City Night Church Bible Studies for 2010 commence tomorrow night.
We'll spend 4 weeks looking at the book of Titus together.
Where? Upper Chapter House (entry via Bathurst St ... NOT the glass door)
When? Tuesday 12th and 19th Jan and Tuesday 2nd and 9th Feb
What time? 7pm - 8.30pm
What do I bring? A Bible (if you can) and a pen. Study booklets will be provided.
Whether or not you have been involved in prayer and Bible study groups before, why not come along tomorrow night and study God's word with some like minded people.
Over the next 4 weeks there will also be opportunities to sign up for our regular groups for the rest of the year that meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays in the city, in city lounge rooms and suburban lounge rooms.
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Monday, January 11, 2010
Monday, February 16, 2009
Prayer and Bible Study Groups
Tomorrow night (Tuesday 17th) is our launch night for groups for this year. This is a fantastic night to come and pray for our leaders as we commission them for the task of teaching and pastoring our groups for 2009, and as we encourage those who have not yet decided whether to commit to a group for this year that being involved in a prayer and Bible study group is just so good that they should not miss out!
We're planning to start the year with 10 groups.
City Bible Fellowship on Tuesday nights in the Upper Chapter House
6.30pm for dinner ($5 per night)
7.15-8.45pm group time
8.45-9.30pm supper
We'll have 4 groups at CBF this year:
Daniel W and Leanne V
Steve S
Grahame O
Paul and Ruth R
Simply Christianity will continue to run regularly on a Tuesday night with Mike and Mandy.
City home groups on Wednesday nights
2 groups on a Wednesday night from 7-9pm, that occasionally meet together:
Andrew and Rachel with Emma
Jeremy and Sharon
Suburban home hroups
We have 4 other groups that meet in homes around the suburbs:
Northside - James and Laetita in Greenwich
Eastside - Ben and Emma in Kensington and Nathan and Justine Jones in Coogee
Southside - James and Johanna in Mortdale
Groups will begin the week commencing Sunday 22nd February. Please prayerfully consider joining a group for the edification of both you and your group.
We're planning to start the year with 10 groups.
City Bible Fellowship on Tuesday nights in the Upper Chapter House
6.30pm for dinner ($5 per night)
7.15-8.45pm group time
8.45-9.30pm supper
We'll have 4 groups at CBF this year:
Daniel W and Leanne V
Steve S
Grahame O
Paul and Ruth R
Simply Christianity will continue to run regularly on a Tuesday night with Mike and Mandy.
City home groups on Wednesday nights
2 groups on a Wednesday night from 7-9pm, that occasionally meet together:
Andrew and Rachel with Emma
Jeremy and Sharon
Suburban home hroups
We have 4 other groups that meet in homes around the suburbs:
Northside - James and Laetita in Greenwich
Eastside - Ben and Emma in Kensington and Nathan and Justine Jones in Coogee
Southside - James and Johanna in Mortdale
Groups will begin the week commencing Sunday 22nd February. Please prayerfully consider joining a group for the edification of both you and your group.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
TONIGHT: City Bible Fellowship & Simply Christianity
Just a reminder that City Bible Fellowship is on tonight ...
6.30pm in the Upper Chapter House for dinner together (BYO or $5 - RSVP to Mandy: mandy@thebibletalks.org.au by 1pm)
Prayer & Bible Study Groups start at 7pm
It is also week two of Simply Christianity
If you want to find out what Christianity is really about, then this is the group for you. We kick off at 7pm. Please feel free to join us from 6.30pm for dinner as well.
6.30pm in the Upper Chapter House for dinner together (BYO or $5 - RSVP to Mandy: mandy@thebibletalks.org.au by 1pm)
Prayer & Bible Study Groups start at 7pm
It is also week two of Simply Christianity
If you want to find out what Christianity is really about, then this is the group for you. We kick off at 7pm. Please feel free to join us from 6.30pm for dinner as well.
Monday, February 18, 2008
Bible Study Leaders Meeting
Reminder to Bible Study leaders: It's on tonight.
Reminder to everyone else: Please pray for your TBT Bible Study Leaders.
Reminder to everyone else: Please pray for your TBT Bible Study Leaders.
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Bible Study Lauch
We held our Bible Study Launch on Tuesday night, where I gave a talk on what to expect as part of a TBT Bible Study group. Here are the main points/highlights.
1. Expect to Encourage Each Other.
ESV Hebrews 10:24-25 And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.
It’s where we encourage one another. It’s where we say to each other. Keep it up. Keep following Christ. Keep on the narrow road. Look to Jesus. How can I help you this week, as you help me this week to remain Christian. Now you can’t encourage one another if we don’t meet together.
2. Expect to Bear with One Another
It’s where we share with one another our fears and burdens. It’s where we care with one another about our hopes, joys and aspirations.
ESV Colossians 3:12-13 Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.
3. Expect Prayer
Expect prayer. Expect to pray for one another. That means we need to open up to each other. And share our concerns. Share with each other how you are going. What you find difficult in the Christian life. What you find a joy in the Christian life.
Now some of us might not be married, and others of us might be married to non-Christians, so these relationship could and should be some of the most intimate relationships we have as Christians.
4. Expect Bible Study
Expect a bible study. We don’t study Christian books; we don’t study the latest thing. We study the bible. We are on about Jesus, not some Christian authors take on it.
Why do we study the bible? Because the bible is the word of God. It is spoken by God.
ESV 2 Timothy 3:16-17 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.
That is, when we come to study the bible we ought to expect those four things in verse 16 to occur.
· Expect to be taught about salvation, and God and Jesus, and the gospel, and how to live life in response.
· Expect to be reproofed, or rebuked. Expect to be told to get back on track. When we do wrong, we must be rebuked. We are, after all, disciples of Jesus. We don’t do as we please, because we’ve been bought by another.
· Expect to be corrected. That is, we will have wrong thoughts about salvation and God and Jesus and the gospel, and when we study the bible, we will be corrected in our thinking and in our lives.
· Expect to be trained in righteousness. That is, shown/modeled/exampled how to live righteously.
5. Expect Hard Work
Now it won’t be easy, because we are swimming upstream. You’ll have spent the day at work, and you wont feel like going to Bible study. The easy option is just to go home and put your feet up. You may even think that you learn nothing new at bible study. You might be a well grounded Christian, and you’ve heard it all before.
That’s when you are primed for a fall. There is never a time when we think like that. There is never a time when we can say, I’ve heard it before. Too often we want to be taught something new, or it to be worded in such a way that it sounds new. But, when we meet together, we are to remind ourselves of the gospel.
ESV 2 Peter 1:12-13 Therefore I intend always to remind you of these qualities, though you know them and are established in the truth that you have. I think it right, as long as I am in this body, to stir you up by way of reminder,
Did you see that Peter reminds his readers of these things, despite in verse 12; they know and are established in the truth.
1. Expect to Encourage Each Other.
ESV Hebrews 10:24-25 And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.
It’s where we encourage one another. It’s where we say to each other. Keep it up. Keep following Christ. Keep on the narrow road. Look to Jesus. How can I help you this week, as you help me this week to remain Christian. Now you can’t encourage one another if we don’t meet together.
2. Expect to Bear with One Another
It’s where we share with one another our fears and burdens. It’s where we care with one another about our hopes, joys and aspirations.
ESV Colossians 3:12-13 Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.
3. Expect Prayer
Expect prayer. Expect to pray for one another. That means we need to open up to each other. And share our concerns. Share with each other how you are going. What you find difficult in the Christian life. What you find a joy in the Christian life.
Now some of us might not be married, and others of us might be married to non-Christians, so these relationship could and should be some of the most intimate relationships we have as Christians.
4. Expect Bible Study
Expect a bible study. We don’t study Christian books; we don’t study the latest thing. We study the bible. We are on about Jesus, not some Christian authors take on it.
Why do we study the bible? Because the bible is the word of God. It is spoken by God.
ESV 2 Timothy 3:16-17 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.
That is, when we come to study the bible we ought to expect those four things in verse 16 to occur.
· Expect to be taught about salvation, and God and Jesus, and the gospel, and how to live life in response.
· Expect to be reproofed, or rebuked. Expect to be told to get back on track. When we do wrong, we must be rebuked. We are, after all, disciples of Jesus. We don’t do as we please, because we’ve been bought by another.
· Expect to be corrected. That is, we will have wrong thoughts about salvation and God and Jesus and the gospel, and when we study the bible, we will be corrected in our thinking and in our lives.
· Expect to be trained in righteousness. That is, shown/modeled/exampled how to live righteously.
5. Expect Hard Work
Now it won’t be easy, because we are swimming upstream. You’ll have spent the day at work, and you wont feel like going to Bible study. The easy option is just to go home and put your feet up. You may even think that you learn nothing new at bible study. You might be a well grounded Christian, and you’ve heard it all before.
That’s when you are primed for a fall. There is never a time when we think like that. There is never a time when we can say, I’ve heard it before. Too often we want to be taught something new, or it to be worded in such a way that it sounds new. But, when we meet together, we are to remind ourselves of the gospel.
ESV 2 Peter 1:12-13 Therefore I intend always to remind you of these qualities, though you know them and are established in the truth that you have. I think it right, as long as I am in this body, to stir you up by way of reminder,
Did you see that Peter reminds his readers of these things, despite in verse 12; they know and are established in the truth.
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