Improving Your Serve : Lesson Plan

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Lesson Title Scripture
1 Who Me A Servant? You Gotta Be Kidding Selected Scripture
2 A Case for Unselfishness Gen 3:6-13; Mk 10:42-45
3 The Servant As A Giver - P1 2 Cor 8:1-5
4 The Servant As A Giver - P2 2 Cor 8:7-12; 9:6-8
5 The Servant As A Forgiver - P1 2 Cor 2:4-11; Matt 5:23-24
6 The Servant As A Forgiver - P2 Matt 18:21-35
7 The Servant As A Forgetter Phil 3:7-14
8 Thinking Like A Servant Thinks 2 Cor 10:1-12
9 Portrait of a Servant P1 Matt 5:1-12
10 Portrait of a Servant P2 Matt 5:1-12
11 The Influence Of A Servant Matt 5:13-16
12 The Perils Of A Servant 2 Kings 4 - 5
13 The Obedience Of A Servant John 13:12-17
14 Obedience Personified Gen 22:1-19
15 The Consequences of Serving 2 Cor 4:8-9; 11:22-28
16 The Reward of Serving Selected Scripture

 

Lesson content is as follows:

  • Lesson 1-3 - Introduce the concept of a servant.
  • Lesson 4-8 - Identify three roles of a servant (giver, forgiver, and forgetter)
  • Lesson 9 - Examines the mind of a servant out to pursue.
  • Lesson 10-11 - Shows the picture of a servant from Matthew 5:1-12
  • Lesson 12 - Discusses the influence a servant exerts.
  • Lesson 13 - Teaches the perils and pitfalls a servant faces, illustrated by Gehazi's negative example (2 Kings: 4-5)
  • Lesson 14-15 - Reveals the obedience a servant must pursue, exemplified by Abraham (Genesis 22: 1-19)
  • Lesson 16 - Coverts the consequences of suffering and persecution a servant will face.
  • Lesson 17 - Looks ahead to the heavenly rewards awaiting the faithful servant.

 

Each chapter’s teaching is on an appropriate passage of Scripture and is followed by questions and comments designed to promote further reflection and application.

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