Prepare: What kind of bad talk normally dominates your converasation concerning church activity, misson and people?
Read: Exodus 17:1-16
Five primary questions emerge from the reading of today's passage. These questions need to be honestly addressed, if what we read should teach us how to live.
(1-4) Do we crush a leader so badly, that the loneliness and despair male him cry out to the Lord? To doubt a God-sent leader is to doubt God. If God has in some way verified the leadership (14:31), should we then still question it?
(3,7) Do we have land marks in out life called Massah and Meribah? Paul urges us to be without complaining so that we can be blameless (Phil 2:14)
(8-12) Does the Pastor of your church fight the battle for the Lord, all alone by himself? A lonely leadership is a difficult leadership. What efforts have you taken to help your struggling Pastor? Check Paul's words of gratitude about Onesiphorus (II Time 1:16, 17)
(15) The banner was a visible sign in battle to spur the army to keep fighting. As long as it was up, there was victory. How do we keep this banner lifted, so that others engaged in a life of faith will be
emboldened to find victory? Everytime you testify for the Lord, you raise a banner.
(14, 16) The Amalek generation is the type who harm God's people without cause. Do you hurt people who have done nothing to harm you? Do you justify such injury? In what ways do you exhibit this Amalek attitude?
Respond: Do something today in your words and actions that will let your Pastor know that he is not alone.
Read: Exodus 17:1-16
Five primary questions emerge from the reading of today's passage. These questions need to be honestly addressed, if what we read should teach us how to live.
(1-4) Do we crush a leader so badly, that the loneliness and despair male him cry out to the Lord? To doubt a God-sent leader is to doubt God. If God has in some way verified the leadership (14:31), should we then still question it?
(3,7) Do we have land marks in out life called Massah and Meribah? Paul urges us to be without complaining so that we can be blameless (Phil 2:14)
(8-12) Does the Pastor of your church fight the battle for the Lord, all alone by himself? A lonely leadership is a difficult leadership. What efforts have you taken to help your struggling Pastor? Check Paul's words of gratitude about Onesiphorus (II Time 1:16, 17)
(15) The banner was a visible sign in battle to spur the army to keep fighting. As long as it was up, there was victory. How do we keep this banner lifted, so that others engaged in a life of faith will be
emboldened to find victory? Everytime you testify for the Lord, you raise a banner.
(14, 16) The Amalek generation is the type who harm God's people without cause. Do you hurt people who have done nothing to harm you? Do you justify such injury? In what ways do you exhibit this Amalek attitude?
Respond: Do something today in your words and actions that will let your Pastor know that he is not alone.
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