9 August 2020 – [8] Walking together with Jesus – Brother Meshach

Mark 1:35-39
Walking together with Jesus 8 – Partnership with God and His work

Sermon Points

Sermon Points

Walking together with Jesus means: 

1. Hearing the words of Jesus, that he our teacher has for us! 
2. Becoming more and more like Jesus, because his teaching comes with God’s supreme power to make things happen 
3. being delivered from evil as Jesus’ presence and teaching confronts and deals with it with supreme authority

Discussion Questions

1. One of Martin Luther’s main principles in the time of the Reformation of the church is “Sola Scriptura” – “by Scriptures alone”. This means the Christian Scriptures are the sole source of authority for Christian faith and practice that cannot be wrong. Why is this principle so important for us as a church?
2. What experience have you had of Jesus’ teaching changing your life? 
3. How can we help one another resist evil and overcome it in Jesus, as we walk together with him?

1. Desiring communion and fellowship with the Father (v35). Jesus demonstrated the secret of his growth and impact by his constant communion with the Father.
2. Being Kingdom Minded (v36-38). Jesus was able to focus on the task of the father by avoiding distractions from the men.
3. Walking in the authority of the Spirit (v39). Jesus had authority to go into every city to preach and cast out demons because of God’s Spirit at work in Him.

Discussion Questions

1. What practical ways can we be determined to maintain a constant communion with the Father?
2. What are some of the things we’ve observed as the major distractions or impediments to our constant communion with the Father?
3. How can we contribute to the corporate devotion as a church in walking with Jesus?
4. What are the ways we can be able to influence our colleagues, friends, neighbours, classmates for the kingdom’s sake?
5. How can we trust the Holy Spirit to use us in reaching out to our environment with miracles and signs following us?
6. How can we take authority over our lives and families in the place of prayer by stopping demonic operations… healing the sick amongst us and banishing the spirit of fear and timidity?

26 July 2020 – [6] Walking together with Jesus: the teacher with power over evil – Pastor Paul

Mark 1:21-28
Walking together with Jesus 6: the teacher with power over evil

Sermon Points

Walking together with Jesus means: 

1. Hearing the words of Jesus, that he our teacher has for us! 
2. Becoming more and more like Jesus, because his teaching comes with God’s supreme power to make things happen 
3. being delivered from evil as Jesus’ presence and teaching confronts and deals with it with supreme authority

Discussion Questions

1. One of Martin Luther’s main principles in the time of the Reformation of the church is “Sola Scriptura” – “by Scriptures alone”. This means the Christian Scriptures are the sole source of authority for Christian faith and practice that cannot be wrong. Why is this principle so important for us as a church?
2. What experience have you had of Jesus’ teaching changing your life? 
3. How can we help one another resist evil and overcome it in Jesus, as we walk together with him?

19 July 2020 – [5] Walking together with Jesus summons to follow and to reproduce – Pastor Paul

Mark 1:16-20
Walking together with Jesus summons to follow and to reproduce

Sermon Points

Walking together with Jesus is about: 

1. Following Jesus 
2. Jesus’ sovereign summons  where we are promise: God will make us what he wants us to be- “fishers of men”
3. Our confident surrender  decisive faith laying everything down

Discussion Questions

1. What can it look like to base being church on “following Jesus together”? 
2. How does Jesus’ making us the “fishers of men” he wants us to become,  best fulfill our own needs as a church for spiritual growth, care and well-being too? 
3. What might it look like for us as a church to lay everything down for God’s restart? 

12 July 2020 – [4] Walking together with Jesus demands life reorientation – Pastor Paul

Mark 1:14-15
Walking together with Jesus demands life reorientation

Sermon Points

1. Being people of the good news that comes from God for now.
2. Engaging with the reality that God’s rule over people’s hearts and lives is now being established.
3. Reorienting our lives around this new reality.

Discussion Questions

1. What are the implications of the fact that as a church we are a family whose lifestyle, thoughts, relationships, words, are to proclaim the Good News that comes from Almighty God? 
2. In what ways have you seen God’s Kingdom in Jesus changing lives, families, communities? 
3. In what ways might we need to reorient our attitudes, agendas, programmes, planning (repent) as a church in the light of God’s Kingdom work planned through us? 

28 June 2020 – [2] Walking together with Jesus – In the forgiveness of sins – Pastor Paul

Mark 1:1-8
Walking together with Jesus: in the forgiveness of sins

Sermon Points

1. Makes sense of our yearning for heaven 
2. Is the secure state we are born again into in Christ 
3. Gives us an honest relationship with ourselves 
4. Gives us a humble relationship with others 
5. Gives us a healed relationship with God

Discussion Questions

1. How would you explain the difference between God’s hating the sin but loving the sinner?
2. How can we accept our bad sides without accepting our wrong doing?
3. How does accepting the fact of our bad side (confessing our sinful nature) actually become a vital step in our healing and changing to be more like Jesus?

21st June 2020 – [1] Walking together with Jesus – Re-start! – Pastor Paul

Mark 1:1-8
Walking together with Jesus: Re-start!

Sermon Points

1. Our story begins with meeting Jesus
2. Its always good news to be with Jesus!
3. To be with Jesus = to be with the Supreme Lord, God!
4. Jesus brings us the gift of new life in the age to come
5. By bringing us to a complete new direction through his accepting us

Discussion Questions

1. How will the fact the Jesus who is with us as the almighty Lord who supernaturally intervenes in human lives shape our prayer life together this week? 
2. How will our attitudes to ourselves and one another be shaped this week, by the presence of the supreme Lord Jesus in our midst as our senior partner in what we’re thinking, saying, doing? 
3. Why is it necessary for us to accept our own badness or that done to us as Jesus has accepted us before we can be changed and healed of it? 

14th June 2020 – Pentecost in Pandemic 3 – Pentecostal Proclamation – Pastor Paul

Exodus 20:1-6; Deuteronomy 6:4-5;  1 Corinthians 8:4-6; Isaiah 44:1-5
Pentecost in Pandemic 3 : Pentecostal Proclamation

Sermon Points

Pentecost means:

1. One enthusiastic conversion will flow after another! 
2. To new life, with all things under God
3. And to belonging with us as God’s people
4. A time to start over!! Reset! 

Discussion Questions

1. Who has God put in your life right now to befriend, pray for and share Jesus’ life, love and message with? 
2. What challenges you in living every moment under the Lordship of Christ? 
3. What fresh ways is God giving you and us together to be God’s family in these days? 

7th June 2020 – Pentecost in Pandemic 2: Pentecostal Pouring – Pastor Paul

Isaiah 44:1-5
Pentecost in Pandemic 2: Pentecostal Pouring

Sermon Points

Pentecostal Pouring:

1. Plants the miracle of new life in Jesus in the believer!  
2. Confirms God’s loving grace in the believer! 
3. Refreshes the thirsty believer with love that casts out fear 
4. Enlivens the DNA of new life in Jesus in the believer that is designed to multiply 

Discussion Questions

1. How would you describe your experience of being refreshed by Jesus’ living water? 
2. What could it look like as God pours out his Spirit on the dry spiritually dead international community in Bremen and Bremerhaven? 
3. What are your next steps in sharing the new life of Jesus he has planted in you with others?

31th May 2020 – Pentecostal People – Pastor Paul

Isaiah 44:1-5; Ephesians 1:3-14
Pentecost in Pandemic 1: Pentecostal People

Sermon Points

Pentecostal people are:

1. Crooked made straight 
2. Chosen in Christ 
3. Caused by the Lord 
4. Created in pre sin design (from the womb)
5. Comforted by the Spirit  

Questions For Discussion In Families Or Online Groups

1. What do you think our being addressed by Good as “my chosen servant” means for us as a church? 
2. What refreshing “life giving” experiences have you had of being church together with others? 
3. What possible leads do you see where God might want to spring church up next in and among you and your connections? 

24th May 2020 – the Good Works that flow from Hope – Pastor Paul

Titus 2:14; Luke 14;1,12-14,
Perspective Hope 5: the Good Works that flow from Hope

Sermon Points

1. Connect with the zealot in you…!! Titus 2:14
2. To do good works of love to everyone Titus 2:14
3. Be focused, not afraid – Luke 14:14
4. Flow with the hope of your reward to come in heaven…! Luke  14:14
5. And the cleansed heart given you by the Lord to whom you belong Titus 2:14 

Questions For Discussion In Families Or Online Groups

1. How can we better connect with Jesus’ zeal in us to do good works of love?
2. How can we help meet one another’s needs for worship, fellowship and learning from God’s Word in this pandemic?
3. In what ways can we continue to grow as a church in the pandemic time?