG change because they are actively following Jesus? [...]
Mark 4:35-41 Sermon Discussion Questions
Jesus' sleep is compared with this disciples' panic. Jesus sleeps because He is sovereign. The disciples panic because they are not Jesus. How should the reality that Jesus is not panicked temper your anxieties? Are there things in your life that you feel as if Jesus is sleeping on? Do you struggle to believe God cares about your needs? How has the cross addressed God’s care for you? Holy fear is meant to lead us to genuine faith. How have you distorted fear of God in your life? Have you been scared of him? Why is this kind of [...]
Why My Sons Wear #44: Baseball, Racism, and My Last Name
Stranger: Which one is yours?Me: The one right there. Haskins #44.Stranger (looking at me to make sure I am white): Which one?Me: The black kid right there.Stranger: Oh really? Awkward silence ensues Ever since we brought Isaac and Jonah home from Ethiopia, this sort of interaction has been common for my wife around their sporting events. Parents trying to match each player up with their appropriate family, begin to realize the colors don’t exactly coordinate with all the kids on the team. To break the silence we usually say something like, “I can’t believe you didn’t notice the [...]
Mark 3:20-35 Sermon Discussion Questions
“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 [...]