CELL NOTES 13/5/08

ICE BREAKER

What are you normally doing at 9.00 a.m. on a Saturday, Sunday, weekday?

THEME

The first sermon.

Reading; Acts 2: 1-14 & 36 - 39

SERMON SUMMARY

1) Holmes and Watson story. We can miss the obvious.

2) The dramatic events of Pentecost that led to the first sermon.

3) Jesus is alive, He is Lord and Christ.

4) Who or what pulls the strings in your life? A fear, a person, an ambition?

5) Jesus came to be master of our inner lives. Repentance means changing direction, so that He may be so, and to give us freedom to live in that relationship.

6) Trust Him (Blondin) and be open about it (Baptism)

7) We will receive

            Forgiveness.

            The gift of the Spirit to empower us.

QUESTIONS OF APPLICATION

1) Which group of people described in the reading do you most easily relate to?

2) When have you been empowered by the Spirit to witness for Jesus?

3) Have you ever encountered the gift of tongues used in this way, or another way?

4) What has been your experience of repentance and baptism?

5) How does Jesus’ place as King over all effect your daily life? Is there an area you would like Him to take command over?