Month: March 2019

Dear Christ Church Small Group Leaders,

   Attached is the discussion guide for today’s messages on “Coming to Our Senses” on Luke 15:11-3. 

Videos of the morning sermon messages are available at the links below.

Pastor Temple- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOAmjsT6BLs

Pastor Conway- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEsx9KBlr5E

Leader Tips:

1. Reminder- no Discipleship Leader’s Breakfast this Tuesday as the pastors will be away at an annual Pastor’s retreat with the Bishop.  Next meeting is Tuesday April 9, 8-9am at Jacob’s Well
2. Reminder- Bible App workshop Tuesday 12:15pm in the Gathering Hall. Bring your own brown bag lunch and a smart phone – presentation by www.blueletterbible.com
3. The last pastor led Bible study on Land Without Borders is Thursday 7-8pm in Jacob’s Well.  All welcome!

Peace and Grace,

Dan Conway

Pastor of Discipleship & Outreach

Christ Church

Dear Christ Church Small Group Leaders,

Attached is the discussion guide for today’s messages “Living in a Dry Land” as part of our Lenten series “The Wilderness Way.” 

Pastor Hall’s and Pastor Temple’s messages can be viewed at  www.christchurchsl.org/sermons.

Leader Tips:

1. Resources for the Lenten Season and Lenten series- the daily devotional Listen to Him is available at Jacob’s Well for $10 or online at www.seedbed.com/dailytext and the book Land Without Borders is available at Jacob’s Well for $10 also.
2. This week’s session in the Land Without Borders study is video session 3 “Wilderness and Faith Witness” and chapter 5 in the book.  Next week, we are skipping session 4 in the video study and going straight to session 5, “Wilderness and Forgiveness” which is chapter 7 in the book for those who are following along.
3. Discipleship Leader’s Breakfast Topic for this Tuesday at 8am in Jacob’s Well- Renowned Methodist missionary, diplomat and author E. Stanley Jones.

Your Co-laborer In Christ,

Dan Conway

Pastor of Discipleship & Outreach

Christ Church

Dear Christ Church Small Group Leaders,

   Attached is the discussion guide for “Remembering the Long Way,” our second stop in the wilderness; the Israelites in the wilderness of Zin about to enter the Promised Land in Deuteronomy 8:1-10. 

Pastor Temple’s and Pastor Johnson’s messages are available on www.christchurchsl.org/sermons.  

Leader Tips:

#1- The parallel of today’s messages with the church-wide study in the Sunday School classes is video session 2 and chapter 4 in theLand Without Borders book by Dr. Jack A. Beck (How God Uses The Wilderness). 

#2- This book is available at Jacob’s Well for $10 as is the daily Lenten devotional book Listen To Him for the same price. 

#3-  This Tuesday at 8am, I will be meeting in Jacob’s Well with any Small Group, Bible study or Sunday school class leaders who wish to come to talk about John Wesley’s writing “The Character of a Methodist.”

May God bless you all as you meet in his name and seek his presence and guidance as a group in this season of Lent. 

Dan Conway

Pastor of Discipleship & Outreach

Christ Church

Dear Small Group Leaders of Christ Church,

    Welcome to our Lenten journey through the wilderness!  The first stop is Transfiguration Mountain.  Attached is the discussion guide for the morning messages- Settling In or Setting Out. 

The sermon video is online at www.christchurchsl.org/sermons. 

    Note: the Land Without Borders Study is being done in many of the adult Sunday school classes.  I am continuing to offer a different experience in the small groups with the sermon based discussion guides so that those small group members who are also in Sunday school classes will not have to do the same study twice in two different groups.

Leader Tips:

1. For those not in a Sunday School class who would like to do the Land Without Border’s study, they are welcome to join the Pastor-Led Bible study on this course on Thursdays at 7pm in Jacob’s Well.
2. The recommended devotional book for Lent- “Listen To Him” by J.D. Walt is on sale in Jacob’s Well or the church office for $10.  It is based on the gospel of Luke and follows the journey of Jesus from the Mount of Transfiguration to the empty tomb.  Also available online.
3. Discipleship Leader’s Breakfasts are continuing on Tuesdays at 8am in Jacob’s Well.  All teachers or group leaders are welcome to join me for a time of Biblical teaching and prayer.
4. Additional copies of the most recent issue of Christ Church magazine are available in the ministry information racks. 

Your Co-laborer In Christ,

Dan Conway

Pastor of Discipleship & Outreach

Christ Church

Dear Small Group Leaders of Christ Church,

     Attached is the discussion guide for this week’s message “The Power of One,” Ephesians 4:1-16. 

The sermon video is available athttps://www.christchurchsl.org/sermons/.  Please forward the guide and link to your small group in a friendly email reminder of you meeting this week.  You may also wish to include the following announcements:

1. Ash Wednesday worship services this week at Christ Church are at 7am and 7pm in the sanctuary.
2. Christ Church’s new recommended daily devotional for the season of lent “Listen To Him: Forty Days on the Road to Resurrection” will be available for sale at Jacob’s Well starting on Ash Wednesday (also available on Kindle or by email subscription atwww.seedbed.com/dailytext
3. The church-wide study during lent, Land Without Borders by John A. Beck (Jack Beck), is starting this week in the adult Sunday school classes and on Thursday nights 7-8pm in the Gathering Hall with the pastors leading.  Related themes and scriptures will also be present in the Sunday morning services as well. 
4. All teachers, leaders or rotating teachers in Sunday school classes, Bible studies or small groups are invited to join pastor Dan on Tuesday mornings 8-9am in the Gathering Hall for Discipleship Leader’s Breakfasts.

Your Co-worker in Christ,

Dan Conway

Pastor of Discipleship & Outreach

Christ Church