AMPLIFY GUIDE
What is it?
It's a collection of discussions and practices that will help you apply what we talked about on Sunday.
Our Goal
We want to help
- 1) amplify the impact of Biblical teaching in your life and
- 2) amplify the impact of your life in this community.
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Sunday Discussion
Daily Discussion
Weekly Discussion
Inwardly-focused Spiritual Practice
Outwardly-focused Spiritual Practice
Sunday Discussion
This is designed to be an extension of our Sunday worship service. Take a few minutes to have this conversation with those who watched the worship service with you. If you watched alone, give another friend who watched alone a call and have the conversation over the phone.
- Share something that was said or sung in the worship service that resonated with you.
- Take a moment to pray with and for the person with whom you just shared.
Daily Discussion
These are intended for conversation around the dinner table, in the car, or before bed at night (ideal for ages 7 and up). Start each conversation by reading the passage listed.
Monday: Read Revelation 4:3-4. If there is a heavenly throne and Jesus sits on it, what does that suggest about each of us? What do the twenty four elders represent?
Tuesday: Read Revelation 4:5-6. Does this strike you as welcoming or intimidating? What do you make of that? What do the seven lamps and the sea of glass represent?
Wednesday: Read Revelation 4:6-8. What do the four living creatures represent? Day and night they never stop proclaiming God’s praise. What could we conclude from that?
Thursday: Read Revelation 4:9-10. The twenty four elders follow after the four living creatures in unceasing praise. If God sits enthroned in the center of reality rightly receiving unceasing praise, what does that suggest about my life this week?
Friday: Read Revelation 4:10-11. In what ways should you lay your crown at Jesus feet this week?
You can also use the above readings and questions as a personal, daily devotion and journaling prompt.
Weekly Discussion
Use these questions in discussion with spiritual friends. Spiritual friends are those who intentionally move into one another’s life to spur one another on in spiritual growth for the Glory of God.
1. How has God encouraged, challenged or corrected you recently?
2. What’s a way that you believe God has used you recently or wants to use you this week?
Inwardly-focused Spiritual Practice
Daily spiritual discipline – Spend some time meditating on Revelation 4:3-10 as well as the other passages listed below. Picture this throne room. Picture a God who deserves this kind of unceasing praise. Consider the heart posture of those who are praising Him. Consider the consequences of those who have opposed Him. Consider your response to this Holy God throughout the past week
Other passages that David mentioned:
Exodus 24:9-10
Psalm 99:1-5
Isaiah 6:1-8
Ezekiel 1:22-28 (also 10:1,4)
Daniel 7:9-14
Outwardly-focused Spiritual Practice
Seek to love those God places in your path. Be intentional to share Jesus’s love with them through word and deed.
- Find a way to serve someone this week.
- Go out of your way to show love to a person in need.
- Step into one of our Shalom for the City initiatives and share Jesus with our local community.
- Get on our weekly prayer email (sign up here) and start lifting these prayers and praises up to the Lord.