OneLife Church
Your Calling: Part 5 - Finding My Calling
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North Campus
3503 W Emory Rd, Powell, TN 37849, USA
Sunday 9:00 AM
Sunday 10:45 AM
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The Bible teaches us to give the first 10% of our income to the "storehouse." God says we can test Him by doing this and watching Him take care of us in return. This may sound like a stretch to you! Just take a step toward toward that goal. If you currently give nothing, start giving something. If you give something, try increasing it a step toward the 10% goal. Trust God! Give Him your first before anything else by setting up a recurring, automated donation online. You will then receive quarterly updates about how your giving is making a difference and how your donations are being used.
http://www.onelifeknox.com/giveBottom Line: Discovering my passion will lead to finding my calling.
Step One: See the need.
Step Two: Feel compassion.
Step Three: Do what I can do about it.
START TALKING:
What is an invention or service that you use everyday because someone saw a need and did what they could do about it?
What is an invention or service that you use everyday because someone saw a need and did what they could do about it?
START THINKING:
Read Luke 10:30-34. Why do you think Jesus chose to show two different types of religious people compared to a nonreligious person in the way they responded to a need?
How do you think this story could be retold if it was based in Knoxville in 2025?
Read Genesis 16:13. How does the story of the Good Samaritan line up with Hagar’s experience of God - El Roi - the God who sees?
Read Luke 10:30-34. Why do you think Jesus chose to show two different types of religious people compared to a nonreligious person in the way they responded to a need?
How do you think this story could be retold if it was based in Knoxville in 2025?
Read Genesis 16:13. How does the story of the Good Samaritan line up with Hagar’s experience of God - El Roi - the God who sees?
START SHARING:
When has someone seen a need in your life or a need that impacted your life, and because they fulfilled their calling that need was met?
What needs are all around you every day that you may be missing? What keeps you from seeing those needs?
When have you experienced meeting a need that became a passion of yours?
Go around the microchurch and each person answer: What is a need that you have seen and thought “I wish someone would do something about that”? What might the Holy Spirit be telling you by making that need known to you?
Now, each person answer this: thinking about the need you identified in the previous question, what are resources or skills that you have or know about that could meet that need?
How have we all experienced this and received the benefits of a calling being answered through the Gospel? What need did Jesus see that he had compassion for and how did he and does he meet that need?
When has someone seen a need in your life or a need that impacted your life, and because they fulfilled their calling that need was met?
What needs are all around you every day that you may be missing? What keeps you from seeing those needs?
When have you experienced meeting a need that became a passion of yours?
Go around the microchurch and each person answer: What is a need that you have seen and thought “I wish someone would do something about that”? What might the Holy Spirit be telling you by making that need known to you?
Now, each person answer this: thinking about the need you identified in the previous question, what are resources or skills that you have or know about that could meet that need?
How have we all experienced this and received the benefits of a calling being answered through the Gospel? What need did Jesus see that he had compassion for and how did he and does he meet that need?
START DOING
What will you do this week to intentionally see the needs around you where you live, work, and play?
When you see a need, what will you do about it? How can our microchurch encourage each other and hold each other accountable to be looking for and seeing needs?
Make a list of all the needs each person shared. Now add to that list by sharing other needs that come to mind as a group in your community. Is there a specific need or two that seems especially obvious to the microchurch? Is there one that seems to stir up the most passion and compassion? Is there one that the resources, skills, talents, and interests of the group are able to do something about to meet that need? This might just be your microchurch's calling and mission! Discuss how this will open up opportunities to lead people closer to Jesus.
What will you do this week to intentionally see the needs around you where you live, work, and play?
When you see a need, what will you do about it? How can our microchurch encourage each other and hold each other accountable to be looking for and seeing needs?
Make a list of all the needs each person shared. Now add to that list by sharing other needs that come to mind as a group in your community. Is there a specific need or two that seems especially obvious to the microchurch? Is there one that seems to stir up the most passion and compassion? Is there one that the resources, skills, talents, and interests of the group are able to do something about to meet that need? This might just be your microchurch's calling and mission! Discuss how this will open up opportunities to lead people closer to Jesus.
START PRAYING:
Pray for each other in the microchurch to see as Jesus sees and to discover a personal calling and mission. Pray that our microchurch will see the needs around us in our specific communities and circles of influence and that our hearts will break with what breaks God's heart. Pray that we won't stop there but will be willing to sacrifice, risk, and do something about those needs! And finally, pray that as we identify our calling and live it out, that the glory and honor will not be for us but will point people straight to Jesus!
Pray for each other in the microchurch to see as Jesus sees and to discover a personal calling and mission. Pray that our microchurch will see the needs around us in our specific communities and circles of influence and that our hearts will break with what breaks God's heart. Pray that we won't stop there but will be willing to sacrifice, risk, and do something about those needs! And finally, pray that as we identify our calling and live it out, that the glory and honor will not be for us but will point people straight to Jesus!
Take a Next Step!
Don't just attend church for an hour a week. Take a step! What step should you take?
1. Follow Jesus! If you have followed Jesus...
2. Get baptized! If you are following Jesus, then that's all you need to be "ready" to take this step.
3. Volunteer! Don't simply be a consumer, but be part of making a difference in the lives of those who come to OneLife to experience Jesus. There are weekday and Sunday opportunities. Get info about what opportunities there are for you!
4. Join a micro church! You can't have true community sitting in rows with a large crowd. That's not the church - it's an event! Micro churches are small "churches" of 10-12 adults that meet in homes throughout the week to learn together, pray together, serve the community together, and care for each other together.
Get more information about any of the above, send us your prayer requests so we can pray with you, or ask any question we can help you with by filling out the online connection card!
http://www.onelifeknox.com/connect1. Follow Jesus! If you have followed Jesus...
2. Get baptized! If you are following Jesus, then that's all you need to be "ready" to take this step.
3. Volunteer! Don't simply be a consumer, but be part of making a difference in the lives of those who come to OneLife to experience Jesus. There are weekday and Sunday opportunities. Get info about what opportunities there are for you!
4. Join a micro church! You can't have true community sitting in rows with a large crowd. That's not the church - it's an event! Micro churches are small "churches" of 10-12 adults that meet in homes throughout the week to learn together, pray together, serve the community together, and care for each other together.
Get more information about any of the above, send us your prayer requests so we can pray with you, or ask any question we can help you with by filling out the online connection card!