This week's lessons: Acts 2:42-47, Psalm 23, 1 Peter 2:19-25, John 10:1-10

Adult Student Pew-work

Focus Statement: “They broke bread at home, and ate their food with glad and generous hearts.”

  1. Do the many activities of our life as a congregation get added to our busy calendars as more and more stress, or are they qualitatively different?

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  1. How do you think visitors to your church perceive the activity of those who are there – do theyfind themselves wanting to learn more, to gather with the folks in your church, to break and share the bread, to pray not in solitude but in community?

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  1. How, in the reality of our 21st-century Canadian life, should we understand the example of 'having all things in common; ... and distributing the proceeds to all, as any had need?“

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  1. How does this reading affect how we might consider issues of economic justice?

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  1. How might we imagine our lives re-shaped and re-directed, even significantly, so that we might experience "glad and generous hearts?"

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Next week's lessons: Acts 7:55-60, Psalm 31:1-5, 15-16, 1 Peter 2:2-10, John 14:1-14


This week's lessons: Acts 2:42-47, Psalm 23, 1 Peter 2:19-25, John 10:1-10

Sermon Summary

What Scripture is the Sermon is based on?

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What is the main point of the Sermon?

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Write down any figures of speech used by the preacher (Metaphors, Similes, hyperbole)

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Write down any new, unusual or particularly interesting words the preacher uses

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Next week's lessons: Acts 7:55-60, Psalm 31:1-5, 15-16, 1 Peter 2:2-10, John 14:1-14