Kingdom
Relationships Course.
Lesson Seven:
Building With Words (CSG facilitator and leader’s copy)
WELCOME SECTION: Warmly welcome all the people and ask everyone to introduce
(20 mins) Themselves. Ask each person to say something encouraging
about the person on their right. (must be true!)
WORSHIP SECTION : The worship leader should select songs about encouragement..
(30 Mins)
Suggested songs are: Be Bold! Be Strong!, God will make a
Way, I have a destiny.
Allow for the operation of the gifts (prophecy, new song etc.)
WORD SECTION : The facilitator should take the group through the attached
(60 mins) Lesson. Get different people to read through the sections
and any Bible Verses. Stop to discuss as prompted allowing
everyone to get involved (drawing in the quieter ones). If
the discussion is going off track bring it back to the main
topic. Be conscious of the time and pace yourself.
If there are any practical excercises take time to discuss the
Lessons learnt in conjuction with the lesson theme and don’t
allow too much wasted time.
When you’ve finished the lesson have a time of praying
For each other, encouraging prayers!
WORKS SECTION
: Pray outwards for unsaved friends , for your neighbourhoods
(10 mins) to have revival, for Singapore as a whole and even for our
missions work in China etc..and other pressing prayer needs.
Close with offering and benediction. Go and eat…..
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Kingdom
Relationships Course.
Lesson Seven : Building With Words (CSG member’s copy)
Read
together Proverbs 11:9-11
The
leader reads: “Through right communication we can do much to build up one
another. In fact a large proportion of the way in which we edify one another is
by our words – think about that! But
equally so words can be, and often are, destructive. A Greek philosopher once
asked his servant to provide the best dish possible of which he could think.
The servant prepared a dish of tongue, saying,”It is the best of all dishes,
because with it we may bless and communicate happiness, dispel sorrow, remove
despair, cheer the fainthearted, inspire the discouraged, and say a hundred
other things to uplift mankind”. Later the philosopher asked the same servant
to provide the worst dish possible of which he could think. A dish of tongue
appeared on the table and the servant said, “It is the worst because with it we
may curse and break human hearts, destroy reputations, promote discord and
strife, set families, communities and nations at war with each other”.”
Read
Proverbs 18:21. What two potentials does the tongue possess ?
Read
James 3.
In
one word describe the tongue (see verse 6)… discuss this word!
What
two options does the tongue have in the verses 9 and 11 ?
If
our words are envious, self-seeking, bitter, what source do they proceed from
(verses 14-16) ?
If
our speech is pure, peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy, without
partiality or hypocrisy, where does it proceed from (verse 17) ?
WISE
ADVICE FROM PROVERBS ABOUT COMMUNICATION.
On
eight different cards write the following…
Distribute
the cards to eight different people (if less then some will have more than one
card) and ask each person to read out their verse and answer the question.
In
the following references various ways of building people through our words are
given. For each verse state (i) The type of communication and (ii) it’s
character or effect. The references
are: Proverbs 15:1; 25:11; 25:12; 25:13 and 27:9.
The
following can be discussed in the group if there is time…
(a)
How
wrong communication had a bad effect.
(b)
How
good communication helped to promote growth and well being.
Take
time to pray words of encouragement over each other!
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