Thursday, 21 August 2014

6: Honouring Leaders part 1

Welcome to the sixth of eight sessions on A Culture of Honour.  These messages were brought at Jubilee Church Solihull.   You will find all the podcasts for this series here.


Bible Verses
Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.   And God has placed in the church first of all apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then (workers of) miracles, then gifts of healing, of helping, of guidance, and of different kinds of tongues.  Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles?  Do all have gifts of healing? Do all speak in tongues?   Do all interpret?  Now eagerly desire the greater gifts.

3 reasons
Leaders are God’s Appointment (for us), God’s Arrangement (in the body) and God’s Authority (on them).

Rob mentions Renewal.  This is a large church local to Jubilee.

Is anyone among you sick? Let them call the elders of the church to pray over them and anoint them with oil in the name of the Lord.  And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise them up. If they have sinned, they will be forgiven.


Worship Song
10,000 reasons



Journaling
In your journaling you may want to write your feelings and your prayers and ignore the prompts.  The prompts are to help you and you can choose those that speak to you most.  You can download these prompts as a PDF.

In our culture of fairness and equality what do you think about God’s arrangement that some people have a greater anointing?
What anointing or gifting do you have?  What gifting are you desiring?
Who inspires you to grow in your gifting?
What name have you given yourself?   What name has God given you?
In your own church or workplace are you prepared to take the risk of honouring those that lead us or who have roles more prominent than ours?    It will lead to incredible blessing.
Have you been hurt in the past by someone in authority?  Have you been able to deal with this?

You can see my creative response to this session at Newly Creative.

I hope you that you have found today's message and journal prompts useful.  Share your thoughts, questions and journaling in the Facebook group.

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