Practicing Christian Leadership, Mentor's Guide, MG11

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P R A C T I C I N G C H R I S T I A N L E A D E R S H I P

After reciting and/or singing the Nicene Creed (located in the Appendix), pray the following prayer:

Nicene Creed and Prayer

Lord, comfort the sick, the hungry, the lonely and those who are hurt and shut in on themselves, by your presence in their hearts; use us to help them in a practical way. Show us how to set about this and give us strength, tact and compassion. Teach us how to be alongside them, and how to share in their distress deeply in our prayer. Make us open to them and give us courage to suffer with them, and that in so doing we share with you in the suffering of the world for we are your body on earth and you work through us.

~ Michael Hollings and Etta Gullick Appleton, George, ed. The Oxford Book of Prayer . Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. p. 121.

Put away your notes, gather up your thoughts and reflections, and take the quiz for Lesson 3, Effective Church Discipline: Exhorting, Rebuking, and Restoring .

Quiz

Scripture Memorization Review

Review with a partner, write out and/or recite the text for last class session’s assigned memory verse: Hebrews 12.5-8.

Turn in your summary of the reading assignment for last week, that is, your brief response and explanation of the main points that the authors were seeking to make in the assigned reading (Reading Completion Sheet).

Assignments Due

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Family First Is More than a Motto

In an urban church filled with dear saints and great need, the elder board was overrun with the specific problems of many of its members. The elders, all good saints and servant leaders, were willing to do whatever was required to meet the needs of the believers. One elder, though, was concerned about his love for his own family first. A fine brother, he was very concerned about how the needier members of the body sapped the energy of everyone else with their problems. He was of the philosophy that his own family was to come first, and was committed to making them first in every way–time, effort, schedule. Although quite noble in motive, this dear brother had no problem in making other elders shift their schedule if it