HINDU: Meeting 3
Study
Read Luke 24:20-31 (Study 2 of 4)
- Read Luke 24:31. Based on the salvation story in this passage, how does a person experience saving faith?
Is it necessary to pray a sinner's prayer, raise a hand, go forward at an altar call, or sign a booklet? Explain. - What other mission principles are displayed in Luke 24:20-31?
Watch
Vision National India (3:30)
- "The threefold approach of Vision Nationals is to provide for orphans, care for widows, and train Indian nationals to plant churches."
What is the value of partnering with this type of ministry?
- What else stood out to you from the video?
Ten Thousand Churches (2:47)
- “We have planted over five hundred churches." But the goal is ten thousand!
Why don't we think in these numbers?
- What else stood out to you from the video?
Master's Village: Hope and a Future for India's Poorest Children (2:12)
- What stood out to you from this video?
Discuss
- One worker serving among orphans said, “Seeing orphaned and abandoned children come alive as a result of being loved is indescribable. Seeing this is what made me say, ‘This is what I want to do with my life.’”
What do you want to do with your Christian life? - “In a consumer society, expectations dare not plateau, because a growing economy depends on rising expectations...the more we let our level of contentment be determined by outside factors—a new car, fashionable clothes, a prestigious career, social status—the more we relinquish control over our own happiness” — Paul Brand, medical missionary to India.
Agree or disagree? Explain.
Learn
Pray
Share the most important thing you learned at this meeting, and let it serve as a guide as your group prays together.