When God's Spirit Moves Bible Study Participant's Guide: Six Sessions on the Life-Changing Power of the Holy Spirit
By Jim Cymbala and Dean Merrill
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About this ebook
In this six-session small group Bible study, pastor and bestselling author Jim Cymbala explores the person and work of the Holy Spirit to bring a fresh sense of God’s power to your church and your life.
What happens when the Holy Spirit moves powerfully within a church? Through this six-session study you will learn how:
- To make room for the Spirit’s action in your life and in your church
- God wants to work through your gifts and talents to enable you to do what only he can do
- To listen for the voice of the Spirit in prayer and how to apply God’s Word to your life
- The Spirit can bring healing to your body, your emotions, and your relationships; how a life lived in the presence of the Spirit can transform the church and the world
Your church can become a place where people regularly experience God’s presence and his power.
Sessions include:
- Agent in the Shadows
- Power Source
- The Best Bible Teacher
- Water, Wind, and Fire
- Who’s in Control?
- Help When We Need it Most
Designed for use with the When God’s Spirit Moves DVD 9780310322191 (sold separately). When used together they provide a powerful catalyst for spiritual growth.
Jim Cymbala
Jim Cymbala ha servido como pastor del Tabernáculo de Brooklyn durante más de veinticinco años. Es autor de muchos títulos éxito de ventas, incluyendo Fuego vivo, Viento fresco: Fe viva y Poder vivo. Reside en la ciudad de New York con Carol, su esposa. Ella dirige el coro del Tabernáculo de Brooklyn ganador del premio Grammy.
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When God's Spirit Moves Bible Study Participant's Guide - Jim Cymbala
When God’s
Spirit Moves
Six Sessions on the Life-Changing Power of the Holy Spirit
PARTICIPANT’S GUIDE
Jim Cymbala
with Dean Merrill
Contents
Cover
Title Page
Ebook Instructions
Session 1—Agent in the Shadows
Session 2—Power Source
Session 3—The Best Bible Teacher
Session 4—Water, Wind, and Fire
Session 5—Who’s in Control?
Session 6—Help When We Need It Most
Appendix—A Long Night in Indianapolis
About the Author
Other Resources by Jim Cymbala
Copyright
About the Publisher
Ebook Instructions
In this ebook edition, please use your device’s note-taking function to record your thoughts wherever you see the bracketed instructions [Your Notes] or [Your Response]. Use your device’s highlighting function to record your response whenever you are asked to checkmark, circle, underline, or otherwise indicate your answer(s).
Session 1
Agent in the Shadows
Jesus: I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever — the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.
(John 14:16 – 17)
Quick Question
If you were teaching a class of seven-year-olds and had to explain the Holy Spirit and what he does, how would you go about it? What words would you use for these children? What examples?
[Your Response]
Video Teaching Segment
Notes
As you watch the session one video, use the following outline to jot down any ideas that stand out to you.
Church life badly needs the Holy Spirit.
[Your Notes]
Jesus was leaving?
[Your Notes]
The Holy Spirit gets inside us.
[Your Notes]
The early apostles and the Holy Spirit
[Your Notes]
Current misgivings about the Holy Spirit
[Your Notes]
What the Spirit does today
[Your Notes]
The Roma Black story
[Your Notes]
The Christian religion is hopeless without the Holy Ghost.
Samuel Chadwick (1860 – 1932), Methodist leader and college president in England
Group Discussion and Bible Study
1. Think of someone in your life who fills the role of agent—your car or home insurance agent, for example. What does this person do? How is that similar to what the Holy Spirit does in relation to the Godhead?
[Your Response]
2. Read John 16:5 – 16 aloud:
But now I am going to him who sent me. None of you asks me, Where are you going?
Rather, you are filled with grief because I have said these things. But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. When he comes, he will prove the world to be in the wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment: about sin, because people do not believe in me; about righteousness, because I am going to the Father, where