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    If You Want to Walk on Water, You've Got to Get Out of the Boat Bible Study Participant's Guide: A 6-Session Journey on Learning to Trust God
    If You Want to Walk on Water, You've Got to Get Out of the Boat Bible Study Participant's Guide: A 6-Session Journey on Learning to Trust God
    If You Want to Walk on Water, You've Got to Get Out of the Boat Bible Study Participant's Guide: A 6-Session Journey on Learning to Trust God
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    If You Want to Walk on Water, You've Got to Get Out of the Boat Bible Study Participant's Guide: A 6-Session Journey on Learning to Trust God

    By John Ortberg and Stephen and Amanda Sorenson

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    In this six-session study pastor and author John Ortberg teaches people how to trust God more fully. Using testimonial interviews to illustrate his talks, Ortberg teaches participants the skills essential for “water-walking” in faith with God. Designed for use with the video.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherZondervan
    Release dateMay 15, 2013
    ISBN9780310692225
    If You Want to Walk on Water, You've Got to Get Out of the Boat Bible Study Participant's Guide: A 6-Session Journey on Learning to Trust God
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    John Ortberg

    John Ortberg es el pastor principal de la Iglesia Presbiteriana de Menlo Park, en Menlo Park, California, con dependencias en Menlo Park, Mountain View y San Mateo. Ha escrito numerosas obras que han tenido una gran aceptación, como La fe y la duda; El ser que quiero ser; Un amor más allá de la razón; Cuando el juego termina, todo regresa a la caja; La misión fantasma; Dios está más cerca de lo que crees; Todos somos normales hasta que nos conocen; La vida que siempre has querido; Si quieres caminar sobre las aguas, tienes que salir de la barca; Vivamos divinamente la vida, y el plan de estudios multimedia Old Testament Challenge (con la colaboración de Kevin Harney). John y su esposa Nancy tienen tres hijos.

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      If You Want to Walk on Water, You've Got to Get Out of the Boat Bible Study Participant's Guide - John Ortberg

      SESSION ONE

      What’s Water-Walking?

      There is something – Someone-inside us who tells us there is more to life than sitting in the boat. You were made for something more…. There is something inside you that wants to walk on the water – to leave the comfort of routine existence and abandon yourself to the high adventure of following God.

      –John Ortberg

      QUESTIONS TO THINK ABOUT

      1. What kinds of things do you trust in, especially when life gets stormy, that help you feel comfortable and secure rather than fearful? Be honest!

      [Your Response]

      2. Explain why you do or do not believe that God calls everyone who follows him to step out in faith and do something extraordinary. What does stepping out in faith look like?

      [Your Response]

      3. How would you define failure?

      [Your Response]

      4. Thus far in life, what has been your experience with failure? What has failure kept you from doing? What has failure done for you?

      [Your Response]

      VIDEO OBSERVATIONS

      Images of a balloon ride

      [Your Notes]

      Following Jesus: choosing between comfort and growth

      [Your Notes]

      Did Peter fail – or succeed?

      [Your Notes]

      Discovering the power of Jesus

      [Your Notes]

      VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS

      1. When John Ortberg and his wife took their hot-air balloon ride, the competence of their pilot became very important to them. Why is it so important for us to know the competence and trustworthiness of whoever pilots our lives?

      [Your Response]

      2. Jesus invited Peter to step out of the boat and walk with him – to do something Peter could not do on his own – and Peter couldn’t resist the opportunity. Jesus is still looking for people who love and trust him enough to step out of the boat. What do you find intriguing about stepping out of the boat?

      [Your Response]

      3. What are your thoughts on John Ortberg’s comments about failure, particularly that failure has more to do with the way we view the outcome of an event than what actually happened?

      [Your Response]

      LARGE GROUP EXPLORATION

      An Adventure in the Dark

      Let’s take a closer look at what happened when Jesus revealed himself to his disciples as they sailed across the stormy Sea of Galilee, because that event matters a great deal to us today. We too have the opportunity to walk with Jesus in places we wouldn’t dream of going on our own. Like each of the disciples, we must choose how we will respond to God. Will we sit in the boat, like the eleven disciples? Or will we, like Peter, leave the security of the boat and give God the opportunity to use us in extraordinary ways?

      1. When Jesus told the disciples to sail to the other side of the Sea of Galilee without him, they obeyed. But what happened as they sailed? (See Matthew 14:22 – 26; Mark 6:45 – 50.)

      [Your Response]

      2. What did Jesus say to them, and why is this significant today? (See Matthew 14:27.)

      [Your Response]

      3. From Peter’s perspective, recap what happened after Jesus told the disciples who he was. What is significant about Peter’s response to Jesus? (See Matthew 14:28 – 32.)

      [Your Response]

      4. What impact did this event have on the disciples? (See Matthew 14:33; Mark 6:51.)

      [Your Response]

      5. What impact do you think this event had on Peter?

      [Your Response]

      Who Deserves the Credit?

      It’s not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena … who, at best, knows in the end the triumph of great achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly. So that his place will never be with those cold timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

      —Theodore Roosevelt

      Highlights from the History of Water-Walking

      For a very

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