Church Life " Mission Adventures"

Church Life                                      “Mission Adventures”                          Acts 20:1-16 Maturing Disciples (vv. 1-5)                     A Barnabas Encourager: 1) Provide materially – meet  needs. 2) Drop a line – send notes of encouragement (email, DMs, text). 3) Reach out and touch – give an appropriate touch ( a pat, hug, etc.) 4) Listen up – listen actively. 5) Empathize – comfort others in their pain. 6) Give of your time – give your undivided attention.   Rescuing Disciples (vv. 6-12) 2 Cor. 7:5-7 5 For even when we came into Macedonia, our bodies had no rest, but we were afflicted at every turn—fighting without and fear within. 6 But God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the coming of Titus, 7 and not only by his coming but also by the comfort with which he was comforted by you, as he told us of your longing, your mourning, your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced still more.  Multiplying Disciples (vv. 13-16)2 Tim. 4:1a-2-5  I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: 2 preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. 3 For the time is coming when people will not endure sound[a] teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, 4 and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. 5 But as for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.