INFORM:
Feb 21 – Breakfast by the Johnson’s
Feb 21 – 6:30 pm Night of Praise
Feb 23 – 6:30 pm Ladies Night at Brandi Neal’s House
Mar 3-7 – GLOBAL FOCUS (some additional info in class this week)
Mar 6 (evening) – Class Missionary Fellowship *CANCELED*
***Please be praying for our missionaries Richard and Ashley Whittenmore and be thinking of creative ways to be a blessing to them.
Apr 16-17 - God’s Game Plan for Marriage w/ Steve Farrar
INSPIRE:
Each of your days begins with the same humiliating journey in the arms of your relatives. You completely depend on their strength and charity to carry you to the beautiful temple gate to beg. Life for you has always been this way. From your parents first shock at seeing the birth of your deformity, their hopes for you quickly vanished. You are a disgrace to them and a sign to those around you of the judgement of God. “Who sin was it, yours or your parents?”, they ask. You remember days as a child, being left out by the temple with your helpless difigured legs exposed to the crowd. You remember seeing other children running, dancing, and leaping. But, this was not for you. Your lot is full of awkward glances, dimissive gestures, and ridicule. Your presence is not cherished, but rather endured and pitied.
Can you see this? Can you imagine yourself in this way? In Acts 3 we will meet a man who knew this reality everyday. Yet he was about to encounter the power of the Holy Spirit through the lives Peter and John. This week in class we will be looking into this miraclulous account. Read through Act 3!
INCLUDE:
- How do we commonly respond to those with a disability?
- What do you think the man expected from Peter and John?
- Do we know anyone like this lame man?
