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Thursday Leadership Lesson: Serving Our World

Thursday, October 19th, 2006

This is Part 7 of our Thursday Leadership Lesson Series on Service. Today, we will talk about how to mobilize our groups to serve the world.
Jesus left his disciples with one final command:
Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and [...]

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This is Part 6 of our Thursday Leadership Lesson series on Service. Today, we will talk about Serving Our Communities.
In Matthew 25, Jesus clearly spells out how the good will be separated from the bad:
“But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit upon [...]

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This is Part 5 of our Thursday Leadership Lesson series on Service. Today, we will talk about Serving Our Church.
In most small group-based churches, there are two types of small groups: welfare small groups and contributor small groups. The first type of group thrives off of church welfare. Welfare groups believe that the church exists [...]

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We are currently in a series on service, and today I want to talk about fostering an attitude of service within your group. The healthiest groups strike an appropriate balance of inward, outward, and upward focus. I believe our groups will be better if they are characterized by a passion for and involvement [...]

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Thursday Leadership Lesson: Serving Your Group

Thursday, September 21st, 2006

On a night that Jesus could have understandably been concerned only about himself, he picked up a towel and demonstrated in a powerful way what servant leadership really meant.

Before the Passover celebration, Jesus knew that his hour had come to leave this world and return to his Father. He now showed the disciples the full [...]

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We are launching into our new series on service, and we begin today at the very beginning– developing an attitude of service in our own lives as leaders. Here is the bottom line: we need to view service as a lifestyle, not a project.
If you are like me, there is a tendency [...]

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Thursday Leadership Lesson: The Good Samaritan

Thursday, September 7th, 2006

A savvy lawyer asked Jesus what he must do to be saved. Jesus told him to love God and love his neighbor. The man then asked who his neighbor was, and Jesus told the following story:
Jesus said:

“A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he fell into the hands of robbers. [...]

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