1. Issachar Coaching Cluster Year 2 Session 3 Empowering by the Holy Spirit Exercising the Spiritual Gifts of the Holy Spirit

2. Testimonies In two (2) minutes, how has your Heavenly Father been blessing you?

3. What progress is occurring with your Top Three Evangelism Prayer List? Prayer

4. A primary end-product of the Western PA District is Growing Spirit-filled Christ-like Servant Leaders at every level in the District. Who are the individuals God desires you to develop into Servant Leaders?

5. Growing Spirit-filled Christ-like Servant Leader(ship) Core Competencies Model

6. Empowering by Holy Spirit Competencies: 1-Claiming the Promise, Presence & Power of the Holy Spirit 2-Obeying the Holy Spirit -Quench Not -Grieve Not -Resist Not

7. Growing Spirit-filled Christ-like Servant Leader(ship) Core Competencies Model Empowering by Holy Spirit Competencies: 3-Being filled with the Holy Spirit 4-Manifesting the Fruit of the Holy Spirit 5-Exercising the Spiritual Gifts of the Holy Spirit

8. Exercising the Spiritual Gifts of the Holy Spirit Primary Spiritual Gifts Passages Romans 12:3-8 1 Corinthians 12:1-31 1 Corinthians 14:1-40 Ephesians 4:11-13 1 Peter 4:7-11

9. What spiritual truths stand out in these passages?

10. What are some implications of Spiritual Gifts being given for the good of the Body of Christ?

11. What are some common misunderstandings related to Spiritual Gifts?

12. A Common Misunderstanding The Naturalistic Fallacy- A flaw in logic where Descriptive Statements (“Is” statements) are assumed to be Normative Statements (“Ought” statements). Ill. “Dad, everybody is going to the dance, therefore; I ought to be permitted to attend the dance…”

13. The Naturalistic Fallacy- (cont.) Ill. There are many world religions, therefore there ought to be many and all are valid. Ill. Officer everyone was speeding, therefore; I ought to be able to speed w/o getting a ticket.

14. The Naturalistic Fallacy- (cont.) Ill. “Everyone in the book of Acts spoke in tongues, therefore; today, all should speak in tongues.” Thus the book of Acts, an historical book containing factual (“Is”) statements, supersedes Epistles (1 & 2 Corinthians, etc.) which contain “didactic” normative (“ought”) statements concerning Spiritual Gifts.

15. Spiritual Gifts Romans 12 exhortation giving leadership mercy prophecy service teaching exhortation giving leadership mercy prophecy service teaching

16. 1 Corinthians 12 administration apostle discernment faith healing helps knowledge miracles

17. 1 Corinthians 12 (cont.) prophecy teaching tongues tongues interpretation wisdom tongues tongues interpretation wisdom

18. Ephesians 4 apostle evangelism pastor prophecy teaching evangelism pastor

19. Misc. Passages celibacy hospitality martyrdom missionary voluntary poverty

20. What appears to be your top four Spiritual Gifts?

21. How might you answer the following question: “What is the relationship between Spiritual Gifts and Natural Talents/Strengths?”

22. Expressions of Exercising Spiritual Gifts Radiating the Fruit of the Holy Spirit 24/7 Experiencing the energy of Jesus The Power of Christ’s Resurrection radiating from us Supernatural manifestations of the Holy Spirit occurring regularly

23. Resources for Exercising One’s Spiritual Gifts Discover Your Spiritual Gifts- Wagner

24. Triads: 1) Review your SMART Goals from Last Month 2)On a 1% to 100%, how often are you fully utilizing your Spiritual gifts? How can you raise that percentage? 3)What “a-ha,” “oh-no,” or “hmmm” has the Holy Spirit surfaced in our time together? 3) Record 1 to 3 SMART Goals for the next 30 days

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