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    Foundations of Faith for New Believers: Leaders Manual (eBook)
    Foundations of Faith for New Believers: Leaders Manual (eBook)
    Foundations of Faith for New Believers: Leaders Manual (eBook)
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    Foundations of Faith for New Believers: Leaders Manual (eBook)

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    Foundations of Faith for new believers is a series of 10 Bible Studies around the basics of the christian faith.  The 10 subjects including Faith, Salvation and Prayer are easy to understand simple Bible studies that encourage the new Christian in their faith and encourage them to ask questions about their walk with Go

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherParvus Magna Press
    Release dateSep 1, 2015
    ISBN9781910372067
    Foundations of Faith for New Believers: Leaders Manual (eBook)
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    Sharif George

    Sharif has been teaching on Bible subjects for over 20 years. His passion is to help people get closer to God and to find their place in Christianity. Sharif has a great technical ability and a great informal style.

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      Foundations of Faith for New Believers - Sharif George

      Foundations of Faith

      For New Believers

      Leaders Manual

      By Nigel Brown

      & Sharif George

      Parvus Magna Press

      5 Ambleside Close, Leyton, London, E10 5RU

      Email: [email protected]

      Website: www.pmpress.co.uk

      © 2013 by Sharif George and Nigel Brown

      Nigel Brown and Sharif George have asserted their right under the copyright, designs and patents act 1988, to be identified as authors of this work.

      All rights reserved.  No part of this publication (excluding the student notes sheets) may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher or the Copyright Licensing Agency.

      FIRST EDITION - MAY 2013

      SECOND EDITION – September 2015

      British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

      A catalogue record and a copy of this book are available from the British Library

      978-1-910372-06-7

      Parvus Magna Press publishes limited run and niche interest books in the UK.    If you would like to see your book in print please email your manuscript to [email protected]

      Contents

      Introduction – Be Ready

      1. What Went Wrong

      Romans’ Road

      2. Funeral Service for the Old Man

      3. Spiritual Warfare

      4. The Baptism of the Holy Spirit

      5. Knocking on Heaven’s Door

      6. Invitation to Feast

      7. The Place to Be

      8. Culture Shock

      9. Heavenly Investment

      10. Fascinated by the Future

      Glossary of Terms

      Introduction – Be Ready

      The Teacher

      The role of the teacher is very often amalgamated into the role of the pastor but it is also a very specific anointing or calling, included in Paul's list in Ephesians.

      And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers,

      Ephesians 4:11

      There is a special blessing on teachers in the Bible and the teacher is numbered with the apostles and preachers as those who are called by God to a special work and a special anointing.

      For that reason, it is important to realise that as well as there being many warnings about shepherds not feeding the flock there is also this very stern warning from James specifically for teachers.

      My brethren, let not many of you become teachers, knowing that we shall receive a stricter judgment.

      James 3:1

      The judgement relates to teaching properly and teaching correct doctrine it is also a warning to the teacher to make sure they know their doctrine.

      The Teachers Role

      The teacher's role in society has changed a lot over the years so that education has become almost entirely vocational teaching.  The number of times my own children have come home telling me they are going to take X or Y so they can get a better job, whatever happened to a love of learning?

      Of course, part of the role of the Bible teacher is to instil truth into his class so that they are equipped for every good work (2 Timothy 3:17) whether that be evangelism on the streets, in their homes or in a pulpit ministry as a pastor or an evangelist. 

      The teacher prepares his students so they are able to answer those that question their faith.  But also the teacher prepares the student for testing and trials of faith.  Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God.  There is a direct correlation between faith and the Word of God.

      Faith is having the audacity to take God at his word.

      Smith Wigglesworth

      The other far more important role of the Bible teacher is to instil into the student a love for their Bible and for learning everything that it can teach them.

      One of the great privileges of the teaching ministry is watching people fall in love with the Bible and seeing them get it, watching the student grow in their knowledge of God and in faith.

      Our job as teachers is to teach a love for the Bible, so our students leave our classes hungry for more and eager to move up from milk to solid food.

      As you work through these next few chapters it is important to realise that your love for the word of God and for the subjects that you teach will be transferred or instilled into the hearts of your hearers and if you can get them into a love affair with the word of God then you will have done your job well.

      If you are able to instil into your hearers a strong and earnest desire to know more and more of God's Word, you will not only equip them for the present but you will also give them the tools to work out their own salvation with fear and trembling and start the mustard seed of faith growing.

      So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

      Romans 10:17

      The more a person gets into the Word of God, the more faith they will have when the trials hit and the better resource they will have to survive the buffeting of the enemy.

      Jesus tells of the sower who sowed seed and some fell on shallow ground where it quickly grew up and then withered and died for want of soil to bury its roots.  What if the farmer took time to find those seeds and get them planted deeply into good soil?

      It is part of a teacher's role to cultivate the soil and be sure that the seed has the best possible chance of growing and producing fruit.

      Throughout the 10 weeks of this New Believers’ course you will get the amazing opportunity to turn your hearers into seekers after truth and help them acquire a taste for the word of God.

      Connections

      The new believers’ class aims to connect the class together in relationship with each other, with members of the church, the teacher and also with the word of God.

      Give plenty of time for questions during the study, get the students involved, the more input and interaction you get the better.

      Keep it Simple!

      DON’T read the book to the class!

      We have experimented widely with different formats for the study and we have found that the ideal format is as set out below:-

      Prayer - Start off the evening opening in prayer and ask God into the room.

      Study

      Encourage the students to take notes, the student sheets and student book are both intended for that purpose.

      The maximum time for the study section should be 45 minutes including questions.  Allow questions in place of the material if you can.

      The material provided is enough for a 30 minutes study allowing 15 minutes for questions.

      When going through notes take the questions as you go along, this will break up the study and make it a little less formal.

      The idea is that the study is more an informative discussion rather than a classroom.

      After the study take some time for fellowship and also take some time to allow people to come to you and ask you questions privately.

      Preparation

      The Leaders manual is divided into 10 subjects each split into two parts. 

      The first part is an outline of the study and contains three points (each approx. 10 minutes) with some pointers to help form the study.

      The second part of the chapter is some source material to help you get to grips with the subject.  It contains some interesting quotes and of course the key scriptures for the subject.

      To prepare for the study take some time to study through the subject yourself and make your notes to fill out the outline to your own satisfaction.

      Don't include too much information at this stage but be sure you have enough to answer any key questions that may arise.

      DON’T read the book to the class!

      1. What Went Wrong – Outline

      The first lesson is all about salvation. To understand salvation we must realise how we got to the position of needing a saviour and also understand how lost we are without one.

      What went wrong [Romans 5:12]

      Perfect Start [Genesis 1:26ff]

      The Fall

      The fall [Romans 5:12]

      The Curse [Genesis 3:17]

      Fallen Man [Romans 3:10]

      The Law [Mark 10:17 - 19]

      Wages of Sin [Romans 6:23]

      None Righteous [Rom 3:23]

      God's Salvation through Jesus [Romans 5:8]

      God's Plan [Isaiah 53:1 - 5]

      Jesus and the Cross [Romans 6:10]

      Our Hope [Romans 10:9 - 13]

      1. What Went Wrong

      What you will find below is much more material than you need for the 30 minute study.  Use this study as a basis for your own notes - the idea is that you don't read it all out!

      What is it about man, which God would condescend to save him?  Why on earth does man need saving and what from?

      The idea of this lesson is to guide the new believer through the salvation story so they understand what went wrong and how God rectified it.  The new believer should come out of the class with a firm assurance of their salvation by the grace of God.

      Perfect start

      Man had the perfect start, everything he needed was created for him and with him in mind.

      Then God said Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.

      Genesis 1:26

      And God's declaration on the sixth day when he surveyed his whole creation was – it is good. 

      Then He rested.

      Then God saw everything that

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