Conducting a Seeker Bible Study

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Conducting a Seeker Bible Study

• The Three Ps of Church Planting
• Prayer
• select a period (best time of the day, length of
  time, over how many days)
• select a place (classroom, campus chapel,
  library study room, dormitory, etc.)
• select another person ( find another apostolic
  believer two praying is more powerful than one)
• identify a purpose for prayer (start with Luke
  102, pray for labourers, pray for a burden for
  souls, pray for direction)

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The Three Ps of Church Planting

• People
• identify a pocket of people (target a group of
  people e.g. engineers, law students, Asians,
  Blacks, males, females, Muslims, Hindus, foreign,
  etc.)
• identify a person of peace who is open to the
  gospel (find one that is hungry for God, one that
  is broke, one that has a need)
• select a time and place for meeting (e.g.
  Thursdays at 330 p.m. at the Student Centre.
  Also specify the length of time the study will be
  45 minutes for 3 weeks)

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The Three Ps of Church Planting

• Purpose
• purpose to proclaim the gospel (identify a
  lesson. Make it systematic e.g. the 7 signs of
  Jesus from the gospel of John, Or Rightly
  Dividing the Word)
• purpose to stay (continue meeting with person
  even after the series of lessons are finished
  even if the person has not yet repented. Be a
  friend before you can lead someone to Christ)
• purpose to support (minister to that person, meet
  their needs spiritually and encourage them)
• purpose to disciple (after they have made a
  decision to serve Christ, get them in a formal
  bible study from your church. Invite them to your
  assembly)

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Five things to consider DPALS

• When discipling a person of peace, consider these
  five things
• Demonstrate what it means to be Christian (in
  daily prayer and bible reading). Also take that
  person to bible studies that you are conducting.
• Participate allow that person to participate in
  the bible study with you.
• Allow that person to teach a bible study in your
  presence while you watch them. Do not correct
  them in the study when they make mistakes.
  Encourage them and support them.

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Five things to consider DPALS

• Link the person to your assembly and youth
  leader, activities, and discipleship class.
• Send them off to conduct bible studies on their
  own however, meet with them for training and
  follow-up. Meet regularly with your disciple for
  time of share and care.

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Three things to do when you gather to worship at
a campus church

• Welcome everyone with a smile, handshake, and a
  blessing from the Lord. Hospitality (people love
• to gather around food give thanks), hand out
  and eat.
• Worship - saturate the place with singing,
  praise, dancing, lifting hands, and prayer. Be
  creative in worship. Make it fresh and new.
• 3. Word someone should lead in sharing a word
  of exhortation, testimony, or a revelation.

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Bible Study Suggestions

• The Seven Signs of Jesus (Book of John)
• Turned water into wine (John 2 1-11)
• The Noblemans son healed (John 4 46-54)
• Healing the Paralytic man at the Pool of Bethesda
  (John 51-16)
• Feeding of the Five Thousand ( John 6 6-14)
• Jesus walks on water (John 615-21)
• Man born blind (John 91-41)
• Raising Lazarus from the dead (John 111-46)

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Questions to ask

• What does it show you how people are?
• What does the story tell us about what people
  need?
• What does the story tells us about Jesus?
• What do you think that Jesus would like to do in
  your life?

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Six Questions to ask regarding any passage

• What did you like best?
• What did you like least?
• What did you not understand? (You could ask
  someone else what it means). It is important for
  them to discover truth for themselves.

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Bible Study Suggestions

• What do you personally need to do about it?
  (Practical application of the scripture)
• What verse or phrase could you think about during
  the week?
• Pick a verse or phrase to thing about during this
  week and when we come back well talk about it.

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Icebreaker

• What went well this week? What did not go well?
• Expect the unexpected in the bible study.
• What to do in a church campus?
• Acts 242 daily teach, fellowship, worship,
  prayer.
• Hebrews 10 23-25 encourage one another to good
  works.
• I Corinthians 14 25 manifest the spiritual
  gifts.
• Fear looks, Faith jumps

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A Ten Minute Bible Study

• Ask these 5 questions
• - Have you ever lied? (then wait for the
  answer)
• - What does that make you? (he/she should say
  a liar)
• - Have you ever stolen something before? (wait
  for the answer)
• - What does that make you? (he/she should say
  a thief)
• - Have you every looked at someone in lust?
  (wait for the answer)
• - Matthew 528 says that you have committed
  adultery in your heart if you look on a woman and
  lust in your heart after her.

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A Ten Minute Bible Study

• By your own admission you a lying, thief, and
  adulterer in your heart.
• If you were to die today where would you go, hell
  or heaven?
• If you were guilty of a crime and stand before a
  judge, would he let you go?
• If he is a good judge, he would not.
• If you say to God let me go, would He let you go?
  No, because He is just.

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A Ten Minute Bible Study

• Now if you are in court and you are fined and
  cant pay it and someone came and paid the fine
  for you, how would you feel?
• God did that through Jesus when He came and died
  on the cross. He took your place on the cross.
  Jesus paid for your sins and mine. If you confess
  your sins and believe in your heart that Jesus
  died for you and was resurrected for your
  justification you will be saved.
• Repent now and ask Jesus into your heart. Ask God
  to forgive you in Jesus sake and He will. As a
  way of demonstrating your willingness to follow
  the Lord, you should now be baptized in water, by
  immersion as the scripture teaches and in the
  name of the Lord Jesus. When you have done this
  then the Lord will fill you with His Spirit, as
  he has promised (Acts 238)

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Campus Ministry Videos

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