Discussion Questions for 5/30/2010

Download the discussion questions for 5/30/2010 (Luke 12:22-32).

Discussion Questions for 5/23/2010

Download discussion questions for Luke 12:13-21.

Teaching Discussion Questions from 5/16/2010

Download the discussion questions from the teaching for 5/16/2010 on Luke 11:37-12:3.

Have a great week thinking about God's truth!

Happy Mother's Day

Thanks moms for all that you do. Have a great day!

Think It Through: The God Who Accepts Us

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Outreach Diagram Final Template

Here is what you need for the final this week. Attached are the instructions for graders, the outreach final template for the test, and the homework assignment for week 12.
See you all Sunday!

Instructions for Graders

Outreach Final

Homework for week12

Reading Review for week 12

Think It Through: Go and Make Disciples of All Nations

This past Sunday morning, Craig shared a big chunk of his heart and vision for his family’s plan to follow Jesus. As we reflect on God working with ordinary people to accomplish extraordinary things, it is both scary and encouraging to examine our own life and responsiveness to our King.

It is also very good to remember that Hong Kong is a Summitview thing, and not just a Swing thing. In light of those ideas, please consider chewing on some of the following questions.

1) What do you think will be the immediate effect of Summitview’s efforts in Hong Kong on:

a. You personally?

b. Your family?

c. Your community group?

2) If you were to ask God what part he would have you play, what could you dream he may have you do?

3) Craig shared many of the significant moments of decision and direction change in his life. What are 3 or 4 of the most significant moments in your life where God led you clearly?

4) What were the life circumstances that God used to bring you to the point of realizing your need for a savior?

5) What would be something God might ask you to do that would really make you uncomfortable?

6) Is there anything big you are asking God for? Do you have a specific desire to be used you in a gospel or Kingdom initiative?

Which God?

Reading in Joshua this morning and was encouraged to read about Joshua challenging the Israelites to choose their god. We must challenge ourselves with the same question daily. Which god will I serve today? Will it be the god of power or the god of money or some other worldly god or will it be the one true God of the Bible?

Joshua 24:15 And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

Think It Through: The God Worthy of My Worship

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Latest Outreach Diagram Assignments

Home Work Assignment #9

Reading Review #9

Check back later this week for some help with the quiz for this coming week.

Fun Way to Interact with Passion Week

Click this link for a Google map that highlights the travels and events of Jesus during his last few days on this earth.

Think It Through: The God of Second Chances

Check out the Think It Through for Sunday, 3/28/2010 and learn and think about the God of Second Chances.

The God Who Gives

The Think It Through for today's teaching con be downloaded from HERE.

Diagram Midterm Info

Following are the midterm specific grading documents that were handed out during class today.  If you missed the class take a look at these to get a better feel for the midterm which will be next Sunday.

Midterm Grading Outline
Grading Guidelines

If there are any questions, let us know.

Diagram Study Aides

Here are some study aides to help you study for the midterm:

Audio MP3 of the video (http://www.summitviewcc.com/Diagram/DiagramPresentation.mp3)

Video from Greeley (http://web.me.com/bryankoch/Faith/Diagram_Study_Movie.html)

Powerpoint Presentation (http://www.summitviewcc.com/Diagram/Outreach_Diagram_Presentation.pps)

To download these aides, right-click the link and select the "Save target as..." or "Save link as..." option.

Which God? The God of Mind-Boggling Grace

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Outreach Quiz Hints

Be able to write out Matthew 7:23 and 1 Corinthians 1:20.

Be able to give the verse references given the verse text for all other verses (you won't be asked for all of them - just some of them).

Write out the transition between Jesus Christ being the solution for our sins and the section
Who was He.

Remember that this week we will be talking about how the mid-term will work on the following week, so please try to be there if at all possible. Thanks.

Outreach Presentation Audio

The audio part of the Outreach Diagram presentation has been extracted. You can download it HERE (right-click to download) and listen to it and use it as a study aid.

Listen to it on your MP3 player or iPod or you can burn it to an audio CD and listen to it in your car or at home. If you want a CD but are unable to make them let us know and we can do it for you.

Outreach Diagram Study Aid

An Outreach Diagram class attender in Greeley put this video together as a study aid for the mid-term and has graciously said we could use it! You might want check it out and see if it something it would benefit you as well.

http://web.me.com/bryankoch/Faith/Diagram_Study_Movie.html

Great SALT Retreat!

This past weekend there were 105 folks or so from Loveland and Fort Collins up at the YMCA Snow Mountain Ranch near Winter Park. It was a great time of learning, encouragement and growth. We learned about the Gospel of Jesus Christ which is all about the kingdom of God.

Mark 1:14-15 (NIV)
¹⁴ After John was put in prison, Jesus went into Galilee, proclaiming the good news of God.
¹⁵ "The time has come," he said. "The kingdom of God is near. Repent and believe the good news!"

Good teachings for young and old alike. There was at least 1 salvation and 3 baptisms. God's kingdom was definitely advanced.

Thanks to everyone that was able to be a part of that time. It was certainly a well made investment of time and money. Let's be trusting God for the "fruit" that will continue to be born.

Please Pray

Later today there will be over 100 middle school, high school students and parents from Loveland and Fort Collins traveling up to Winter Park for a 3 day conference/retreat. If you could be in prayer for this time, we know it will make a difference in many, many lives this weekend. Here is a quick excerpt from John Meyer in reference to what can be prayed for:

"Many of our kids have been to great conferences before. Many of them have been in a church environment all their lives. It is easy to have become numbed to the power of God's truth. Yet it is in these years that our teens will either make this faith their own or simply let it go, biding their time until they can walk away from it. Jesus said, "My sheep hear My voice..." I often pray for God to let people hear His voice. We can ask Him for that this weekend."

Outreach Diagram Quiz #6

This will b a tough week for many in the outreach class because of the SALT retreat this weekend. And so, I thought to myself, why not just post the actual quiz? I couldn't come up with any reason not to, so here it is: The Week #6 Quiz

Rejoicing in Hope

Romans 5:1-2 Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God

In my world, some days seem more worthy of rejoicing than others. And yet if our hope is in the glory of God, rejoicing will be a part of our daily walk with God. The problem for me is that my hope can be in other things and then that is when my spirit of rejoicing dissipates.

God, help me to keep my hope centered in Christ.

The God of Hope

Romans 15:13 - May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.

May God's rich hope be evident and obvious to you today.

Outreach Diagram Assignment Error

The reading assignment page numbers for the fourth item "Increasing Effectiveness" on this week's (#5) are incorrect. The pages should be 63-65.

Outreach Diagram Week 5 Assignments

Homework Assignments

Reading Review

God is Compassionate and Faithful

Lamentations 3:22-23 -

Because of the LORD's great love we are not consumed,
for his compassions never fail.

They are new every morning;
great is your faithfulness.

The God of Everlasting Hope Think It Through

Download for the Think It Through from yesterday.

Outreach Class Quiz Tips - Wk #5

For this week's quiz focus on:

• Memorize Romans 3:23
• Memorize Romans 2:11
• Write out the 10 Commandments (including no idols, no other gods and keep the Sabbath holy) and it's location (Exodus 20)

See everyone on Sunday at 3:30pm!

Outreach Diagram Assignments - Week 4

Homework Assignment

Reading Review

Complacency

Zephaniah 1:12 - At that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps and punish those who are complacent, who are like wine left on its dregs, who think, 'The LORD will do nothing, either good or bad.'

Just believing that God exists does not impress Him. The Lord is looking for those that not only believe that He exists but that He is able and does act. God has an agenda and is actively pursuing it. God also has an agenda for our lives and He is interested in those who have decided that He is all powerful and all knowing and will decisively act accordingly.

Consider this prayer today: God I acknowledge that you alone are God, that you are powerful and that you do act in real, tangible ways in this universe, in this world and in my life. God, everything is under your control. God, help me to act accordingly and to do your will today.

Faith and Belief

So encouraged this morning by Hebrews 11:6. Faith in God means believing that He does exist and that He will reward those who seek Him. Seek Him in faith today by believing that He is real and that He will be faithful to act in your life.

Seek - Listen - Believe - Obey - repeat, repeat, repeat, ...

A HUGE God - Think It Through

The Think It Through for this week can be found HERE. If you missed the message on Sunday, click HERE to download it.

Outreach Class Quiz Tips - Wk #4

The tips for this week are as follows:

1. Focus on verse memorization for Isaiah 53:6 and 1 Peter 1:16.
2. Be able to give the verse reference based on the verse text for all other verses learned so far.
3. Memorize transistion between Man and The result of Sin sections.

Where Are You?

In Genesis 3:9, God calls out to Adam and Eve, 'Where are you?'  They were hiding from God.  They were hiding because they had disobeyed God and they knew it and they were ashamed and guilty and so they hid.  Their sin had relationally separated them from God, which then led to physical separation, i.e. they hid from Him.

Thankfully, God came to us in the person of Jesus Christ to reconcile us relationally, spiritually and physically to Himself.  Hallelujah!  Do you believe?  Have you taken the free gift of salvation?  If so, then you now have an eternal relationship with God through Christ.  If not, consider it - there is nothing better than to be connected with the One who made you.

Relationally Speaking

eAccording to Mark 12:28-33, our Think It Through reading today, there are two categories of relationships that we should focus on as growing disciples of Jesus. One is our vertical relationship with God. We are instructed to love the one and only God with everything that we have - our heart, soud, mind and strength. The second is our horizontal relationship with other people, our neighbors.


What I must do today is figure out how that gets played out in my life today as I obey the "Great Commandment." It occurred tome this morning that it is not called the "Great Suggestion" so I better go get started!

God's Love

God not only loves us but He demonstrated His love towards us by sending His Son to our rescue.  God expects our love in return - not just with words but with action, to obey Him.

John 14:23-24 - Jesus replied, "If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. He who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.

Walk Thru The Diagram Video

Video we watched during class on Saturday.  Maybe a little strange, but useful and helpful nonetheless :)

Outreach Diagram Wk3 Materials

In case you missed class this week, here are the assignment sheets for this week:

Homework sheet

Reading Review Sheet

Have a great week of practice and preparation.  Keep working hard!

Outreach Quiz Tips - Wk3

On this week's quiz on Saturday, Feb. 13th, focus on the following:

• Psalm 11:7 - reference and verse on righteousness
• Fill in the verse references for the prior week's (Week 1) verses given the verse text
• Transition question between God and Man sections
• 3 aspects of God's holiness from the diagram

Samaritan's Purse in Haiti Video

Meet The Sokolls

In case you missed the introduction of Pat, Cindy and Sarah Sokoll into the Summitview community Church family, here is the service from last week.

Meet The Sokolls from Mikeal Macbeth on Vimeo.

Outreach Diagram Wk2 Materials

Outreach Diagram Powerpoint

Homework Assignments for Week 2

Reading Review For Assignment 2

Outreach Diagram Quiz Hint

This week's "pop quiz" for the Outreach Diagram class will focus on the 3 verses and transition #1. Practice these by writing them out several times each. See everyone tomorrow (Saturday, Feb. 6th) at 3:30pm.

Jesus Film Project

This famous film about Jesus has been seen in every country in the world and has been translated into hundreds of languages. God has used this film to build His kingdom. You can go to the link below to watch the entire film or mini-clips of it online.

The Jesus Film Project

True To His Name

In our Think It Through reading for today, I was struck by the phrase "true to my name." This was God's description of this particular church. My application thought when I read that phrase was: What a glory to God it would be if that would be a description of Summitview, that we have been and will continue to be true to the name of God. That's my prayer for our church today. Will you join me in that prayer?

Outreach Diagram Tip #2

Try to do something each day instead of waiting until the end of the week to do everything in one or two sessions. This will build review into your training schedule and will help you to retain things longer. In other words, cramming is not optimal!

Outreach Diagram Tip #1

Remember to practice your verses by writing them out. Writing a verse out is different than saying it. This is how you will be quizzed. Try to get even the punctuation correct.

Outreach Diagram Class - Week 1

What a blessing it was to have over 80 people yesterday for the Outreach Diagram Class!  We are so looking forward to see what God does through a handful of faithful people over the course of the next several weeks.  If you were not able to make it on Sunday, it is NOT TOO LATE to join in.  Let us know you still want to be a part of the class and we will get all of the materials for you.  All of the homework and materials for this week are posted below so you can download it and join in NOW without getting behind.  If you know of anyone that was planning on taking the class but was not able to be there yesterday, encourage them they can still join in.

• Homework Sheet for Week #1 (this tells you what you need to do this week in preparation for Week #2)
• Readings (This is the full manual - read chapters 1 and 2 as outlines on the homework sheet)
• Reading Review for Assignment #1
• Presentation Outline #1
• My Commitment
• Questionnaire
• Top Ten List (fill this out with "divine appointments" that God gives to you that you will purpose to share the diagram with)
• Diagram Video (stop by and pick up a DVD or watch it online here)
• Class Syllabus (this is the entire syllabus for the class)
• Pray!  Pray!  Pray!

Don't forget that their will be a "Pop Quiz" (minus the "Pop" since you know it's coming!) - focus on the verses, the 2 introduction questions and transition #1.

Remember that we will meet on Saturday, Feb. 6th at 3:30pm for our next class.  Have fun this week learning the first part of the diagram and we'll see you on Saturday.

Apocalypsis Week 5: Rev 2:12-17

Download the Think It Through for Week 5 of Apocalypsis.

Summitview Haiti Relief Fund

As mentioned on Sunday, we will be taking a freewill offering this coming Sunday, January 31st to do what we can to help the people of Haiti. If you would like to make an offering, you can do so then or if you would like to make a contribution online you may do so here. All collected funds will go to Samaritan's Purse.

Apocalypsis Week 4: Rev 2:8-11

The Think It Through for this week can be found here.

Feb 19th & 20th Men's Conference

Click here to download the brochure and registration for for the Men's Conference coming up.

Apocalypsis Part 3

The Think It Through for Apocalypsis Part 3 can be downloaded here.

A Savior

So glad that this prophecy in our Think It Through reading (Zechariah 9:9-17) was fulfilled over 2000 years ago in the person of Jesus Christ.  We have been given a wonderful Savior and I am grateful.

Teaching Moments

In light of the recent Haiti catastrophe, there will undoubtedly be questions and opportunities to talk with our kids and others about our response to what has happened.  Ultimately, we can either respond in fear or in faith - and of course God wants us to respond in faith.

I thought I would pass along the following thoughts from "National Center for Biblical Parenting" when it comes to how we respond to tragedy and what our response should be.  I have also added in a couple of comments in italics.

Dealing With Fear After Tragedy
Day to day life provides opportunities to teach children about God. It's the job of parents to frame the picture of world events, to help children understand life from God's point of view. Teachable moments become available in times of crisis. That doesn't mean that you preach or lecture. It means that you ask questions and carefully share information that can guide your children to right thinking.

So what do you say? How do you respond to their questions? How can you draw your children into productive discussions? What kinds of things can you do that will help your kids during this time?

Here are some things to consider when helping children deal with fear and questions about world events:

•  Be careful about lying to your children (I would say this stronger - never lie to your children - lying is a sin and is never acceptable - period) by saying, "It's all okay." Your children can see that things aren't okay. In fact, this kind of statement can be counterproductive and cause children to feel like they can't trust you, further increasing feelings of insecurity.

•  Explain that the world isn't out of control and help put these events into perspective. Pray with your kids about those directly involved in the tragedy.  (This is huge because this is a way that we as parents can mode trust and faith to them.)

•  God is with us always. We can trust him. His angels protect us. God loves us and cares for us and he is in charge (Psalm 46).

•  Answer your child's questions. Explain the details briefly in clear terms and then focus on the good that we see in God and in the people who are helping.

•  The solution for fear is to learn to trust. Trust is the ability to release control to another. Children can learn to trust when they take small steps of risk and have positive experiences over a period of time. Gently encourage children to take small risks of separation and then provide the comfort they need. During that process children need a lot of parental love, patience, encouragement, and support. Remember, it's God's presence that helps us through difficult times.

Outreach Diagram Class

Get ready for the Outreach Diagram class starting on January 31st.  There will be 13 sessions (see schedule below).  As you are thinking and praying about if this would be something that God has for you, I would encourage you to listen to Bill Young's Faithwalkers teaching entitled Life Changing Love.  You can find it at http://www.gccweb.org/conferences/faithwalkers/west/2009_teachings.  God so wants us to share what He has done for everyone through His Son Jesus Christ and He will use us to do it.  Are you thoroughly equipped?  I know I need to be better equipped.

Schedule: (all sessions from 3:30-5:00pm)
Sunday, January 31st
Saturday, February 6th
Saturday, February 13th
Sunday, February 21st
Sunday, February 28th
Sunday, March 7th
Sunday, March 14th
Sunday, March 21st
Sunday, March 28th
Sunday, April 4th (Easter) - no class
Sunday, April 11th
Sunday, April 18th
Sunday, April 25th
Sunday, May 2


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Everyone Who Calls

Joel 2:32
And everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved; for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be deliverance, as the LORD has said, among the survivors whom the LORD calls.

So thankful for this promise from God's Word that we found in the Think It Through reading for today from Joel 2:28-32.  God is so faithful and good - so much so that He doesn't want anyone to perish (2 Peter 3:9).  He proved that is true by sending His one and only Son to us (John 3:16).

Those Who Have No Hope

A simple thought from our Think It Through reading for today:1 Thessalonians 4:13-18.  The phase "who have no hope" caught my attention this morning.  There are many in this world that have to hope.  That is just a fact.  What God put on my heart this morning as I read that was will I care enough about those that have no hope - will I love them enough - will I have a great enough passion for them to share with them the hope of Jesus Christ?

As I have been thinking about what I would like to see God do in and through my life this year, I have decided that I would consistently and fervently pray for the following in 2010 related to this:

• To love others more
• A greater compassion for those without Christ (those who have no hope)
• Opportunities to be a witness for Christ - opportunities that I cannot get out of
• Opportunities to invite people to church
• Courage to speak truth in love
• Make my heart more like Jesus - a shepherd's heart
• Passion for obedience
• Passion for the Word
• Passion for good
• Passion for prayer
• Opportunities to give Bibles away
• God would stir me up and encourage me and give me a greater passion to share His truth with others

Thanks to Faithwalkers for stirring some of these in my soul and heart.  These are just a few of my prayers that I am trusting God for in 2010.  What are you trusting God for this year?  We pray about what we are trusting God for; we don't pray about those things that we are trusting in ourselves for.

Our Witness for Christ and Moral Hypocrisy

As I read an article this morning about a research study (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091229105906.htm) dealing with the relationship between power and moral hypocrisy, I was reminded that what we do and how we behave deeply matters, and if we claim to be a Christian, then it matters just not for our own life but more importantly it matters because our behavior reflects on Jesus Christ and all of His people.

As I read the article, I was reminded of Jesus, words to the religious leaders of His day who had a lot of power and who claimed to be moral and just:

Matthew 23:25-28 (NIV)
²⁵ "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.
²⁶ Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, and then the outside also will be clean.
²⁷ "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men's bones and everything unclean.
²⁸ In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.


I was also reminded of what Mark Darling said at Faithwalkers.  He said something like: 'He never wants to be famous because he couldn't handle it.  Human beings were not made for fame.  Jesus was and is the only person who can handle fame.' (not an exact quote)

Our efforts should seek to make Jesus Christ more famous.  God wants us to be clean on the inside and for our behavior to be a reflection of Christ.  I'm praying that God will prevent fame and power in my life and that through my life Christ will become more famous.

Daniel 9

A few random thoughts as I was reading through Daniel 9 from the Think It Through for this week:

1)  Daniel was reminded by God as he read the words that God had given to Jeremiah.  Daniel was reading his "Bible" and God spoke to Him and Daniel acted.  Think about that for a moment.  Daniel was reading the book of Jeremiah - the same words that we can read today in our Bible.  Very cool!  Not only was Daniel faithful to read God's Word, he then did something with it.

2) Daniel recognized the sinful ways of his people and cried out to God and God answered.  We can do the same.

3) 70 Weeks.  Different people have different views as to what the "70 weeks" mean.  Below is a graphic that illustrates 4 of these views:  (click on the image for a larger view)

One Year Bible Readings

The One Year Bible Readings can be found at:

http://svcconeyearbible.blogspot.com

Faithwalkers Music

Once again, there was some excellent music at Faithwalkers 2009.  In case you are interested, some of the original music can be purchased at http://www.aswetremble.com/shop

Steele's music can be found at: http://www.steelecroswhite.com/store.php

Faithwalkers Teachings Online

All of the teachings for Faithwalkers 2009 have been posted.  You can download them from http://www.gccweb.org/conferences/faithwalkers/west/2009_teachings.  There were 9 main session teachings - all of which were excellent.

As I have been reviewing my notes, I have been extracting some things I need to pray for in 2010 and some things I need to do.  One of my things to do in the next few weeks is to re-listen to each main session teaching and review my notes again.  I would encourage everyone to make a point to download these teachings and to actively listen to them and take some notes.

Think It Through - January 3

Download the Think It Through for January 3, 2010 (Apocolypsis: Revelation 1:1-3)

2010

For the Christian, the goal of this new year 2010 is the same as every other year.  Our ultimate goal simply doesn't change - to be conformed more to the likeness of Jesus Christ.  And so it is good to step back and ask a few questions:

• How am I doing at becoming more like Christ?
• Am I allowing God to transform and change my life?
• What areas of my life do I need to fully surrender to Jesus Christ?
• How am I contributing to the body of Christ?
• What prayers do I need to pray?
• What do I need to give?
  
• Do I truly want to see the lost get found by Christ?
• Do I truly love my brothers and sisters in Christ?
• Is my relationship with God the most important relationship in my life?
• Does my life actually reflect Christ?

The list of questions go on and on, but they are questions that we must ask if we are indeed going to be any different one year from now.  Take some time to ponder these and other questions and be open to the changes that God has for your life.  God has some things that He want to accomplish in us and through us in this coming year.

May God richly bless your life in this new year.