Your Personal Grow-Pray-Study (GPS) Guide

Read Luke 9:1-17 (NIV). What are your --

• Kairos Moment:
• Observe:
• Reflect:
• Discuss:
• Plan:
• Accountability:
• Act:
• Means for my life:

Read Matthew 6:25-34 (NIV).  What are your --

• Kairos Moment:
• Observe:
• Reflect:
• Discuss:
• Plan:
• Accountability:
• Act:
• Means for my life:

Read Matthew 19:16-29 (NIV). Conversation. (kairos) When the disciples hear, they are astonished. (observe and reflect) Who can be saved? (reflect) We left everything; what will there be for us? (discuss) If you leave houses, family, fields. (plan, account, act)

Read Matthew 20:20-28 (NIV). Coming to Jesus with request. (kairos) When other disciples hear this, they are indignant. (observe and reflect) Jesus calls them together for teaching and discussion. (discuss) Not so with you. (plan) Whoever wants to be first must be a slave to all. (account and act)

Read Matthew 18:15-35 (NIV). A wrong is done, a resentment remembered. (kairos) If your brother sins, go to him. (observe and reflect) Lord, how many times. (discuss) Therefore, forgive your brother from the heart. (plan, account, act)

Read Matthew 17:14-21 (NIV). The epileptic seizure (kairos). Unbelieving and perverse generation! (observe and reflect) Lord, why couldn’t we drive it out? (discuss) This kind can only come out by prayer. (plan) Mustard seed principle. (account/act)

This weeks GPS (grow-pray-study) guide references the concept of a Kairos Moment [Mark 1:15 (NIV)]: 

Two definitions to help keep you grounded:

1. REPENT - Inside (not Outside); Change (not Action); and the big question - What is God saying to me?
2. BELIEVE- Outside (not Inside); Action (not Change); and the big question - What is God asking me to do about it?

More information: Karios on Wikipedia and  OpenTheWord.org.