Merry Christmas

Have a great Christmas celebration this year.  Christmas celebrates the birth of the One who fulfilled the Old Covenant and established God's New (Unconditional) Covenant with His people through the blood of Christ, the spotless Lamb of God.

See you next year.

Leadership Training (Exodus 32:1-33:6)

Idol Time (Exodus 32:1-6)

God and idols don't mix.

How is sin causing you to rationalize your attitude and behavior?

What good things are your doing for God to compensate for the idols in your life?

What tangible things in worship are you substituting for the invisible God?

What unbiblical teachings are you embracing that have led to a false view of God and His character?

Advocacy (Exodus 32:7-14)

Love for God and for people leads to intercession.

On whose behalf are you interceding to God?

When you confront a brother, are you more concerned about your reputation or about God's reputation?

Self-Sacrifice (Exodus 32:15-33:6)

Sin leads to loss of fellowship with God.

What sins are you bearing that need to be humbly repented of before God?

In what areas of your life have you yet to submit to God?  What are you waiting for?

If anyone, who is it that has paid the price for your sin?

What are you tolerating in your sphere of influence that God views as detestable?  What are you going to do to deal with it?

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Tabernacle Worship (Exodus 25-31)

Specification (Exodus 25-28)

God's work requires God's calling and direction.

How might your service to God really not be service to Him at all due to your attitude?

How closely do God's commands guide your daily life?

What ministry, symbolized in tabernacle worship yet fulfilled by Christ, are you grateful for?

How does your giving reflect the giving that pleases God – from a willing heart?

Preparation (Exodus 29-30)

Preparation for God's service requires atonement for sin and anointing by God.

What new work is God calling you into and what do you need to do to ensure you are ready?

What sins are you tolerating that need to be taken to the wash basin of repentance?

What are you giving back to God in gratitude for the life He's given you?

How do you know that your sins are forgiven?

Implementation (Exodus 31)

God will always provide the ability to accomplish His required tasks.

What abilities has God given you that you need to employ for His service?

How are you questioning God's ability based upon the seeming lack of talent at hand?

What reminder has God given you that it is Him that makes you holy and ready for His service?

God's Covenant (Exodus 21:1-24:18)

Accountability  (Exodus 21:1-22:15)

With humanity comes accountability.

If you are an employer, how are you treating your employees with equal dignity regardless of their pay level?

As an employee, how are you ensuring that you give your employer an honest day's work, every day?

Who have you injured and what type of restitution can you make for the injury?

How have you neglected someone else's property?  And what can you do to make things right?

Societal Impact (Exodus 22:16-23:19)

Holy living effects all areas of a believer's life.

What area of your life are you holding back from God?  Are you giving Him the first and best of everything?

How might you be guilty of conditional justice, giving so you can get, or only giving to those who can return the favor?

Does holiness characterize all of your life or only church and BSF?

How might you be allowing the corruption of our society to adversely effect you?  What are you going to do to change that?

Provision (Exodus 23:20-33)

God provides for His people throughout life.

How has provided for you as you obediently follow His will?

What blessing have you missed out on due to your disobedience to God?

Ratification (Exodus 24:1-18)

Christ is the only way to enter in and to obey God's covenant.

For you, is God's law merely written in stone or has He written it upon your heart?

What is your response in regard to God's new covenant in Christ's blood?

How well are you doing at keeping God's moral law out of love for Christ?

God Speaks (Exodus 19:1-20:26)

Prerequisites (Exodus 19:1-25)

God instructs those who are ready and willing to obey.

Are you willing to obeying God no matter what He commands you to do?

If so, how are you preparing yourself to hear from God?

If not, why not?  Is God not trustworthy?  Is He not just?  Is He not perfect in all He does and requires?

What do you plan to do this week that will prepare you to meet with God?

Proclamation (Exodus 20:1-17)

God's prohibitions are really protections.

How have you been wrongly using the 10 commandments as a means of becoming right with God?

How do you need to become more serious about the intent of the law?

What commandments are you neglecting, thereby adversely effecting your relationship with God and/or others?

Posture (Exodus 20:18-26)

Fearing God is the basis for obedience and authentic worship.

Does the thought of God frighten you, or does it fill you with awe?

On whose terms are you approaching God, His or yours?

What images are you putting alongside God and what do you need to do to remove them?

Who is providing mediation between you and YHWH?