FINAL EXAM Flashcards
Hospital Visitation Suggestions
- Teach people to notify church/pastor
- Get to know hospital protocol
- Have a bible passage ready
- Always pray
- Be attentive, thoughtful
- Bring bulletin, tape, tract
- Show interest in other patients
- Small church: make visits frequently during the day
- Large church: don’t undermine other’s responsibilities
- Prepare list for Sunday, prayer ministry team
- Bring other caregivers with you
Is there a place for performance?
Performance: to do something complicated or difficult in public with skill with a view to serving people and ministering to the Lord
Self Righteous: human effort, anxious, seeks crowds, craves applause, wants results, expects pay, chooses audience, needs feeling, must perform, exposes faults, fractures community
True service: divine motivation, depends on God, welcomes small groups, do things well for the glory of God, leaves with God, loves serving, serves whoever, serves need, willing to wait, covers frailties, builds community
Basic forms of the Corporate Worship Service
- 1 Cor 14:26 is the closest we get to a NT order of service
- Needs to be opportunity for both revelation from God and response to Him
- Liturgical
- Thematic
- Free-flowing praise model (Wimber 5 phase model, Judson Cornwall; Journey into Holy of Holies)
Liturgical Worship
- Based on lectionary, Isaiah 6
- The Preparation (opening hymn, call to worship, invocation, confession of sin, words of forgiveness
- The readings (OT, Epistle, Gospel, Homily, Response, offering, creed, prayer)
- The Lord’s Supper
- Benediction
Thematic Service
- Favoured by Evangelicals
- The sermon drives the service
- Hymns and choruses, testimonies, specials, etc.
- Sometimes suffers from lack of planning, little prayer preparation, limited scripture, limited opportunity for response, too much emphasis on sermon, can seem programmed, stale
Wimber 5 phase model
- Invitation Phase (upbeat call to worship songs)
- Engagement Phase (God-directed hymns, choruses)
- Exaltation Phase (standing up for high praise sung with power and emotion)
- Adoration Phase (simple repeated lines of worship)
- Intimacy Phase (quiet, intensity, personal, closeout break before message)
Judson Cornwall - Journey into the Holy of Holies
- Songs of personal testimony (Gospel songs)
- Through His gates with thanksgiving
- Into His courts with praise
- Solemn worship in the Holy place
- Intimacy with the Holy of Holies (rounding off with celebratory hymn to change order, prepare for preaching)
Ministering to the sick
Create an environment of faith.
• Recognize gifts of faith and healing in the church.
• Teach people to follow James 5:7.
• Use services when elders present for anointing.
• When serious illness diagnosed (accidents), be there for people.
• With chronic illness, be ready to discuss the hard questions.
• Use resources.
• When illness comes to your family, model what you believe.
Planning for corporate worship
- Keep the 3 dynamics in mind
- Blend the best of the above models
- Develop a planning team
- Develop close loyal relationships with musicians
- Clearly define responsibilities
- Draw in all generations, men
- Worship preparation vs. choir practice
- Pray, depend on God
- Plan for creative scripture reading
- Don’t interrupt the flow
- Think through the offering, altar time
- Plan pastoral prayer time
- Make preaching part of the whole
Leading Corporate Worship
- Worshipping pastors develop a worshipping people
- The more people are involved in the service, more anointing
- People who are growing, serving, evangelizing, worship
- Pray and think through the order of service
- Leading the people into God’s presence is most important
- “Nest” new hymns and choruses
- Eliminate unnecessary words
- Be passionate, expectant
- Greet people as they come
Counseling suggestions: THE ENCOUNTER Stage (Boundary Setting)
• Counselling will be explicitly Christian, spiritually focused,
holistic, limited to 5 sessions.
• Sometimes first meeting can be at the altar following the service.
Communion Services
Theology - Memorial, Confession, Celebration Bible Texts - 1 Cor 11, Gospels, Is 53, Ps 22 Suggestions -Don't be restricted to monthly -Focus on the children -Provide fresh windows of the cross -don't rush the service -Get the traditions and logistics right -Arrange appropriate music -Include opportunity for salvation -Include prayer for healing, needs -Provide for shut ins
Difference between Ordinance and Sacrament
Ordinance - a sacred rite that uses symbols to represent holy things
Sacrament - A sacred rite where God’s grace is transferred through natural and human elements
Baby Dedications
Theology - worship, dedication, commitment
Texts - Samuel, Jesus & the children, Ps 127-128, Heb 11:23, Eph 6:1-2
Suggestions
- Make as personal as possible
-Opportunity for visit, teaching
-Consider the meaning of names
-father to offer prayer
-be sensitive to single parents
-think through transitions
-make moment tender, fresh, short, meaningful
Water Baptism
Theology - ordinance, confession, initiation Texts - Matt 3:13-17, 28:16-20, Rom 6:1-4, Acts 2:38-40, 8:26-40 Suggestions - Preach, teach and encourage it • Have baptismal services often • Special invitations for candidates • Pre-service preparation • Consider mentor/candidate testimony • Foster celebrate atmosphere • Let others do baptizing • Ensure modesty, appropriateness • Have picture taken • Official record and certificate
Crisis Counseling
- Whenever you become aware of a physical, sexual abuse, incest, obey the law
- Keep a list of community services and referrals
- Establish a benevolence system
- Be aware of manic/depressive mood disorders
- Recognize you limits, sometimes say “no”
- Finds a professional counsellor, lawyer, psychiatrist who will work with you
- Expect irrational behaviour occasionally. Take threats seriously
- Encourage the church to provide insurance.
Deliverance Ministry (main list)
- Know your theology
- Understand your position in Christ
- Trust God for discernment. Check for medical, emotional problems
- Involve your intercessors
- Include mature partners
- Follow up
- As much as possible, minister privately
- Beware of people who give undue prominence to deliverance
- Neil Anderson’s freedom in Christ material is helpful
Communion Services
Theology - Memorial, Confession, Celebration Bible Texts - 1 Cor 11, Gospels, Is 53, Ps 22 Suggestions -Don't be restricted to monthly -Focus on the children -Provide fresh windows of the cross -don't rush the service -Get the traditions and logistics right -Arrange appropriate music -Include opportunity for salvation -Include prayer for healing, needs -Provide for shut ins
Deliverance ministry - Know your theology
- Luke 11:24-26
Demons can exist outside and inside humans
They are able to travel
They are able to communicate
Each one has separate identity
They are able to remember and make plans
They are able to evaluate and make decisions
They are able to combine forces
They vary in degrees of wickedness
“Christians cannot be demon possessed. They can be influenced, wearied, enticed, afflicted physically and emotionally by demons. They can ‘give the devil a foothold’ (Eph. 5:27) and ‘fall into the devil’s trap’ (I Tim. 3:7). They don’t need deliverance from bondages and strongholds in their lives.”
Difference between Ordinance and Sacrament
Ordinance - a sacred rite that uses symbols to represent holy things
Sacrament - A sacred rite where God’s grace is transferred through natural and human elements
Baby Dedications
Theology - worship, dedication, commitment
Texts - Samuel, Jesus & the children, Ps 127-128, Heb 11:23, Eph 6:1-2
Suggestions
- Make as personal as possible
-Opportunity for visit, teaching
-Consider the meaning of names
-father to offer prayer
-be sensitive to single parents
-think through transitions
-make moment tender, fresh, short, meaningful
