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bible narrative has opened my brain and my eyes there are many topics i have never hard it before .we to talk of jesus but most of us we dont understand him i now know and understand about jesus Another topic i have learnt is about cresendo of jesus infact i have learnt a lot about THE BIBLE NARRATIVE

The hope of Israel has always been as we are seeing. it was the hope of resurrection of the New creation, glorified creation, the New Heaven and the New Earth. In the book of revelation, we see that Yahweh would come down from heaven and lives among His people on this New creation forever.
We see in Philippians 3:10-11, Paul is continuing this hope in the Old Testament. It is not just his hope but infact it is his purpose. That is one of the reason Paul does what he did inorder that he would attain to the resurrection from the dead. Paul was strong in his believe, and in 1Thessalonians 4:13, he was asked: What happens to our brethren who had died before Jesus came back. Even today when we preached Christ people are still asking this same question. Paul respond to such question in 1Corinthians 15:12-13, Paul said, if there is no resurrection, it means that Christwas not raise. And if Christ was not raised then we are dead in our sins and the dead are lost. He said, it is because of Jesus resurrection that we have hope of resurrection. If Christ did not rise, then what was promised in the Old Testament was a lie.
Resurrection is the hope of biblical narrative.
In book of Revelation, the Church, because of the struggle and persecution God’s people were going through, many were scared and afraid. So the major message of Revelation was to encourage them and to push them unto the hope of the resurrection and of the eternal promises yet to come.

I must confess that the teachings are well constructed to teach, train and equip for better performance..
As I continue, I get great revelations and many Biblical mysteries are unraveled to me.
I desire to be taught more in order to teach with clarity and understanding.

When we speak of the bible as the word of God, we are affirming that God speaks and that we should listen. And we are using language of communication. God speks through his word to us today and we must do a little bit of work to be able to hear what he is saying to his people. We must first understand that God spoke and then God speaks.
First, God spoke to his people who are the original audience and the result of that is what we called the Bible.
God also speaks outside of the Bible: he speaks through a multitude of people, he speaks to us through the presence of the Holy Spirit, he speaks through the prophetic, he speaks through our brothers and sisters in Christ, and he speakes through other ways.
But how do we understand what God spoke to that particular group of people? We still have a question in mind when we read the scriptures. And that is: What does that mean? , how can I understand better? Sometimes it is easy to understand but sometimes it is not. Sometimes we even have preunderstanding. Sometimes we bring to the text what we have already decided, heard and understood. So it is very difficult for us to see or read anything different because that is what we already knows. The issue of preunderstanding can lead us astray. We need to read the text with fresh eye so that we are able to understand it a little bit more accurately.
Reading and understanding the Bible is complex because we have so much factors that separate us from the original audience. In doing so we need to engage in a cross cultural trip. Trying to understand the Bible in its original context, necessairily involve bridging the gap, time, location, nation language and culture.

Reading , interpreting and apply the word of God the course has by insight and understanding am grateful for that unit

This subject undoubtedly is a must for every preacher of the Word. It enriched and challenged me to delve more on the background of the text I’m reading so I would be a able to deliver a more accurate interpretation of the Word and how it applies to us today.

I thank God for the woman of God for giving such a life-giving discussion on the above.
I have learnt how to set goals so that I become a fruitful person/minister
I have learnt how time management is very important in my daily life whether physically, spiritually etc. Now, I know how to organize myself around priorities, work smart, and be disciplined in whatever I do.
Lastly, this session has taught me how to monitor my physical, spiritual and emotional gauges so that they do not run low.

This unit actually introduced me to myself. I have been strugling for many years to know who I realy am and what God want to use me for. After tis unit, I surely know myself and God’s calling on my life much better.

It is about making space and time for God so that he can work in and through us. When we love, we put ourselves in a place where we become more like him whwre we can be disciple by God. There is a transformation approach to love. We should be spiritually in the same place for years but rather we should be growing and developing. We are under construction and in a process and so that process of being developed, of being transformed happens when we put ourselves in a place where god can do the work and that happens undergroung(The root of the tree). Our root system is our personal deveotion between us and God alone. It is our personal devetion, daily habit that nobody knows about. For some they allow their root system to be shallow whiles for some it is deep. We are supposed to be a tree that is planted, that is grafted into God. When our root is deep through dicipline, when the storm comes, the tree (that is us) still remain standing. But when if our root is shallow, unhealthy, and non-existence and then the storm comes, the tree falls over.
So we want to be healthy trees, standing strong, bearing fruits.
Christian spirituality involves a deep knowing Jesus and through this the Father and the Holy Spirit.
Christian spirituality involves the grounding of the human spirit in the divine Spirit. And we facilitate that in spending time together; give time to God.
Discipline takes time.Spiritual growth takes time.
Time for contemplation, meditation, and reflection, unhurried and uninterrupted time.
Failing to do this we will be disconnected and be burnt ( John 15:1-17).
If we want to be disciples, let’s stay connected then we will grow and bear fruit.
Let us be planted in God (Psalm1:2-4).
Spiritual discipline will ad so much depth and life, and growth into our spiritual journey.

I now know that God loves everyone. He wants to speak to everyone. But some times we do close our ears with what we do.
All are called to do its work according to the anointing that God gave us differently.

The primary and most aspects of God’s call is the call to Himself. The call is always about him. God is jealous about us. And it will be about us orienting or re-orienting in the direction of him or who he is.
So there will be a direction to our call and little having orientation about it.
The way we know if it the or a call it if it is about him.
Tthe secondary calling is our specific outworking of his call. Calling is not just a mission statement that we put upon wall that sometimes inspires us. A calling is something we are asked to do. When God calls us, he is not just that he is saying something to make us feel inspire. he is actually asking something of us. So there is going to be a response and an action to it.
Two aspects of God’s call:
-It’s about him
– It involve some sort of response.
The call of God is mysterious and it is really hard to describe.
* To Isaiah it is a booming voice from the sky
*To John it might habe been a voice while he was on the island of Patmos.
* To moses, it was a burning bush.
* To others it might have been a still small voice.
-It is a little bit undefinable.
Therefore the call of God will come in a way that we can hear and hear it so clearly and then interprete it and act it out that we would be surer of that than some of the material things in our lives that we can see, touch and taste.
There is nothing surer than the call of God. It is constant.
The call of God is going to come to us loosing ourselves. That is, if I have the call of God and if I understand when God speaks, there is an obligation to obedience in that speaking, then am I going to loose who I am? and am I going not to be able to do what am always want to do?
-God does call us to “be ourselves” and “do what we are”.
-But we are only “ourselves” and can only “do what we are” when we follow God’s call.

this has been an incredible journey so far. i am thoroughly blessed to have done this course. i have learned so much. thank you all at axx.

I have learnt that God is one in three different time and work. God worked as the father in OT and the son in NT finally as Holly Spirit. Is the Holly Spirit who is workinh now.

This is a great blessing for me to be one of the axx student, because I have learnt a lot and I have gained more knowledge of the things of God.

There are five key areas in the life and ministry of Jesus.
– The Kingdom of God
-Jesus’ Crucifixion
-The Atonement
-Jesus’ resurrection and ascension
-Jesus’ second coming
1. The Kingdom of God
(Mark 1:14-15)
* The Good News that Jesus proclaim is that the long awaited kingdom of god, the personal desire of the whole Israel, that God’s Messiah will come to set up His Kingdom.
The Kingdom of God is wherever God reigns as King. Although He is sovereign over all creation, this kingdom exists through obedient subjects.
* For first century Jews, kingdom meant that God’s Messiah would come and will rule the world from Jerusalem, a kingdom of justice, peace, mercy and blessing.
Jesus came as Israel’s Messiah and the world’s true Lord, but representing an upside-down kingdom (not as physical king to fight war as Israel expected) that he demonstrated through his life and teachings.
2. The crucifixion:
Jesus willingly gave his life of his own volition to save the world from sin (John 10:17). This he did to fulfil prophecy (Isaiah 53:3-11).
3. The Atonement:
Means to be reconciled to God because our sins have been dealt with and we are forgiven. God can’t just ignore sin, therefore it has to be atoned for.
4. Resurrection and Ascension:
Jesus rose from the dead on the third day after his death. The resurrection is at the heart of Christian faith ( 1Corinthians 15:17-19). Jesus words and works were validated through resurrection.
Through this, he provides the promised of our resurrection. Through ascension, Jesus has returned to heaven and sit on the right habd of the Father, enthroned as the world’s true Lord.
5. Jesus second coming:
Jeus promised his disciples that he will return (John 14:3) which was confirmed by:
– the angel at his ascension (Acts 1:11),
-the apostles (Acts 3:19, Revelation 22:12,20).
Jesus is going to return as Judge (Matthew 25:31-46)
He will rule his eternal Kingdom.

– A call to a particular nation (people group), and place
-A call to a particular ministry. Example Medical mission, Bible translation, fellowship etc.
3. A call to work with a particular type of organization.
Example:
-weekly bible translation
– you may be called through your local church.
* The Bible teaches us about having a mission call:
– One may have:
1. Supernatural call
2. The commissioned call
3. The common sense call.

Under this unit of culture has give a deeper view of God’s word to community gospel

I have learnt allot. I will be moving around to preach the Good News to the poor. I have now in my mind that there are some people who haven’t received the gospel of Jesus Christ. I will be the one to preach to those people. Am ready to face all what l have learnt and put them in practice.
God bless you so much for this course

For some reason, public speaking is one of the greatest fear that people have. Ther is a huge amount of pressure put on you at that moment of preaching. The fear surrounding public speaking has to do with the concept like fearing humiliation, you risk saying something wrong and then getting embarrassed, to be humilated by others. There is a huge rejection attached to it as well, fearing failure, making mistakes, feeling like you have not done a great job.
– One of the techniques to help us in dealing with anxiety is preparation.
Preparation is central for all of us as we step into the preaching role. It is not just preparing the message you are going to preach but also preparing yourself.
Preparation helps us to be confidence, knowing that what we are going to say it’s already prepared.
*Preparation involves : voice rehearsal, practice.
* preparing your yourself: invloves preparing your appearance, using of body, using of stage. Making sure by the time you get up, infront of people everything that you are doing is rehearsed.

Now I have clear thought and well articulate way of delivery message

A sermon is a religious discourse[1] or oration by a preacher or other member of clergy. Sermons address a scriptural, theological, or moral topic, usually expounding on a type of belief, law, or behavior within both past and present contexts. Elements of the sermon often include exposition, exhortation, and practical application. The act of delivering a sermon is called preaching. In secular usage, the word sermon may refer, often disparagingly, to a lecture on morals.
In Christian practice, a sermon is usually preached to a congregation in a place of worship, either from an elevated architectural feature, known as a pulpit or an ambo, or from behind a lectern. The word sermon comes from a Middle English word which was derived from Old French, which in turn originates from the Latin word sermō meaning ‘discourse.’ A sermonette is a short sermon (usually associated with television broadcasting, as stations would present a sermonette before signing off for the night). The Christian Bible contains many speeches without interlocution, which some take to be sermons: Jesus’ sermon on the mount in Matthew 5–7[2] (though the gospel writers do not specifically call it a sermon; the popular descriptor for Jesus’ speech there came much later); and Peter after Pentecost in Acts 2:14–40[3] (though this speech was delivered to non-Christians and as such is not quite parallel to the popular definition of a sermon).
Sermons also differ in the amount of time and effort used to prepare them. Some are scripted while others are not.
With the advent of reception theory, researchers also became aware that how sermons are listened to affects their meaning as much as how they are delivered. The expectations of the congregation, their prior experience of listening to oral texts, their level of scriptural education, and the relative social positions—often reflected in the physical arrangement—of sermon-goers vis-a-vis the preacher are part of the meaning of the sermon.
Albert Raboteau describes a common style of Black preaching first developed in America in the early 19th century, and common throughout the 20th and into the 21st centuries:
The preacher begins calmly, speaking in conversational, if oratorical and occasionally grandiloquent, prose; he then gradually begins to speak more rapidly, excitedly, and to chant his words and time to a regular beat; finally, he reaches an emotional peak in which the chanted speech becomes tonal and merges with the singing, clapping, and shouting of the congregation.
There are a number of different types of sermons, that differ both in their subject matter and by their intended audience, and accordingly not every preacher is equally well-versed in every type. The types of sermons are:
Biographical sermons – tracing the story of a particular biblical character through a number of parts of the Bible.
Evangelistic sermons (associated with the Greek word kerygma) – seeking to convert the hearers or bring them back to their previous faith through a recounting of the foundational story of the religion, in Christianity, the Good News.
Expository preaching – exegesis, that is sermons that expound and explain a text to the congregation.[34]
Historical sermons – which seek to portray a biblical story within its non-biblical historical perspective.[35]
Hortatory sermons (associated with the Greek word didache) – exhort a return to living ethically, in Christianity a return to living on the basis of the gospel.
Illuminative sermons, also known as proems (petihta) – which connect an apparently unrelated biblical verse or religious question with the current calendrical event or festival.[36]
Liturgical sermons – sermons that explain the liturgy, why certain things are done during a service, such as why communion is offered and what it means.[37]
Narrative sermons – which tell a story, often a parable, or a series of stories, to make a moral point.
Redemptive-historical preaching – sermons that take into consideration the context of any given text within the broader history of salvation as recorded in the canon of the bible.
Topical sermons – concerned with a particular subject of current concern;
Sermons can be both written and spoken out loud.

Every lesson are very important and good for blessings but I’m very blessed by the “Build your Church Planting Team” to use this doctrine in the future.

The Kingdom Focused Church


I. The Kingdom

The Kingdom is the present reign of God in today’s world. It is expressed through the transformed lives of those who have made Him Lord and Savior of their lives. It is the reign of Jesus as Lord and King in our lives. It is the Holy Spirit working in us, through us and around us in such a way that we live and do the will of God.

It is the fundamental reality in our world.
It is the experience of God in our daily lives.
It is seeing the world the way that God sees it.

The Kingdom of God was the central focus of the life and ministry of Jesus. He mentioned the Kingdom 90 times. He mentioned the church by name twice.

Matthew 6:33
33 “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.

Every person’s central life focus should be to align with the Kingdom of God. Through the Kingdom we can live the lives God created us to live.

If an understanding of the reality of the Kingdom in today’s world is absent:

1. We will fail to see God at work around us
2. We will have little confidence in what God is, has done or will do
3. We will attempt to do things for Him instead of allowing Him to work through us
4. We will not go, give, endure, fulfill the calling on us


II. The Church

A church is a Kingdom community of believers gathered locally in a dynamic fellowship under Christ’s Lordship. It exists to make disciples, mature believers and to multiply them into Kingdom ministries.

What we do as a church only makes sense in the light of the Kingdom of God. Success comes as a result of a clear vision of what God wants from us. It is from God that our focus must come. Only then will what we do be empowered by Him.

Every successful church is a Kingdom focused church. A Kingdom focused church exists to transform unbelievers into Christlike believers and to mature them into ministers of Christ.

The Kingdom focused church is clear on two points:

1. Stewardship (vertical) – We serve God. Our concern is His will, truth and work.
2. Ministry (horizontal) – We serve people.

It begins with God and moves to people. Only with this order will priorities and programs be successful.
The central issue is advancing the Kingdom through Kingdom communities (churches). Bringing people into the Kingdom should be our focus above anything else. We exist to reach people for Christ. This is the central issue in the universe today. It is fulfilled in the context of the local church.

The Great Commission (Matthew 28:18-20) is the key to understanding what God is doing in our world at this moment. We must maintain a Great Commission focus and keep it moving forward. Otherwise we will fail.

The church is a Kingdom community where every believer is a part of the Kingdom. Our purpose should be to establish God’s Kingdom in the lives of the people in the communities we represent. Our community is our mission field. It is through us that God invades life on earth (Matthew 5:13-16). We are Kingdom agents.

A local church is a gathering of believers to worship and serve the Lord in their own way and understanding of who He is and what He wants them to be and do.

The church is geographical but the Kingdom is universal. The church changes but the Kingdom does not. The church can be influenced by ethnic differences, geography, time and by culture but the Kingdom transcends all these things.

loved the teaching.