Here is the PowerPoint from today’s talk.
Joy in Circumstance

Questions you might want to use in Cell for follow up

1. If you went to Jesus as the Rich Ruler did in Luke 18 and asked him the same question, what might he say to you? What is it that takes you attention away from your relationship with Jesus?
2. What steps can you take to be more like Paul in your attitude towards stuff? How can you help each other?

Following his conversion, a man called Paul patterned his life after Jesus Christ and lived as a rebel, an outlaw and a renegade.  He was single, poor, often homeless and so hated that he was run out of more than a few towns after taking a good beating.

Paul wrote a book in the Bible called ‘Philippians’ whilst sitting on the floor of a filthy Roman jail.  Alone in his jail cell, tired, hungry, sick, abandoned and facing the prospect of a brutal death, Paul sat down to write a letter to his friends in Philippi with more reference to “joy” or “rejoice” than in any of his other letters.

For the next 5 weeks we will be looking at “The Rebel’s Guide to Joy” including topics on suffering, conflict, temptation and poverty.