Friday DIVE

  WELCOME and THANKS for joining us.   INTRODUCTION How do you treat with others (Christians) who believe differently from you?   TEXT for study Romans 14:13-23  NIV 13 Therefore let us not judge one another anymore, but rather resolve this, not to put a stumbling block or a cause to fall in our brother’s way.   14 I know […]

  WELCOME and THANKS for joining us.   INTRODUCTION How do you treat with others (Christians) who believe differently from you? Are you tolerant of their beliefs, appreciating their rights to hold different beliefs?  Or are you dismissive of their different views? Should it depend on what their beliefs are? What does the Bible say?

WELCOME and THANKS for joining us.   INTRODUCTION How do you treat with others (Christians) who believe differently from you?   TEXT for study Romans 14:1-23  NIV 1 Receive one who is weak in the faith, but not to disputes over doubtful things.  2 For one believes he may eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.  3 Let not

WELCOME and THANKS for joining us.   OPENING COMMENTS In our study, we use the inductive approach, which involves a three-step process centered on observation, interpretation and application. Observation … What does the passage say? Interpretation … What does the passage mean? Application … What does the passage mean for us today?  IOW, how can

WELCOME and THANKS for joining us … for another Friday night dive into the Bible.   TEXT FOR TONIGHT’S DIVE … Romans 13:1-7. The objective … to use the inductive approach (observation, interpretation, application) to Bible study to see what we can get from our dive into the passage. OBSERVATION of the Text       Romans

WELCOME and THANKS for joining.   OBSERVATION TEXT for Tonight … Romans 12:9-21 9 Let love be without hypocrisy.  Abhor what is evil.  Cling to what is good.  10 Be kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love, in honor giving preference to one another;  11 not lagging in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord;  12 rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation,

WELCOME and THANKS for joining us.   Romans 12:3-8 3 For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith.  4 For as we have many members in one body, but

WELCOME and THANKS for joining us.   Romans 12:1-8 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.  2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and

WELCOME and THANKS for joining.     TEXT FOR THIS STUDY … Romans 11 OBSERVATION WHAT DOES THE TEXT SAY? Romans 11:1-6, 7-10, 11-12, 13-18, 19-24, 25-27, 28-32, 33-36 INTERPRETATION WHAT DOES THE TEXT MEAN?  What should we understand? Let’s dive in … and see what we can glean. Romans 11:1-6 1 I say then,

WELCOME and THANKS       TEXT FOR TONIGHT’S STUDY … Romans 11:13-24      11 I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? Certainly not! But through their [b]fall, to provoke them to jealousy, salvation has come to the Gentiles. 12 Now if their [c]fall is riches for the world, and their failure riches for the Gentiles, how much more their fullness! 13 For