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    Five Things God Uses to Grow Your Faith Bible Study Participant's Guide
    Five Things God Uses to Grow Your Faith Bible Study Participant's Guide
    Five Things God Uses to Grow Your Faith Bible Study Participant's Guide
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    Five Things God Uses to Grow Your Faith Bible Study Participant's Guide

    By Andy Stanley

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    Imagine what life would be like if you had PERFECT faith.

    In this video-based Bible study (DVD sold separately), pastor and best-selling author Andy Stanley builds a biblical case for five things God uses to grow BIG faith.

    Imagine how different your outlook on life would be if you had absolute confidence that God was with you. Imagine how differently you would respond to difficulties, temptations, and even good things if you believed with certainty that God was in all of it and was planning to leverage every circumstance for good.

    This Participant Guide is filled with helpful discussion starters, video overviews, a Leader's Guide and much more. It's designed to be used with the companion Five Things God Uses to Grow Your Faith DVD (sold separately). When used together they provide a powerful catalyst for spiritual growth.

    Sessions include:
    1. Big Faith
    2. Practical Teaching
    3. Providential Relationships
    4. Private Disciplines
    5. Personal Ministry
    6. Pivotal Circumstances

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherZondervan
    Release dateApr 17, 2013
    ISBN9780310692164
    Five Things God Uses to Grow Your Faith Bible Study Participant's Guide
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    Andy Stanley

    Communicator, author, and pastor Andy Stanley founded Atlanta-based North Point Ministries (NPM) in 1995. Today, NPM consists of eight churches in the Atlanta area and a network of 180 churches around the globe that collectively serve over 200,000 people weekly. As host of Your Move with Andy Stanley, which delivers over 10.5 million messages each month through television, digital platforms, and podcasts, and author of more than 20 books, including Irresistible; Better Decisions, Fewer Regrets; and Deep & Wide, Andy is considered one of the most influential pastors in America.

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      Five Things God Uses to Grow Your Faith Bible Study Participant's Guide - Andy Stanley

      INTRODUCTION

      Touching Every Story

      by Andy Stanley

      Imagine for a moment that you had absolute, perfect faith and confidence in God—in a personal God who knew your name and always heard your prayers. Even when life was rocky and things weren’t going your way, even when circumstances only got worse . . . imagine if the natural response in your mind and heart would be, God’s in control; he’s going to work this out; he always leverages bad things for good purpose; and he has a perfect plan for my life. So I’ll just wait patiently and see what he has in store for me.

      Think how different your life would be. Imagine your insecurities being replaced by increased confidence. Imagine the ability to remain calm when facing temptations and adversity, even tragedy. You’d wake up every day knowing God was absolutely bigger than all of that, always there to walk beside you through whatever you encountered. You’d have no fear for your family, your career, your relationships, your marriage, and your finances.

      Wouldn’t that be amazing?

      A Little Irritating?

      Maybe you’ve met people like that. They seem to have this mind-boggling, bulletproof, unshakable trust in God, even when they’re going through horrible ordeals. There’s something inescapably attractive about them, and we wish we had faith as strong as theirs. But we can also feel irritated. We’d like to try to rattle their childlike faith, to bring them back to the real world with the rest of us. We want to tap them on the shoulder: Hey, there’s more information you haven’t thought about. It’s just so hard to believe anyone could have such absolute confidence in God.

      But that’s exactly what God wants for all of us. He wants to explode our faith into something extraordinary. He wants us to have absolute confidence in him that influences every single facet of our lives.

      And he’s at work to make it happen.

      Common Threads

      So how’s he doing it?

      Over the years, some things have become clear to me and to those who work with me in ministry. As we’ve observed people and listened to literally hundreds of them describe their faith journeys, five things kept popping up in their stories. These five seem to be the things God uses repeatedly to grow people’s faith.

      We’ll take a close look at all five in the weeks to come, but let me briefly introduce you to them.

      First, there’s the kind of practical teaching in which truth from the Bible comes alive with startling relevance to our everyday lives.

      Then providential relationships—God puts people in our paths that shape us and influence us in extraordinary ways.

      Third, when we exercise private disciplines, like prayer, personal time in the Bible, and even generosity, God uses them to deepen our relationship with him.

      Fourth, God provides opportunities for personal ministry where we step outside our comfort zones to serve others—and end up receiving the biggest benefits ourselves.

      And finally, pivotal circumstances—something big happens, usually something unplanned, unexpected, and unwanted, and suddenly our lives and the way we think about God are changed forever.

      Now you won’t find these five things tucked into some list somewhere in the Bible. And there may even be other significant elements besides these five that you would want to include. But in our experience and through observations over many years, these five in particular are ones that God uses consistently to take people’s trust and confidence in him to new levels.

      And since trust is the key to any healthy relationship, the result is that these people experience a new closeness with their Father in heaven. Their faith enters a different dimension—it becomes personal.

      That’s

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