Crossroads Cadiz Podcast

Disciples grow in community marked by 

 

_____________________ & ______________________

Two Pillars of a Growing Christian Community...

____________________: Life With God as Followers of Jesus

 

Followship Means  ____________ God’s Word Together

____________________: Life With One Another as Followers of Jesus

 

Fellowship Means _______________ Together Through Hospitality 

 

Fellowship Means _______________ One Another Through Prayer

Life Groups exist because disciples grow best in groups marked by Fellowship and Followship.

 

Sign Up For a Life Group on the Bulletin Board in the Lobby!

Memory Verse: And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers. - Acts 2:42 ESV

Two Senses of The Church…

 

The Church is _______________ (Ephesians 5:25, Hebrews 12:22-23, Matthew 16:18)

 

The Church is _______________ (1 Corinthians 1:1-2, 16:1)

 

The Definition of the Church...

 

A Local Church is a group of Christians who regularly gather together with a Common ___________  in Christ, a Common _______________ to one another, and a Common ______________ to extend the gospel to the world.

 

A Local Church is a Group of Christians who regularly gather together… (Matthew 16:18, Acts 1:13-15, 1 Corinthians 11:18)

 

...with a Common Faith (Matthew 7:24-25, Ephesians 2:19-20, 4:4-6)

 

...with a Common Commitment to One Another (Matthew 16:19, 18:15-20, 1 Corinthians 12:14-20)

 

...with a Common Mission to extend the gospel to the world.

 

Applications:

 

To the Church: Your Investment in the Local Church is _______________

 

To the Church-Less: Stop claiming to love Jesus while rejecting His ____________

 

To the Church-Hurt: No one has experienced more church hurt than ______________ and He ain't given up on her yet! (Ephesians 5:25-27, Revelation 19:6-9)

 

Memory Verse: And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

Matthew 16:18 ESV

Esau's ______________ (36:1-8)

 

His Babel-Like ___________ (Genesis 10, 36:1, 37:1)

 

His Ishmael-Like _______________ (Genesis 36:2-5)

 

His Lot-Like ______________ (Genesis 36:6-8)

 

Esau's ______________ (36:9-43)

 

You Can Have Worldly Success Yet Not Be ______________ By God (Romans 2:4-5)

 

You Can Have Worldly Success Yet Not Be _________________ By History (Ecclesiastes 2:18-23)

 

You Can Have Worldly Success Yet Not ______________ Death (Matthew 13:44, Psalm 16:11, 84:10)

 

Memory Verse: For a day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness.  Psalm 84:10 ESV

Central Point: You Become Like Where You _________ 

 

The ______________ of Dinah (1-12) 

 

The ______________ of the Family (13-31)

 

What Do We Do With a Passage Like This?

 

Our Biggest Problem is Sin ___________ Us

 

The Ultimate Solution is God's Word  ___________  of Us (2 Corinthians 5:17, Romans 12:1-2) 

 

Memory Verse: Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. - Romans 12:2 ESV

"Forgiveness"

(Genesis 33)

 

The Foundation of Forgiveness: ________________ (Genesis 33:1-3, 27:29)

 

The Goal of Forgiveness: ________________ (Genesis 33:4-9, Romans 12:16-21)

 

The Means of Forgiveness: ________________ (Genesis 33:10-11, Ephesians 4:28)

 

The Reality of Forgiveness: ________________ (Genesis 33:12-16)

 

The Truest Forgiveness: ________________ (Genesis 33:17-20, Matthew 18:21-35, Colossians 3:12-13, 1 Timothy 1:15-16)

 

I Need To Reconcile With: __________________________________

 

Memory Verse: Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. - Colossians 3:12-13 ESV

Jacob's Striving with _________ (32:1-21)

 

Jacob Makes a ___________ to Meet Esau (32:1-8)

 

Jacob ____________ To God For Help (32:9-12)

 

Empowered by God's ___________ Faithfulness (32:9)

 

Empowered by God's ____________  Promise (32:9-10)

 

Empowered by God's ____________ Deliverance (32:11-12)

 

Jacob Sends ________________ To Esau (32:13-21)

 

Jacob's Striving with __________ (32:22-32)

 

The Fight He Tried to Avoid From Esau, He Got from ____________ (Hosea 12:3-6)

 

Through the Wrestling, God was _____________ Jacob. 

 

God's ____________ For Your Life Will Never Come Apart From __________ 

 

Memory Verse: Then he said, “Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with men, and have prevailed.” - Genesis 32:28 ESV

The ______________ is a paradigm for Jacob’s Story, the Nation's Story, and Your Story.

 

An Exodus is God's ________________ of His people from slavery to a wicked master by His power for His glory.

 

What Does Jacob Have to Do With Israel?

1. Genesis was written by __________________ to the nation of Israel around 1440 BC
2. Jacob is the _____________ of the nation.
3. There are a number of ________________ between Jacob and the nation. (Genesis 30:30, 31:6-7, 16, Exodus 3:7-8, 9:16)

 

In the Life of Jacob…

 

God's _________________ of Jacob 

 

God was at work in the sufferings of Jacob, in the sufferings of Israel, and  in __________ sufferings.

 

God's _________________ with Jacob (Genesis 31:3, 5, 11-13, Exodus 3:12)

 

God Promises to Be With _______! (Matthew 28:20)

 

God's _________________ of Jacob (Genesis 31:22-29, 42-55)

 

God's _________________ Over Laban's gods (Genesis 31:19, 30, 33-35)

 

What Does It Mean to Glorify God? (1 Corinthians 10:31)

 

To say to the world, "God is ___________!"

 

Jesus Redeemed Us Through an _________ (Luke 9:30-31)

 

Memory Verse: If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been on my side, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. God saw my affliction and the labor of my hands and rebuked you last night. - Genesis 31:42 ESV