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2. Our Mission To transform religious and irreligious people into Fully Devoted Followers of Christ. Discipleship * Fellowship * Mission Roots Commitments and Love To transform religious and irreligious people into Fully Devoted Followers of Christ. Discipleship * Fellowship * Mission Roots Commitments and Love

3. Read the Bible Your Word is a lamp to guide my feet, and a light for my path. Psalm 119:105 This is a Conversation. My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. John 10:27 Your Word is a lamp to guide my feet, and a light for my path. Psalm 119:105 This is a Conversation. My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. John 10:27

4. Key Questions When to read? –YouVersion.com; Biblegateway.org How? Read, Reflect, Respond. How often? Where to start? OBSTACLES – guilt, bad time, schedule changed, priorities When to read? –YouVersion.com; Biblegateway.org How? Read, Reflect, Respond. How often? Where to start? OBSTACLES – guilt, bad time, schedule changed, priorities

5. Go Deeper Help me understand the meaning of your commandments, and I will meditate on your wonderful deeds. Psalm 119:27 But when the Father sends the Advocate as my representative—that is, the Holy Spirit—he will teach you everything and will remind you of everything I have told you. John 14:26 Bible’s word = “meditate” Help me understand the meaning of your commandments, and I will meditate on your wonderful deeds. Psalm 119:27 But when the Father sends the Advocate as my representative—that is, the Holy Spirit—he will teach you everything and will remind you of everything I have told you. John 14:26 Bible’s word = “meditate”

6. Study the Bible Read – Reflect – Respond STOP – names, places, words, etc. New Bible Dictionary Biblegateway.org, biblestudytools.com Study Bibles Commentaries – Expositors Abridged (Zondervan), Bible Background Commentary (IVP) Read – Reflect – Respond STOP – names, places, words, etc. New Bible Dictionary Biblegateway.org, biblestudytools.com Study Bibles Commentaries – Expositors Abridged (Zondervan), Bible Background Commentary (IVP)

7. Pray the Bible Lectio Divina Slow down, reflect Help me understand the meaning of your commandments, and I will meditate on your wonderful deeds. Psalm 119:27 Lectio Divina Slow down, reflect Help me understand the meaning of your commandments, and I will meditate on your wonderful deeds. Psalm 119:27

8. I have never know someone leading a spiritually transformed life who had not been deeply saturated in Scripture. John Ortberg The Life You’ve Always Wanted, p.181 I have never know someone leading a spiritually transformed life who had not been deeply saturated in Scripture. John Ortberg The Life You’ve Always Wanted, p.181

9. Walk with Jesus Matthew 7:24-27 Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. Seek his will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take. Proverbs 3:5-6 Matthew 7:24-27 Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. Seek his will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take. Proverbs 3:5-6

10. God did not give the Bible so we could master him or it; God gave the Bible so we could live it, so we could be mastered by it. Scot McKnight The Blue Parakeet, p.52 God did not give the Bible so we could master him or it; God gave the Bible so we could live it, so we could be mastered by it. Scot McKnight The Blue Parakeet, p.52

11. The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly. Søren Kierkegaard in Dave Gibbons, The Monkey and the Fish, p.69 The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly. Søren Kierkegaard in Dave Gibbons, The Monkey and the Fish, p.69

12. Every Christian who takes the Bible seriously should hate poverty and want the innocent protected from the violent and the oppressive. Carl Trueman “Uneasy Consciences and Critical Minds”, Themelios 30/2 Every Christian who takes the Bible seriously should hate poverty and want the innocent protected from the violent and the oppressive. Carl Trueman “Uneasy Consciences and Critical Minds”, Themelios 30/2

13. Roots This is a ROOT The fruit: Love, Joy, Peace This is a ROOT The fruit: Love, Joy, Peace

14. I take you to be mine, and I promise to be faithful to you To have and to hold from this day forward For better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish And even death will never part us. I take you to be mine, and I promise to be faithful to you To have and to hold from this day forward For better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish And even death will never part us.