Church of The Open Door

Church of The Open Door

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  • Growing in Spirit-led Serving – Week Six
    What’s Your Next Step?
    “Growing in Spirit-led Serving”
    Mark 10:45; Romans 7:6; Galatians 5:13-25
    One of the indications that a person is full of and led by the Holy Spirit is how they serve others.
    As we grow in becoming a Spirit-led Servant we will progress through the stages of growth:
    Beginning in Christ as a Spirit-led Servant
    Unfamiliar with the Holy Spirit
    Unaware of SHAPE
    You’ve been “SHAPEd to Serve”
    Young in Christ as a Spirit-led Servant
    Discovering your SHAPE
    Inexperienced with the Holy Spirit
    Serving to grow
    Maturing in Christ as a Spirit-led Servant
    Developing your SHAPE
    Learning to be led by the Holy Spirit
    Serving as a lifestyle
    Reproducing in Christ as a Spirit-led Servant
    Living led by the Holy Spirit
    Maximizing your SHAPE
    Servant leader
    We become more like Jesus as we learn to be led by the Holy Spirit to serve others.
    Core CHRISTlike Characteristic: Spirit-led Servant/Living Surrendered
    42 min
  • Growing in Telling Others about Jesus – Week Five
    What’s Your Next Step?
    “Growing in Telling Others about Jesus”
    2 Cor. 5:17; 1 Thess. 2:8; 1 Peter 3:15
    Beginning in Christ: Experiencing Evangelism
    Celebrating your salvation: Everything is new
    Sharing your story: Spreading the Good News
    Young in Christ: Learning the Gospel
    Understanding the Gospel
    Understanding our Commission
    Maturing in Christ: Sharing the Gospel
    Compelled by love
    Learning to share
    Pushing through fear
    Navigating obstacles
    Reproducing in Christ: Equipping Evangelists
    Modeling a life of evangelism
    Training others in evangelism
    What’s your next step in growing in intentional evangelism?
    Core CHRISTlike Characteristic: Intentional Evangelism/Loving People
    55 min
  • Growing in Love as Disciples of Jesus – Week Four
    What’s Your Next Step?
    “Growing in Love as Disciples of Jesus”
    John 13:34-35; Ephesians 4:16, Philippians 2:3-11
    Our destination (goal) is to love like Christ.
    Our journey (growth) passes through four stages:
    Those who are Beginning in Christ tend to love with Feeling-Based Love
    We are able to grow out of this stage when we start loving as a decision not a feeling.
    Those who are Young in Christ tend to love with Self-Oriented Love
    We are able to move out of this stage when we focus more on what we can give to others than what we get from others.
    Those who are Maturing in Christ love with Other-Minded Love
    Looking out for others’:
    Needs
                Interests
                            Desires
    Concerns
    Those who are Reproducing in Christ love with Sacrificial Love
    Dying to my own selfish desires and needs and pouring into another is the heart of sacrificial love.
    Other-mindedness + sacrificial love = Other-Centered Love/Christlike Love
    Core CHRISTlike Characteristic: Relates with Other-Centered Love/Loving People
    53 min
  • The Heart of Worship – Week Three
    What’s Your Next Step?
    “The Heart of Worship”
    Isaiah 29:13, Psalm 100:4
    What is worship?
    Worship is about drawing near to God.
    Worship is about our hearts engaging with God.
    Worship is our loving response to God for who He is and what He’s done.
    Biblical worship is a pattern and a pathway for how we can take steps in worship:
    Temple Gates: Distant Observing
    Outer Courts: Developing Engagement
    Inner Courts: Devoted Surrender
    Most Holy Place: Deep Communion
    Deeply communing with God is the heart of worship, where we draw near to God and connect heart to heart with Him.
    What’s your next step in worship?
     
     
     
    Core CHRISTlike Characteristic: Heart of Worship/Loving God
    51 min
  • A Vision for Spiritual Growth – Week Two
    What’s Your Next Step?
    “A Vision for Spiritual Growth”
    John 15:1-8
    Jesus casts a vision for a life of spiritual growth.
    He is the Vine. The Vine is the source of spiritual growth.
    The Father is the Gardener. He’s actively working to help us bear fruit.
    We are the branches.
    We are made to bear fruit.
    Fruit is Christlikeness. (Fruit of the Spirit)
    Fruit is making disciples.
    Jesus casts a vision for the essential step of spiritual growth.
    You will only grow and bear fruit as you remain in Christ.
    ‘Remain’ means ‘stay connected’ to the Vine.
    We stay connected through the Word and Prayer.
    What’s your next step in ‘staying connected’?
    Next Step Survey
    Action Plan for your stage
    Jesus casts a vision for four stages of fruitfulness.
    No fruit (could be compared to: Beginning in Christ)
    Some fruit (could be compared to: Young in Christ)
    More fruit (could be compared to: Maturing in Christ)
    Much fruit (could be compared to: Reproducing in Christ)
    Jesus casts a vision for the goal of bearing much fruit.
    God is working in your life to help you flourish. (He’s the Gardener!)
    God is committed to do whatever it takes to produce the fruit of spiritual growth in your life. (lifting, pruning, etc.)
    What’s your next step in “staying connected”?
    Core CHRISTlike Characteristic: Connected to God through the Word and Prayer
    50 min
  • Taking your Next Step in the Journey of Discipleship – Week One
    What’s Your Next Step?
    “Taking your Next Step in the Journey of Discipleship”
    Luke 6:12-16
    Every journey begins with one step, but no journey is complete in one step.
    Everyone has a next step.
    Why Jesus called his disciples into a group as their next step:
    Groups are the best place to make disciples.
    Follow
    Learn              
    Become  
    Groups are the best place to help us grow in Christ.
    Beginning in Christ
    Young in Christ
    Maturing in Christ
    Reproducing in Christ
    Groups are the best place to support us as we grow.
    Test and confirm what I am learning.
    Receive encouragement in taking my next step.
    Learn to put the Bible into practice in my daily life.
    Learn to give and receive love.
    Groups are the best place to help us grow with others.
    How we are different from each other.
    Different Backgrounds
    Different Temperaments
    Different Perspectives
    Different Opinions
    We harmonize what’s different when we emphasize what’s the same.
    How we are the same as each other.
    Same Call: Come to Christ
    Same Vision: Become Like Christ
    Same Lord: Jesus Christ is Lord
    Same Purpose: Be With/Be Sent by Christ
    Core CHRISTlike Characteristic: Intentional Evangelism/Loving People
    48 min
  • How’s your heart? – Week Five
    Soundtracks
    “How’s your heart?”
    Luke 6:6-11
    Symptoms of a Shriveled Heart
    Ignoring hurting people
    Lack of compassion
    Looking to accuse
    Judgmental mindset
    Negative talk about others
    Picture of a Compassionate Heart
    Looking to help
    Courageous
    Willing to provoke
    Acting to restore and heal
    Traits of a Trusting Heart
    Obedient
    Expectant
    Surrendered
    How’s your heart?
    Is it shriveled and stubborn?
    Is it compassionate and responsive?
    Is it trusting and surrendered?
    LifeGroup Questions: Applying the Teaching to Our Lives
    What would you say is your typical mindset when you come to church? What are you thinking or expecting?
    Do you notice any of the “symptoms of a shriveled heart” in your life? Which ones?
    What do you think about Jesus’ deliberate provoking behavior in this story?
    When is it right for us to provoke another like that?
    Read Mark’s version of this story in Mark 3:1-6. Notice the similarities and the differences to Luke’s version.  Then discuss Mark 3:5. What do you think about Jesus getting angry?
    How did you answer the closing question of the sermon: “how’s your heart?”
    Shriveled
    Compassionate
    Surrendered
    other
    Pray Psalm 139:23,24 and ask God to show you if you have symptoms of a “shriveled heart.”
     
    Core CHRISTlike Characteristic: Relates with Other-Centered Love/Loving People
    57 min
  • What do you think about CHANGE? – Week Three
    Soundtracks
    “What do you think about CHANGE?”
    Luke 5:33-39
    When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
    We must change our minds from “I want this” to “I AM this.”
    We can’t think ourselves into a new way of living. We must live ourselves into a new way of thinking.
    What you surrender to today, will define who you are tomorrow.
    Transformed people, transform people.
    LifeGroup Questions: Applying the Teaching to Our Life
    What are your initial thoughts? What did God say to you personally from His word?
    Are you in a season of fasting or feasting? How are you letting Jesus determine this season?
    What are some ways you have tried to “patch” Jesus into your life? What is something holding you back from fully surrendering to Him?
    How has following Jesus changed you? What is something you initially doubted/struggled with that has now brought new life to you?
    Who is someone you have struggled to invite to the table? What is God asking you to do today or even right now to follow Jesus example?
    What is your next step as a follower of Jesus? *LEADERS-encourage your group to fill out the next step survey located at opendoor.tv/nextsteps/
    Core CHRISTlike Characteristics: Connected to God Through the Word and Prayer and Spirit led Servant.
    49 min

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Each weekend at Church of the Open Door a message is given based on the Word of God. Daniel Fagbuyi, Lead Pastor, and other members of the staff equip the large congregation located in Northeast Ohio…

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