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Using Discovery with Your Congregation

SUsDiscoveryBible reading guide follows a carefully prepared reading schedule that will take people in yourcongregation through representative portions of every Bible book in five years, reading 10-20 verses per day.That means that if your congregation usesDiscoveryover any five year period, theyll cover the entire Bible indepth.

Of course, usingDiscoveryfor a five year cycle has distinct advantages for your congregation, but the readingschedule (and sermon outlines) are set up so that both congregations and individual readers can start (or stop)at any time and use it at any and all times of the year. Readings always take note of major days on the Chris-tian calendar such as Christmas, Easter and Pentecost.

Studies have shown that reading and studying the Bible in a community setting such as a church or small groupgreatly aids and motivates people in establishing a pattern of reading and living by Gods Word. The Discovery

Extra Sermon Outlineswhich follow are part of an integrated package which also includes theDiscoverydaily

readings and commentary and the weekendDiscovery Extra group discussion questions. This package offersa church-wide program in which your people can read the same Bible passages, discuss and share about themin small groups and hear sermons based on these passages, too. Its a great way to get your entire church en-gaged together and growing in Gods Word.

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Using the Discovery Extra Sermon Outlines

The Discovery Extra Sermon Outlines are just thatoutlines. They give you a basic structure on which to buildyour sermon. Theyre developed from carefully chosen passages taken from the prior weeks readings inDiscovery.

The outlines are intentionally brief. Why? Because the most important component is what you add, that is, yourown insights, stories and applications. Thats what will make your sermon come alive for your people. Each ofThe Discovery Extra Sermon Outlines uses the following structure:

Title: The sermon title is meant to indicate the theme of the outline and grab your peoplesattention, too. Of course, you should feel free to establish your own title if you wish.

Text: This is a passage or passages from the prior weeks reading inDiscoverychosen as

the basis for the sermon.

Key Thought: This is a statement for you, the pastor. It summarizes the main idea on which theoutline is built.

Sermon Outline: This is a brief set of key points you can use to create your sermon.

Again, the most important part of the outline is what you will add. Feel free to

customize the outlines by cutting and pasting them into your sermon document.You can do this by using the text tool in Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Challenge: This is a statement intended for your congregation. It attempts to summarize akey application point in a memorable way.

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About TurnText: Acts 26:1b18

Key Thought: Every person who has turned to God has a story of redemption, and those stories aremeant to be a source of light to others.

Sermon Outline: 1. Background.

a. Paul was being held by Festus and awaiting trial before Caesar

b. King Agrippa was a Roman ruler who was sympathetic to Judaism

2. Taking every opportunity.

a. Though standing trial, Pauls focus is the gospel (2,6,8)

b. Paul begins by finding a point of connection with his audience (3)

3. Being real

a. Paul connects with the questions and doubts of others (9)

b. He openly speaks about his own shortcomings (10-11)

4. Good news

a. In Jesus interaction with Paul, the first step is Paul owning his sin (14-15)b. When Paul yields (evidence from him addressing Jesus as Lord), Jesus

speaks destiny and hope (16)

c. Pauls testimony includes the specific elements of the gospel (18)

5. Questions and challenges for us

a. Do you understand your responsibility to share the gospel?

b. Share your story of redemption!

Challenge: Jesus is the only hope to turn people from darkness to light.

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One for AllText: Acts 27:2744

Key Thought: There is a blessing that is only found when we move in unity under Gods direction..


a. Paul had warned them not to sail and they did

b. In spite of not listening to his warning, God spoke to Paul in a dream, sayingthat, for his sake, the ship would be saved

2. Listening for divine directiona. Paul was given directives as he listened to God

b. It required faith on the part of the hearers to follow

c. Because they listened and responded, lives were saved

3. It takes faith

a. Following Gods directives through Paul took faith

b. This passage shows responsiveness and subsequent blessing

4. It required the sailors and soldiers to rely on God and not their own wisdom

a. The sailors were going to try to save themselves

b. The soldiers were going to follow their human wisdom

c. Both choose to follow what God directed


a. Do we expect God to speak into specific situations?

b. Are we willing to do what doesnt make sense to us if we believe its Godsdirective?

Challenge: God is speaking and directing. We need to learn to listen.

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Just Watch OutText: Ezekiel 3:1627

Key Thought: We stand accountable to God to speak all that he has called us to speak.


a. At the time of Ezekiels ministry, many had already been taken into captivity

b. Ezekiel was called to prophesy to a hard hearted nation

2. The accountability of the watchmen

a. God called Ezekiel to speak warning

b. Ezekiel was accountable for his obedience not the response of his hearers

3. The accountability of the hearers

a. If the hearers reject the message, they stand accountable

b. If the hearers turn, they will be blessed

c. But they must hear the message, which is the responsibility of the watchman

4. Perseverance in the messagea. Ezekiel was going to suffer for the message

b. Nonetheless, he was called to persist


a. Do we understand that we will answer if we do not speak the message we havebeen given?

b. Remain faithful regardless of the response

Challenge: We are not to carry how others respond to us, but walk faithful to the God who hascalled us.



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Raising the Dead

Text: Ezekiel 37:114

Key Thought: God is able to bring life where there is death.


a. Israel had suffered siege, capture and exile

b. Jerusalem had been destroyed and the temple leveled

2. Devastation

a. The picture of a valley full of corpses would have been seen as a cursed place

b. Ezekiel and the people would relate to this great destruction

3. Only God

a. Ezekiel is overwhelmed at the great many dead (2)

b. When God asks if there is hope even here, Ezekiel says that God alone knows

4. The Word that brings life

a. God tells Ezekiel to speakb. The God inspired word bring life


a. Do we see the devastation that breaks the heart of God?

b. Be prepared to be the one to hear Gods call and speak the words of life

Challenge: The God who called Jesus from the grave is still speaking life.



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With Unveiled Faces

Text: 2 Corinthians 3:718

Key Thought: There is a glory in the righteousness of the law, but one that we have no hope of attain


a. When Moses came from the mountain where hed received the ten

commandments, his skin was radiating (Ex 34:29)b. The people were afraid and Moses covered his face with a veil

2. The glory of the law

a. Gods righteousness is reflected in the law

b. Yet the law only shows us that we can never hope to stand before God on our m

3. The glory of grace

a. In Christ, the law has been satisfied

i. Jesus fulfilled the whole law

ii. Jesus suffered the just penalty we deserved for breaking the lawb. By faith in Christ, his righteousness is imputed to us (legally credited to us)

4. Only grace transforms

a. Moses reflected the glory for a time, but it faded

b. As we gaze on Christ, we are changed into his likeness


a. We have been called to something glorious. Let us fix our attention on itswonder and so be changed

b. Are we boldly professing the message of hope?

Challenge: As we set our face on the Lord of grace, we will be changed into his likeness.



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Multiply by FaithText: 2 Kings 4:17

Key Thought: When we look to God, he will meet our needs.


a. In the proceeding chapter, Elisha was used to deliver royalty

b. Here Elisha is ministering to the poor, but godly

2. The widows predicament

a. The woman is the widow of a godly man who served under Elisha

b. She is left in poverty and debt, and has no resource to pay

c. She comes to Elisha for help

3. What do you have?

a. Elisha begins by asking her what she has, which is oil

b. Elisha tells her to make preparation to receive Gods provision

4. God works as she cooperates

a. Elisha had told her to collect many bottles and choose how many

b. She followed Gods directive, through Elisha, and a miracle happened


a. Do we expect God to intervene or do we work things out on our own?

b. When we look to God, we have a part to play in actively moving on our faiththrough obedience

Challenge: God works as we step out in obedient faith.



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A Godless PeopleText: 2 Kings 17:2441

Key Thought: The god of the age encourages compromise and polluted worship.


a. Israel was taken captive by Assyria

b. Years later, Judah would also be led into captivity by Babylon

2. Disperseda. The Israelites were taken out of their land

b. They were intermingled with the peoples

3. Diluted worship

a. God was not completely dismissed, but sought to be used

b. Worship of God was intermingled with worship of idols

4. Form not devotion

a. The people went through the motions of worship

b. They had not yielded their hearts to the King


a. Are we intermingling our worship of God with the ways of the culture?

b. Is our worship a full yielding of ourselves or the motions of religious exercise?

Challenge: There is only one way to worship God; his way not ours.



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A Beautiful Confidence

Text: 2 Kings 19:119

Key Thought: When things are at their worst, we have a God on whom to call.


a. Assyria had taken Israel into captivity

b. Now Assyria was threatening Judah

2. Hezekiahs response

a. Hezekiah took on an attitude of humility

b. He went to the temple to pray

c. He called on the prophet of God

3. The kings taunt

a. The king mocked Hezekiahs faith (10)

b. He told him to be reasonable about his coming defeat

4. Hezekiahs faith

a. Hezekiah believed the prophets words, not the enemys

b. Hezekiah acknowledged that his situation was impossible for him (17)

c. He trusted God was greater (19)


a. Do we evaluate our situations through a natural reason?

b. Do we trust that God is able to deliver when it is humanly impossible?

Challenge: We must choose to listen either to natural reason or the voice of faith.



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God of GraceText: Luke 7:110

Key Thought: People value us for what we do; God desires for us to come with faith as dependentchildren.


a. Israel was occupied territory under Roman rule

b. Centurions were foreign troops maintaining that rule2. The perspective of the elders

a. This centurion was sympathetic to the Jewish nation and religion

b. Some Jewish elders commended the centurion on the merit of his deeds

3. The perspective of the centurion

a. The centurion saw himself as unworthy and was seeking unmerited grace

b. He believed that Jesus was Lord and nature itself would follow his command

4. The perspective of Jesus

a. Jesus responded to the man not because of what he did, but because his faith

b. Jesus commended the centurions faith above anyone in Israel


a. Do we value people for what they can do for us?

b. Are we as confident in Gods ability to move for us as the centurion was?

Challenge: Faith, confident expectation, positions us to experience the miraculous.



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God of LoveText: Luke 7:3650

Key Thought: We cannot earn Gods love, but we can respond from a grateful heart.


a. The Jewish culture was one of merit

b. The Pharisee understood himself to be one who had earned Gods favor

2. Simona. Simon invited Jesus into his home as an equal

b. He was evaluating Jesus and judging that he was not what he claimed (39)

3. The sinful woman

a. This woman bowed down before Jesus

b. She poured out what was of great value

c. She expressed lavish love

4. Debt forgivena. Jesus showed that both came as debtors before God

b. Yet it was the woman who knew it and she loved because of it


a. Do we approach God on the basis of merit or knowing we are forgiving?

b. Are there those we look at as less than ourselves before God?

Challenge: The realization of how great Gods forgiveness is will lead us to greater affectiontoward God.



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Unlimited ResourcesText: Luke 9:1017

Key Thought: We will know when to rest and when to run if our eyes are fixed on Jesus.


a. In the previous section, Jesus had sent the disciples out to minister

b. They were returning after preaching and healing in many towns

2. Which needs to meet?

a. Jesus took the disciples aside for a time of rest

b. The crowds followed and Jesus welcomed them

3. The disciples thinking

a. The disciples said to send them away

b. They saw their own limitation (13b)

4. Jesus thinking

a. Jesus saw the little they had to offer plus God as enough

b. In Jesus hands, their offering fed all with much left over


a. Do we set aside time for rest, yet ultimately still make that available to God?

b. Are we willing to offer God what we have?

Challenge: In Gods hands, what we have to offer is enough.



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Idling in Gods Presence

Text: Luke 10:3842

Key Thought: Jesus is looking for a devoted heart before a diligent hand.


a. In the previous readings we read of active service

b. Jesus had also just told a story of righteousness in action

2. Martha

a. Martha had a desire to serve Jesus

b. She also complained that Mary wasnt along side helping

3. Mary

a. Mary positioned herself at the Lords feet

b. Her focus was not on her service, but on Jesus

4. Jesus

a. Jesus told Martha that she was not seeking first things first

b. He valued Marys choice as the one thing needed


a. Do we put work for the Lord before learning his heart?

b. What is the priority of our life?

Challenge: The thing God seeks above all is the heart that seeks him.



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Gods Decree

Text: Lamentations 2:122

Key Thought: The God who is merciful is also just.


a. Jeremiah had spent his ministry calling for repentance

b. The people had rejected him and were exiled

2. The Lord has done it

a. Jeremiah speaks of the Lord doing what he decreed

b. He laments over the disaster God brought

3. The people have done it

a. God had told them their choice would lead to its outcome (Deut 30:19)

b. The people had turned and God was true to his word

4. God is the only hope

a. Jeremiah tells the people to cry out to God (18-19)

b. They have known justice; their hope is for mercy


a. Do we blame God for what we or others have brought on?

b. Are we ready to confess our sins and look to God for mercy?

Challenge: Mercy triumphs over judgment (James 2:13).



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