Margins

3. Called to Love All People

Note: In this episode, you will hear briefly from several “neighbors” whose stories we will get to know more fully throughout the course of the next six episodes. Pre-Video Question Read Mark 12:30-31 and Galatians 5:14: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul…
Grace Gathering
April 25, 2021
Margins

2. Spend Yourself

Consider how a material-only handout, i.e. giving food, without relationship, might heighten someone’s feelings of shame and disgrace. Consider how listening and getting to know someone might help someone feel valued and heard. Pre-video Question Read Isaiah 58:10-12 “And if you spend yourselves in behalf of thehungry and satisfy the…
Grace Gathering
April 18, 2021
Margins

1.Start with Strengths To Love the Least, Last, and Lost

Before watching the film, familiarize the group with the concept of Asset Based Community Development. Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) or Asset Based Community Driven Development as it is sometimes called, is grounded on three principles: Everyone has giftsEveryone has something to contributeEveryone cares about something and that passion is…
Grace Gathering
April 11, 2021
Surrender

7 – Celebration, Worship, and Victory

As we are moving out of 6 weeks focus on surrender and the life of David, we now move to a place of celebration, worship, and victory! If the cross gave us victory over sin, the Resurrection of Jesus gave us victory over death. In raising Jesus from the dead,…
Grace Gathering
April 4, 2021
Surrender

5 – Blessing our Human Enemies when we have power and influence

Watch Andy Stanley’s https://www.rightnowmedia.org/Content/Series/364929?episode=4 There are times when we are mistreated, treated unfairly, or when people do things or believe things that go contrary to what we believe. In the world, people respond in these situations by retaliating, disregarding, or justifying any type of mistreatment. David disagreed with Saul, did…
Grace Gathering
March 21, 2021
Surrender

4 – The Importance of Partnerships and Alliances

Background: David had a calling on his life to lead the nation of Israel but we never fulfill our ultimate calling without connecting with others through partnerships and alliances. The partnership and alliance with Saul’s son Jonathan was a divine relationship. They had a commitment and covenant together that meant…
Grace Gathering
March 14, 2021
Surrender

3 – When Rumors and Lies Spread

Watch the video from David Nasser- David Series | When Life Isn't Fair Note to Leader: Begin video at 2:54 and end video at 13:57 Most of us have experienced someone spreading a lie about us behind our backs. Sometimes these lies are simply based on unintentional misinformation and other…
Grace Gathering
March 7, 2021
Surrender

2 – The Possibility of the Impossible

Watch Andy Stanley's David Series Session 2 1 Samuel 17, Psalm 20 We all have seemingly insurmountable and impossible circumstances that God can makepossible by his power and strength. No one thought David could defeat the giant Goliath.And in the natural realm, this was an impossibility. However, David had a…
Grace Gathering
February 28, 2021
Surrender

1 – Chosen for Surrender and Influence

We have been chosen to a life of surrender and influence. Watch Video 1 on The Surrendered Life. 1 Samuel 16, Psalm 78:70, Psalm 147:10 It was by God’s grace that David was chosen. It was not because he was better than the others, but purely by grace. God had…
Grace Gathering
February 21, 2021
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