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Ezra/Nehemiah Week 5 - The Temple's Foundation Laid
The books of Ezra and Nehemiah tell the story of God’s people coming back, turning again to try and experience the life and relationship that He created them for.
Locations & Times
The Avenue Church
3030 Thatcher Ave, Pueblo, CO 81005, USA
Sunday 9:00 AM
Sunday 10:30 AM
1. The Foundation of the Temple is Laid (6-9)
A. Finding the Workers
B. Financing the Operation
C. Organizing the Leadership
2. The Dedication of the Foundation and the People’s Response
(10- 11)
(10- 11)
3. The Varied Responses (12-13)
Temple Baptist Church , October 30, 1966-high attendance of 869 people
Discussion Questions - Re-read our main passage from this week (Ezra 3:6-13) and then with your Growth Group, family, friends, etc. thoughtfully answer the following:
1. Do you think about yourself as a servant or a leader, or is there a difference?
2. How have you seen God raise up workers for a specific need? Have you ever felt this leading?
3. How have you been challenged to grow as a Christian leader?
4. When you consider that God’s people have been singing responsive praise for millennia, how does that make you feel connected through worship?
5. What’s one thing you long for to go back to the “good old days?
6. What is something that is small now, but that God may do something big with?
7. What specific Next Step do you want to take from this message?
1. Do you think about yourself as a servant or a leader, or is there a difference?
2. How have you seen God raise up workers for a specific need? Have you ever felt this leading?
3. How have you been challenged to grow as a Christian leader?
4. When you consider that God’s people have been singing responsive praise for millennia, how does that make you feel connected through worship?
5. What’s one thing you long for to go back to the “good old days?
6. What is something that is small now, but that God may do something big with?
7. What specific Next Step do you want to take from this message?
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Ezra/Nehemiah Week 5 - The Temple's Foundation Laid