Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Community
Putting the Purposes
Into Practice
Session 12
worship and prayer
Show the following video clips from Nuevos Cimientos in one sitting:
• Incarnation and Presence: 0:14-8:44
• Community and Reconciliation: 8:45-14:10
• Service and Social Action: 19:29-27:50
• Justice and Advocacy: 27:50-33:06
• Conclusion: 33:19-35:40
After having shown the video clips, ask participants how they feel now
after seeing the video clips on four of the eight purposes of the church and
having studied different Scripture passages related to these purposes.
What struck them most about seeing these different churches engage with
their communities?
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Divide students into the same groups of four to five. If the class is small, do not
divide. Have students use the worksheet “Reflections on the Integral Mission of
the Church” as discussion guide and discuss their answers to the questions.
• Look at the numbers you circled. Share your responses with each
other. What do your answers tell you about yourself and your daily
life? Discuss your responses with one another.
• Look at the numbers you placed in boxes. Share your results with each
other. What do your answers indicate about your church? Discuss
your responses with one another.
• Add all the numbers in circles, and add all the numbers in boxes.
What steps could your church take to become more like the Church
was intended to be?
• If you have identified your church as a lake church, how could you
help your church move from being a lake church to a river church?
closing prayer
Ask a participant to close in prayer.
5 personal notes
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total time:
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