Come Follow Me: Friction

Pastor Kent Landhuis

THEME - Growth requires friction (High Invitation and High Challenge.)

TEXT - John 15:18-27

1. Embrace the High Challenge of Trouble.

• John 16:33

• John 14:1

• Philippians 3:7-11

2. Embrace the High Challenge of Opposition.

• John 15:18-20

• Ephesians 6:10-17

3. Embrace the High Challenge of Friction.

• John 15:21-27

• John 6:68

NEXT STEPS

1. Name your quiet place and time: ________________

2. Meditate: Choose a verse, ask God to speak, listen.

3. Journal: Where have you seen friction (suffering) transform you in a positive way?

4. Pray: Ask the Holy Spirit to shape you.

JOURNAL PROMPT

Where have you seen friction (suffering) transform you in a positive way?

PRAY

Ask the Holy Spirit to shape you.

Come Follow Me: Love

Pastor Kent Landhuis

THEME - Abiding in God’s love bears the fruit of obedience.

TEXT - John 15:9-17

1. Abide in God’s love.

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

John 15:4-5, 9-11

Philippians 3:7-11

2. Bear the fruit of love.

John 15:12-16

1 John 4:7-10

3. Love one another.

John 15:17

1 John 4:19-21

NEXT STEPS

1. Name your quiet place and time: ________________

2. Meditate: Choose a verse, ask God to speak, spend time listening.

3. Journal: What is the relationship between abiding, loving, obeying, and bearing fruit in your life?

4. Pray: Simply abide and pray as the Holy Spirit leads you.

MEDITATE

John 15:4-5 - “Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.”

John 15:9-10 - “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love.

Luke 14:5-6 - Then he asked them, “If one of you has a child or an ox that falls into a well on the Sabbath day, will you not immediately pull it out?” And they had nothing to say.

Philippians 3:10-11 - I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead.

I John 4:8 - Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

JOURNAL

What is the relationship between abiding, loving, obeying, and bearing fruit in your life?

PRAY

Simply abide and pray as the Holy Spirit leads you.

Come Follow Me: Surrender

Pastor Kent Landhuis

THEME - Spiritual formation requires surrender.

TEXT - John 15:1-11

1. Have it your way.

• John 15:5.

• Viticulturist - Vine Dresser

• Isaiah 45:9

2. Just wait.

• John 15:4

• Abide - remain

3. Not by might, not by power, but by my Spirit.

• John 15:8

• Zechariah 4:6

• Galatians 5:13-26

NEXT STEPS

1. Name your quiet place and time: ________________

2. Meditate: Choose a verse: Isaiah 45:9, John 15:4-5, Galatians 5:22-25, Zechariah 4:6.

JOURNAL

Where am I reluctant or resistant to change?”

PRAY

Ask the Holy Spirit to work. (Surrender to the Holy Spirit.)