Titus sermon from Bloomington Campus - July 18, 2010

Introduce me and my family

Story on Mentoring

Lets examine the way we pursue the mentor and mentored relationship.

**Unpack the importance of this relationship.

**I want to unpack how a 2010 relationship can flourish.

**I want to unpack how Paul empowered Titus to do the stuff.

Who is Titus?

**Titus 1:4-5

**One of the first Gentile converts.

**Brother of Luke.

**Sent by Paul to the Corinthian church.

**An apostle who planted churches in Dalmatia (2 Timothy), who disciplined the body (2 Corinthians), and who appointed pastors (Titus 1).

Unpacking the Mentoring Relationship in Greater Detail

The mentoring relationship within the church becomes one of the most important tools for our future and our health.

The mentoring relationship will take time.

 The mentoring relationship will flourish when you trust them…

With the living of the gospel.

With decision making in tough circumstances.

To lead other leaders:

Unpacking how Paul empowered Titus: A Case Study for 2010.

**Look for people of character to appoint as leaders (Titus 1:6-10).

**Teach and encourage the entire body with the authority of Christ (Titus 2).

**Remember the Spirit has empowered you to good deeds/good works (Titus 3:3-7).

Closing

**Do you have a spiritual mentor?

**Are you mentoring anyone?

**Character vs. Competency - What is possibly holding you back?

Doing Ministry Together

Watch and Listen Online: http://www.thevineyardchurch.us/podcast

June 10-11, 2010 with

Ben Hoerr and Adam Waters

Paul and Timothy

I. Introduction

A. Doing Ministry Together

B. 2 Timothy 2:2

II. What it means to be a Paul

A. Change our thinking about maturity

B. Recognize this is something that we can all do

C. Be intentional

D. Ask the Holy Spirit what you should do

III. What it means to be a Timothy

A. We must be intentional about our time as our mentors are

B. We must imitate their character, not just their

methods (1 Timothy 4:6-16)

C. We must understand this is a life-long process (2 Timothy 4)

VI. Conclusion

Hopefully, I will be....

...putting up some new notes here very soon! After almost a year hiatus and a good sebatical for me personally, there are some good teaching opportunities coming up for me very soon. As summer approaches, it's looking like I might get a chance to share more publicly again. I will post up a schedule soon, but I am hoping to begin helping teach at one of our new multi-site campuses off and on. Plus, I may have a chance to share in July at the Urbana campus. Pray on this friends and it looks like Adam's Talks will have posting again very soon.
Thanks for your patience,
Adam

Interesting weekend...

so Corrie couldn't stop coughing last week. So I laid hands on her and she finally slept through the night & is on the road for recovery. Then, when we were praying for Zeke to get better, I kept getting a crazy pain in a certain part of my lung. Then, when he went to the Dr's and they found the pneumonia, he had a black mass of infection in the exact spot where my pain was. Then, at bootcamp we prayed lots for people and saw God move people to new horizons and many to tears. Next, we went to baptisms at the Danville campus and one of the girls who we were laying hands on afterwards (FYI-like 6 people were immersed during first service we were at and they had MORE second service. Praise God!) totally got shaken by God. Here joy was so apparent and she was so filled that the tears and laughter completely were incredible to watch. God's gonna turn that girl into a huge light for her college campus. So, when we got home after 3 days away at bootcamp, we were not ready for spiritual warfare... though we should've been.

The kids were cranky, but Zeke was almost unbearable. I had to carry him to the car screaming. We just chalked it up to 3 straight days at gma's and angry at parents. When he didn't stop screaming for half an hour, Corrie was like this is inhuman. Sam and Ethne seemed a bit freaked out by his behavior. When we got home, I took him straight to his room and closed the door. NOTE: we have not been yelling but have talked calmly with him the whole time. I asked him to take off his shoes and coat, which he refused to do, yelling as loud as he could in a voice I didn't recognize. I removed his shoes and hung up his jacket, then began to pray. The screaming got louder. I asked Zeke to tell me his name, at which point he yelled louder and said, "NO." Then, I asked him "in the name of Jesus" to tell me his name. He then screamed louder and said "get away from me." Then, I began to pray in tongues and asked the Spirit to come, which really agitated him. When, I place right hand on his forhead and my left on his heart and prayed "in the name of Jesus", he screamed 3-4 times, "I WILL NOT LET HIM GO!" in another voice and began to punch me 12-15 times in the face screaming "I WILL NOT LET GO!" several more times. After 10-15 minutes of prayer like this, he calmed some and I embraced him and once again began to pray in tongues over him. He got violent for about 30 seconds, then the Spirit broke through and I began to weep. After this, I began to ask him his name several more times. At about the fifth time, Zeke finally answered and said his name. He told me he was tired and very hungry... to quote the scriptures "he was sitting and in his right mind. (Mark 6)".
So now, I am tired and thinking a nap is in order, but not without leaving you with one more note. After all of this happened and Zeke was "himself" again. I began to wonder where the demon might have gone. So, I prayed against it bothering the rest of the house and agaist it bothering Corrie, me, Sam or Ethne. Then, on a whim, I prayed it wouldn't bother the dogs (see pigs in Mark 6). Upon the moment of me praying this, Bart (our younger-larger black lab) vommitted imediately under the table, ran into Zeke's room and vommitted again, then ran to the back door and puked once more before going outside...

Let me know your thoughts.

And please pray for us. Apparently we're in the right spot with God, because Satan doesn't attack non-threats to his earthly kingdom.

Come Jesus. Come Spirit and fill us up with new strength.

Blessings,
Adam