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    6 Ways We Encounter God Participant WorkBook: A Six-Week Small Group Experience
    6 Ways We Encounter God Participant WorkBook: A Six-Week Small Group Experience
    6 Ways We Encounter God Participant WorkBook: A Six-Week Small Group Experience
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    6 Ways We Encounter God Participant WorkBook: A Six-Week Small Group Experience

    By Tom Berlin

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    When we live, when we worship, when we pray, do we really encounter God? What are God’s qualities, and what effect do they have on us? In this simple, inspiring book, pastor and author Tom Berlin introduces us to the living God and urges us to respond. Includes Scripture, helpful quotations, and space for journaling.

     

    1. God’s Majesty and My Reverence
    2. God’s Fidelity and My Trust
    3. God’s Purity and My Humility
    4. God’s Authority and My Obedience
    5. God’s Righteousness and My Work for Justice
    6. God’s Graciousness and My Love of Others

     
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAbingdon Press
    Release dateMay 6, 2014
    ISBN9781426794698
    6 Ways We Encounter God Participant WorkBook: A Six-Week Small Group Experience
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    Tom Berlin

    Tom Berlin serves as a Bishop in the Southeastern Jurisdiction of the United Methodist Church. Prior to being elected Bishop, he served as lead pastor of Floris United Methodist Church in suburban Washington, D.C. Tom is a graduate of Virginia Tech and Candler School of Theology at Emory University. He is the author of numerous books, including Reckless Love, Courage, Restored, Defying Gravity, The Generous Church, and the coauthor (with Lovett Weems) of Bearing Fruit, Overflow, and High Yield.

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      6 Ways We Encounter God Participant WorkBook - Tom Berlin

      Week

      One

      God’s Majesty

      and My Reverence

      Day

      1

      Today’s Scripture
      Genesis 1:1–2:3; Psalm 104
      Key Verse

      How many are your works, LORD! In wisdom you made them all; the earth is full of your creatures.

      Psalm 104:24 NIV

      1. Describe a time when the majesty of God’s creation inspired awe and reverence in you.

      2. The author of Psalm 104 writes, I will sing to the LORD all my life; I will sing praise to my God as long as I live. What inspires the psalmist to share such words of praise?

      Going Deeper

      Psalm 104 is a poetic retelling of the Creation story, praising God for the power and creativity displayed in the creation of the world. It is a love song for our Creator, as the author points out all the things he sees in the world and what they mean to him. The psalmist is amazed at the forethought God put into the world. The Creation story isn’t just a list of things God made, it also shows the careful crafting that God put into every aspect of the world, including each and every human.

      The other thing that’s interesting about Psalm 104 is that it changes from past to present tense. The psalmist is reminding us that God didn’t stop creating after that first week. God is still working in the world, caring for its creatures, cultivating its mountains and pastures, and astounding us with its beauty. God still wants us to look at creation, perhaps to see that the beauty we find there is a reflection of the nature of its Creator. We just need to stop and take the time to look.

      Trivia Tidbit

      According to Fausset’s Bible Dictionary, leviathan is a word used to describe both mythological sea dragons representing the chaos of creation (as in Psalm 74:14) and real water creatures like crocodiles (as in Job 41:1).

      Going Deeper Questions

      3. What parts of creation cause you to recognize God’s fingerprints in our world?

      4. When was the last time you took time to praise God for what you see there?

      5. What caused you to do this?

      6. How have you felt God shaping and creating something new in your life?

      Day

      2

      Today’s Scripture
      Exodus 14:1-31; Exodus 15:19-21; Psalm 29
      Key Verse

      And when the Israelites saw the mighty hand of the LORD displayed against the Egyptians, the people feared the LORD and put their trust in him and in Moses his servant.

      Exodus 14:31 NIV

      1. Why do the people doubt God’s provision in the desert?

      2. What does the word fear mean in Exodus 14:31?

      Going Deeper

      There’s a story about a schoolteacher and a young student who were talking about Israel’s escape from Egypt. The teacher said that there are some parts of the Red Sea that are only a foot deep in the dry season, so the fact that Israelites got across it was no great miracle at all. But the child replied, In that case, it’s even more of a miracle, ’cause that means God stopped all of Pharaoh’s army in only a foot of water!

      As modern people, we feel like we need to have all the answers to all the questions. We want to understand how everything works. But God has power over the things that we can’t control and can’t figure out. Our task is to be reverent enough to follow God’s calling and do God’s will. The miracle of parting the waters of the Red Sea was not so miraculous to God.

      Trivia Tidbit

      An Eastern wind is shown throughout the Bible as a hot, strong, withering wind that dries up the Red Sea (Exodus 14:21), brings the plague of locusts to Egypt (Exodus 10:13), and torments Jonah for his ungratefulness (Jonah

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