Roots, Foundations and Pillars

Our next theme for Sundays and beyond...

Where are our Roots?  What do we tap in to for daily life and when times are hard, personally and as Church?

What are our Foundations?  What is essential to the outworking of our faith, without which, we crumble? 

What are the Pillars of our faith – those things which we are building around as a community of believers?

The topics for this season are:

• Worship
• Prayer, fasting and intercession*
• Breaking bread
• Fellowship and community living
• Teaching
• Sharing the Good News, Making Disciples and Evangelism*
• Receiving and Living in the Holy Spirit (Including healing and miracles)*
• Baptism of New believers
• Social action, Justice and Giving*
• Leadership

This list is drawn from both the list we all contributed to when Kev spoke to us and a list compiled by Chris a while ago.  It’s not exhaustive and as we discovered when trying to divide the different topics, they all relate and overlap.  The aim is for us to look at some of the things which are most important to the life of the Church, or in Kev’s words, the things we give most “weight” to.

It would be especially helpful if speakers could refer to Kev’s teaching, Naomi’s discussion starter document and the questions it raises, and Chris’s thoughts, all of which are available on the blog.  We hope that through looking at these topics, we will begin to discuss together the questions raised and be changed by what we learn together, growing closer to God’s best.

It may happen that more than one person wants to take a particular topic, which would be great, because it will give us different perspectives!  Some of the topics, marked * cover large areas, especially “Sharing the Good News, Making Disciples and Evangelism” and may need to be looked at more than once form different angles.

Remember, “The Word” doesn’t have to be standing up in front of everyone and talking – you can bring the teaching in your own way and the role of the overseer is to help you make this happen.  It is a good idea to talk through your ideas with the overseer for your morning; he or she may also have ideas about how to deliver the Word, make it come alive to us and help us apply it to our lives.  It is also always good to think about how we can minister to one another in simple ways and help seal in what God has brought.  This may be praying for one another on the morning, but it could also be asking everyone to do something in the weeks between Sundays we meet.