Notes to come
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Archive for August, 2006
Isaiah 42:1-4 will be used as a launching point for this lesson: Christ, the Perfect Servant. It is noteworthy to see the Lord’s delight: a sense of pride and joy in the introduction of His Son for there has never been anyone like Him. True there have been decent people and good men but all have disappointed God at some point in their life. But here, referring to his actions, is one who always did those things that pleased the Father. It would be ambitious to claim that all of the Perfect Servant will (or can) be told so we won’t. We’re going to look at some characteristics of the perfect servant and while occupying ourselves with Him we might perhaps learn how to conduct ourselves as servants.
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Is the character sketch of an overseer from 1 Tim 3 obtainable? Well, yes, in fact all believers should be characterized by 1 Tim 3 conduct—but w all come short. The elders aren’t perfect either but they are characterized by these perfect characteristics. Further a person can only really be effectively shepherding if he reflects a proper shepherding character. “Qualifications” conveys an idea of proving or disproving something at any particular time: in other words, qualifying for the work of an overseer is a continual process.
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The topic for this session is discipline in the local church. It is an expansive subject and one can easily spend 6 sessions on this. If we boil it down to it?s essence it is basically 3 levels as highlighted in the following Scripture: Gal 6:1-2; Matt 18:15-17, 1 Cor 5:1-13 and 2 Cor 2:4-8. It is, admittedly, a difficult subject to deal with although it is entirely Biblical and must be taught.
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1 Pet 5. Acts 20. John 21. All of these verses tell us to feed the flock, feed the flock, feed the sheep, tend the flock, care for the flock. Noteworthy: they all use the same word. Feeding the sheep is more expansive than giving the sheep food, more encompassing then simply filling their need to eat. It consists of bringing them to the food, of watching over them as they eat, as tending for them and caring for them and protecting them.
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When looking to shepherd one must first look to the Good Shepherd, the Lord Jesus Christ. By taking note of Him and His work we would come to a closer understanding of what it is to shepherd perfectly.
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This post will organize all the posts for the Greenwood Hills Shepherding Conference which occurred the August 17(PM) to August 19 (AM) 2006. With sessions being an hour in length and offering a 5-15 minute break save for meals which were 30 minutes, I didn’t have much time to do more than tight outlines during the messages. So I reformatted them in essay form–they may be a tad long at times
- The Good shepherd (John 10) -Randy Amos
- Feed the Flock (1 Pet 5; Acts 20:17, 28; John 21:14) -Larry Price
- Discipline in the Local Church -Willie Burnett
- 1 Tim 3:1-3 -Warren Henderson
- Christ the Perfect Servant (Is 42:1-4) -Willie Burnett
- The Perfect Master -Warren Henderson
- Continued Steadfastly (Acts 2:42) -Randy Amos
- Earnestly Contend for the Faith (Jude 3) -Larry Price
- 1 Tim 3:4-5 -Willie Burnett
- The Untangled Life (2 Tim 2:1-4 key: 3, 4) -Warren Henderson
- Faithfulness to the Gospel (1 Cor 1:17) -Randy Amos
- “Woe be to the Shepherds of Israel” (Ezek 34:1-25, 31) -Willie Burnett
- Christ the Perfect Savior -Lary Price
- Reverence in a casual world: Using his name (Ps 111:9) Warren Henderson
- 1 Tim 3:6-7 -Larry Price
- The Crown of Glory (1 Pet 5:4) -Randy Amos
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Christian Carnival Psalms 136 Edition is up at Jeremy’s site.
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If there’s a blog there’s an opinion. If there’s
an opposing opinion there is an extreme. It’s the nature of blogging.
Extreme liberals versus Extreme Conservatives. Hyper Atheists versus
Biblical Extremists. It gets pretty darn annoying when those polar
opposites are so blind to everything else that they wind up being a
travesty of their position. One of these that come to the fore in my
immediate thinking because of their extreme irresponsibility are Family
Blogs.
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Lingamish moved to a new address and is using the prettiness of wordpress. Show him some love since the spam-ware is going to give him a headache. Anyway, he has an interesting concept about Bible Puzzlers. It’s sort of like a Biblical Studies Group Participation thing but focus more on Bible Study and Application and subsequent application. Check it out. (I aso recommended some of you for it).
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A couple of carnivas are up right now.The Portions Christian Carnival and the Biblical Studies carnival is also up. I submitted my post on John 3:14-16 to both of them but I only made the Christian cut…heh heh. Ah well, there’s always next month.
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