John Leaders Sharing Day

Schedule:

9:30-9:35: VCA (Megan)

9:35-9:45: Pray

9:45: Picture

9:45-10:15: Eat

10:15-10:50: Leaders Sharing

10:50-11:00- Songs

VCA:

Welcome to our BSF leaders sharing day...

Some quick logistical details for today...

In a few minutes we will pray…then TAKE A GROUP PICTURE…then eat…then at 10:15-10:20ish we will move into a time of sharing together...

I also have a couple of quick announcements…

LEADERS FOLIO:

Faithful service to God flows out of a personal, intimate, and dependent relationship with God.

Sometimes when we are busy serving others, we unintentionally neglect our own relationship with God.

2 weeks ago I encouraged the whole class, including each of you, to make a plan to meet with Jesus over the summer…remember- don’t eat chips for lunch…or you will come back in the fall..depleted..and serving will feel like a “have to” instead of a “get to”

BSF has something specifically created for the growth of leaders called “The leaders Folio.” This is something I personally have gone through the last two years and plan to do again this summer.

You can read this document from start to finish in an hour…but later today I am going to post a suggested reading plan to slow it WAY down so you can really internalize the material…and as you do…

May the Holy Spirit demonstrate His power to you as you grow in the knowledge and likeness of our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Corinthians 3:18 says: “And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.”

SUMMER PRAYER REQUEST (CARDS ON TABLE): The past two summers, we have asked every leader to write a personal request that you would like prayer for over the summer so that myself, Anna and Lea can be praying for you specifically. So at your seat is a notecard and up front here is a basket…before you leave today- write your request and drop it in the basket. I’m going to give you a minute or so to write and then we are going to pray together.

PRAY

BSF Global - HQ- God's guiding and direction as they prepare to teach and train TL's and STL's over the summer to teach Revelation - International- praise and prayer for the 7 women’s and 3 men’s Mandarin satellite classes (DOLMs) starting for the next study year to meet the needs of Mandarin-speaking leaders in North America - AT- for the new Area Team for Cantonese classes to support the rapid growth in Hong Kong BSF Local - Leadership- REST in the Lord and renewed encouragement to GO and tells others God has placed in front of us about Jesus - Marysville Prison/Transformational Recovery group- that they would continue to study God's word over the summer - Revelation- that God would continue to reveal potential leaders and protect leadership commitments over the summer - Host Church- for discernment on how to best utilize the building to meet the growing needs of the congregation - Local BSF Classes- that EVERY man, woman and child who wants to study Revelation to have a place to do so.

PICTURE

EAT

SHARE TIME 10:15

To kick us off…we have a little sharing day stand up/sit down tradition...

STAND UP/SIT DOWN.

Stand up if you are an only child.

Stand up if you are a first born.

Stand up if you have ever broken a bone.

Stand up if you prefer the mountains to the ocean.

Stand up if you play a musical instrument.

Stand up if you spilled a beverage on your BSF lesson book.

Stand up if you lost your name tag at some point this year.

Stand up if helped someone find their way through KBC this year.

Stand up if you ever stayed up past 10:00 finishing your BSF lesson.

Stand up if you ever finished your lesson in the parking lot on Tuesday morning.

Stand up if you are confident you would have been the first to reach Jesus’ tomb.

Stand up if you relate personally more to Peter than John.

Stand up if you relate more to John than Peter.

Stand up if God taught you something new in the book of John.

Stand up if you had to find childcare in order to fulfill your BSF leadership role.

Stand up if God used your role in BSF leadership to teach you something new.

Stand up if you have done John with BSF more than once.

Stand up if you studied Revelation in 2016.

Stand up if you invited someone to BSF this year.

Stand up if you saw God equip you to fulfill your leadership role.

Stand up if you know Jesus more because of your study of John.

awesome…so now..let’s here about how you know Jesus more…

Remember that today is your share day…we want you to share today so that tomorrow we can hear from the class members…

If this is your first sharing day remember..

Be AUDIBLE..

Be BRIEF

Be CURRENT

Be DISCREET- remain loyal and confidential

and EXALT the Lord in all you say…

and when you don’t know how to wrap up…

as always..say…”TO GOD BE THE GLORY!”

To help keep us on track, we have a few questions on the screen you can follow as a prompt..

So I am going to open it up now….who wants to start us off.

10:50…

We have a couple more stand up…

Stand up if this was your first year in leadership.

Stand up if you have been in leadership for more than 5 years.

Stand up if you have been in leadership for more than 10 years.

Stand up if God has called you out of leadership for next year.

I’m going to pray for us and then we are going to sing…

PRAY

Before we close, just a reminder that we will pray in here tomorrow as a leadership for Pre-Class prayer at 9:15.

To end our time together, we are going to sing…but before we do

I’m going to read…

John 1…it’s where we started and it feels like the perfect place to end.

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome[a] it.

6 There was a man sent from God whose name was John. 7 He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all might believe. 8 He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light.

9 The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world. 10 He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. 11 He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. 12 Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— 13 children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.

14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.

15 (John testified concerning him. He cried out, saying, “This is the one I spoke about when I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me.’”) 16 Out of his fullness we have all received grace in place of grace already given. 17 For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. 18 No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and[b] is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known.

Thank you for saying YES to Making Jesus Known through BSF this year…

Let’s stand and sing together..just our voices…

Lauren is going to lead us…