Transforming Community - Thursday Bible Study

We concluded the topic of how to locate where you fit at work.

Today's session was a recap of the previous session as we had people who were not with us last week. Once again, we considered the various departments in church and were given various reflection questions to identify where we can possibly fit.

At today's session, we did an audit of the various roles available within a church community and explored where we could fit based on some reflection questions.

We had a fruitful session where we all concluded that everyone has a gift even if they go unnoticed.

Session was led by Paul Oyelere

In today's session, we focused on the eternal reward aspect of serving. We started by exploring that as Christians our faith is rooted in the resurrection. With eternal life in mind, we want to ensure we serve with God at heart to receive the reward that only God can give. Here are the two songs we listened to as part of our reflection: 1. Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus: https://youtu.be/j5qc0EcNgqw?si...

We introduced our new series on Serving: What is serving and why serve? Here's the link to Graham Kendrich's song, The Servant King: https://youtu.be/A0FSZ_iSYO8?si=0L79xNMN4IF0wN2X

At today's session, we concluded the recap we started on the prayer series. We focused on the following: - Faith and perseverance in prayer - Spiritual warfare and prayer - Getting started with prayer - Speaking in tongues

Today's session was a recap of the teaching on prayer. We focused on - What is prayer? - Why pray? - Types of prayer

We concluded the series on prayer with a prayer meeting using the life of different Bible characters as baseline.

In this session, we explored the benefits of speaking in tongues as a prayer language based on 1 Corinthians 14.

At today's session, we answered some questions about speaking in tongues including: - can we speak in tongues at will or do we only speak when enabled by the Spirit - what if a Christian does not believe in speaking in tongues - what about speaking in tongues in a congregational setting

At today's session, we introduced tongue speaking - a supernatural ability that God gives to those who believe in Jesus (Mark 16). We also explored the various examples in Acts when communities of people received the gift of tongues.

In today's session, we explored the third and fourth means of developing the words to use when we pray. We stressed that prayer can caught in addition to it being caught. Here's the song we reflected on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKk1tRTPFX0

In this session, we explored how we can use Scripture to pray by praying for what the Bible prescribes or using the words of Scripture.

We concluded on previous week's teaching on the role of prayer in spiritual warfare.

Today's session focused on exploring what Spiritual Warfare is

Rev'd Wonu Adefala from Salem South London led tonight's session focusing on Luke 18:1 - 8.

We concluded on the different types of prayer with prayer of forgiveness (Matthew 6:12) and prayer of protection (Matthew 6:13)

At today's session, we explored the prayer of petition and focused on Matthew 6: 11 'Give us today our daily bread.'

In this session, we started exploring the different types of prayer by using the Lord's Prayer in Matthew 6 as a model for prayer.

We concluded on the remaining reasons why we need to pray. Although we had intentions to also explore the different types of prayer, our conversation veered off topic to focus on faith and other issues that may impact our ability to receive from God. Here's the link to song we reflected on at the end: https://youtu.be/ShrHbsRCEKQ?si=YJkdOi-fJA9uZtEB

In today's session, we explored three reasons why we pray.

We started a new series on the habit of prayer. At the session, we defined prayer and also provided two reasons why we should pray.

In this session, we went through all the teaching sessions relating to our series on the habit of studying the Bible. One of the resources mentioned during the session was the Blue Letter Bible: https://www.blueletterbible.org/ for personal Bible study prep. If you would like to join Julie's book club, please email us at hello@transformingcommunity.co.uk