November 8, 2009 - A Shepherd's Gain: Finding Lost Sheep

Key Focus:

• A shepherd's gain, his great reward in this life, is finding lost sheep and bringing them back to safety and joy.
  • Celebration of joy: finding the lost sheep wherever they are
  • Concern during the journey: losing no strays to the wolves
  • Commitment to finding: crazy love knows no boundaries [innies vs. outies]

Idea Bin:

• Dramatic Piece or Video:

• Key Songs:

• Important Scriptures:

• Communion Focus

• Elder Selection Process
• Harvest Missions

• Luke 15:1-7
• Ezekiel 34
• Isaiah 40:11

Time in the Word Focus:

• Key focus of the Time in the Word: God as our Shepherd in the O.T., and Jesus as our Shepherd in the N.T. show us what the gain of a Shepherd is -- finding lost sheep and bringing them back into the fold, whether these are sheep lost from His flock of sheep of another flock.

Daybreak Focus: (See emphasis above! Team Working on Planning Order - Names)

Refresh Focus: (See emphasis above! Team Working on Planning Order - Names)