Lesson 12_ The Harvest and the Harvesters

The Harvest and the Harvesters

SABBATH AFTERNOON

Read for This Week’s Study: John 1:40-46, 4:28-30, Luke 24:4-53, Acts 1:6-8, Matt. 9:36-38, Luke 15.

Memory Text: Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples. (John 15:8)

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The verses

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Let's have bible studies in our homes

Starting a small Bible study in your home for friends who want to know more about Christ.

Leading a Sabbath School Annex class discussion on the four pillars of true disciple-making: (1) recognition of our sinful state, (2) genuine heartfelt humility, (3) unreserved spiritual surrender, and (4) the irrepressible urge to share the message of Christ.

Laborers for the Harvest

But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd. Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest (Matt. 9:36-38).

What about your local church? Is it more focused on itself and its own needs or on outreach? How can a focus on outreach help the church? Or, to express it another way, if your church were more focused on witnessing and outreach, might it be less concerned about its own needs? How might outreach itself solve those needs?

Babylon:

Fast food?!!! Fly eggs and maggots in sauces, NO WAY!!! I'd have to know exactly what they put in there and eating out is risky anyway: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/20/fast-food-truths_n_4296243.html

Genetically Modified  Food, not for me either :) http://t.healthyliving.msn.com/nutrition/health-myth-are-gmos-actually-bad-for-you

And the rest of the confusion in the world...

 

The experiential approach to the lesson @ www.cqbiblestudy.org

Testimony Making Disciples—Christ’s Way

Mary Anyango

John 4:1–42

tuesday MARCH 18

“When Jesus sat down to rest at Jacob’s well, He had come from Judea, where His ministry had produced little fruit. He had been rejected by the priests and rabbis, and even the people who professed to be His disciples had failed of perceiving His divine character. He was faint and weary; yet He did not neglect the opportunity of speaking to one woman, though she was a stranger, an alien from Israel, and living in open sin.

“This woman represents the working of a practical faith in Christ.”

“The Savior did not wait for congregations to assemble. Often He began His lessons with only a few gathered about Him, but one by one the passers-by paused to listen until a multitude heard with wonder and awe the words of God through the heaven-sent Teacher. The worker for Christ should not feel that he cannot speak with the same earnestness to a few hearers as to a larger company. There may be only one to hear the message; but who can tell how far-reaching will be its influence? It seemed a small matter, even to His disciples, for the Savior to spend His time upon a woman of Samaria. But He reasoned more earnestly and eloquently with her than with kings, councilors, or high priests. The lessons He gave to that woman have been repeated to the earth’s remotest bounds.

“As soon as she had found the Savior the Samaritan woman brought others to Him. She proved herself a more effective missionary than His own disciples. The disciples saw nothing in Samaria to indicate that it was an encouraging field. Their thoughts were fixed upon a great work to be done in the future. They did not see that right around them was a harvest to be gathered. But through the woman whom they despised, a whole cityful were brought to hear the Savior. She carried the light at once to her countrymen.

“This woman represents the working of a practical faith in Christ. Every true disciple is born into the kingdom of God as a missionary. He who drinks of the living water becomes a fountain of life. The receiver becomes a giver. The grace of Christ in the soul is like a spring in the desert, welling up to refresh all, and making those who are ready to perish eager to drink the water of life.”*
* Ellen G. White, The Desire of Ages, pp. 194, 195.

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The lesson presented by Pastor Doug Batchelor of www.amazingfats.org

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The lesson present by Dr Derek Norris of www.hopetv.org

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