Practicing Christian Leadership, Student Workbook, SW11

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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: Suffer me never to think that I have knowledge enough to need no teaching, wisdom enough to need no correction, talents enough to need no grace, goodness enough to need no progress, humility enough to need no repentance, devotion enough to need no quickening, strength sufficient without thy Spirit; lest, standing still, I fall back for evermore.

Nicene Creed and Prayer

~ Eric Milner-White, 1884-1964. 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 2, Effective Christian Education: Incorporating, Parenting, and Discipling .

Quiz

Scripture Memorization Review

Review with a partner, write out and/or recite the text for last class session’s assigned memory verse: 2 Timothy 2.1-2.

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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

“You Haven’t Proven You Are Sorry.”

We have all experienced situations where, after wrong was done to someone and the wrong acknowledged, there has been serious debate about what constitutes a “repentant attitude.” Opinions vary greatly among Bible-believing Christians as to what a restored person must do in order to “prove” that they are sorry for what they have done. This difference of opinions varies from full restoration and restitution of all that was done wrong, to simply the verbal acknowledgment that we are sorry for what we have done. In your judgment, what is the most appropriate expression that a person can give to show that they are in fact sorry for what they have done against the Lord and others, and to restore those who have been hurt through their actions?