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In Loving Memory of our
Brother Shawn Carey
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Children’s Chat
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Worship
“You Make Me Brave”
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Parables…
What is the best story you have ever heard? Movie? Book?
Why do we love stories so much?
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Parables
Why do you think that Jesus taught in parables?
Why wasn’t Jesus more direct?
What is a “parable”?
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Why Parables?
-Good teaching technique
-Engages the listener – forces them to become part of the
story.
Really all of the Bible is a story of God and our history –
parables remind us of that.
-Takes faith and effort to understand.
-Can teach so much more than just one fact.
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Matthew 13
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Why Parables?
What did Jesus tell the disciples when asked why he teaches
in parables?
Why is it a secret?
Who gets the secret?
Who does not get the secret?
Does Jesus want to be mysterious and for people not to
understand?
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PARABLE OF SOWER
Who is the sower / farmer?
-God
What is the seed?
-Word of God
What is the soil?
-Our hearts and minds
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What is being produced in
you?
Are you allowing Satan to steal the Word of God from you
by not reading it… not trying to understand it….not
wanting it?
Are you only playing the “Church game” where you come
to church or Bible Studies, but don’t really expect change in
your life?
Are the struggles and worries of the world choking out the
Word?
Is the Word producing fruit in your life?
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The Lord’s Supper
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Prayer
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Announcements
Remember Today Is Second Sunday Supper = Food at end
of service – please stay and fellowship
Deaf Social – next Saturday?
Sat Afternoon Aug 22nd in the sanctuary – Memorial Service
for Shawn Carey