The Fellowship Experiment (theFX) is a 6 week Bible study, Sunday evenings 6:00 pm, beginning August 16th, 2015 through September 27th, 2015 at______ and ___________ home. The study will focus on the plural Hebrew names of God. The first week we will talk about the great "I Am" , Jehovah". The remaining five weeks we will look at the Old Testament and see how the name of God is used in such a worshipful way by saying WHO he is with WHAT he does. ( For example. Jehovah Jirah Means The LORD who provides.) Names had such deep meaning to ancient Hebrews!
But wait there is more....
The Fellowship Experiment (theFX) came about through a prompting of the Holy Spirit on my heart. A few weeks ago my senior pastor delivered a message entitled "A Holy Ambition". It was about young King Josiah's reign and how he kept making decisions for God as he continued to mature in his role as King. The pastor challenged the congregation to pay attention to what God may be challenging us to do and to take some ambition to do it. And right then and there the Holy Spirit started nudging and poking at my heart. That night I had a dream about a verse in the Bible. When I woke from that dream, it was a very strong call on my heart to do a 6 week Bible study formatted on that verse.
I was thinking ,"wow! I haven't led anything or taught anything for over 6 years......"but I knew I had to be faithful. I've been taking baby steps for the last 2 years since attending Heritage and this was, well, not a baby step.
I didn't know where the verse I dreamed of was until I went to THE GOOGLE. The verse is I Corinthians 14:26. From verse 26 to the end of the chapter Paul is instructing the Corinthians to conduct orderly worship services, but theFX is loosely based on just verse 26. In this verse Paul begins the orderly worship instructions by stating that when you gather together everyone has a hymn, or word of instruction, or revelation, or a tongue with corresponding interpretation to share it for the purpose of strengthening the church (each other).
Here is how The Fellowship Experiment (theFX) will work, and I'm sure you will want to be a part of it.... Each week the format of our time together will be based on what each person brings to the group time to share - a song, poem, scripture, testimony, journal entry, etc. To help engender sharing each person will have 2 assignments every week:
1. Pay attention to how God has revealed himself to you during the week
2. Take efforts to advance the Kingdom Of God in some fashion (share the gospel, spread kindness, joy, service or sacrifice.)
It is my thought if we live the week with these 2 things in mind we will come together on Sunday evenings with an abundance of things to share together.
We will also pray out loud together and in a prayer posture of your choice. This may stretch some people. We aren't used to having our voices heard by others, but this an experiment, remember.
We will also spend time in Scripture, as explained above. My father, a retired pastor, and I will be tag teaming the teaching.
At the end of the 6 weeks. We will evaluate to see if we want the experiment to continue.
I'm excited about theFX. I hope you are too!!!! Feel free to invite someone. If we crowd out Sandy and Brian's house, I'm sure we will figure it out.
Please email me or Facebook me with any questions. You can call me too, but if you know me at all, you know that is the most unreliable way to get in touch with me....
God bless you all
Anita Wilson
Our experiment is complete but we were sneaky and did one more week. Anita Wilson taught on Jehovah Shalom. I declare the experiment a SUCCESS!!!
What Is This Fellowship Experiment And Do I Want To Be Experimented On? by Anita Wilson
The Fellowship Experiment (theFX) is a 6 week Bible study, Sunday evenings 6:00 pm, beginning August 16th, 2015 through September 27th, 2015 at Brian and Sandy Durnell's home. The study will focus on the plural Hebrew names of God. The first week we will talk about the great "I Am" , Jehovah". The remaining five weeks we will look at the Old Testament and see how the name of God is used in such a worshipful way by saying WHO he is with WHAT he does. ( For example. Jehovah Jirah Means The LORD who provides.) Names had such deep meaning to ancient Hebrews!
But wait there is more....
But wait there is more....
I Missed The Experiment What Can I Do? What CAN I Do?
Don't despair! You did miss out on the fellowship part BUT All the Bible studies are right here. Following are some suggestions on different ways to utilize these studies. You could take the big dive grab your Bible start at Lesson 1 and go through Lesson 7. But in case you are looking for some other ways here a a few suggestions:
- Read "What This Fellowship Experiment Is..." and start a group of your own. Feel free to pirate my concept for your own Fellowship Experiment and use without permission every word of the Bible studies myself and Pastor Sam placed on this blog.
- Quick Study
- Lesson 2 - "Discovering the Names of God In Psalm 23" provides you with a list of synopsis of 8 names/titles of God that can be found in the famous Psalm. The first, Jehovah Ra'ah - The Lord Is My Shepherd is a direct translation the other 7 are extrapolated and applied by the meaning of the verses as a form of introduction.
- Lesson 3 - "Introducing more Names and Titles of our LORD" is a simple listing of 15 titles of God and the scriptures their direct translations are found in.
- Targeted Studies:
- Jehovah and the tetragrammaton YHWH - Lesson 1
- Jehovah Rapha The Lord That Heals - Lesson 4
- Jehovah Nissi The Lord Is My Banner - Lesson 5
- Jehovah Mekkodishkom I AM the Lord who sanctifies you. - Lesson 6
- Jehovah Shalom The Lord Is Peace - Lesson 7
Anita
7- Jehovah Shalom (The LORD is peace) by Anita Wilson
Jehovah Shalom
As with each of the names, or titles of God, Jehovah Shalom was ascribed by a human being who had an amazing, life altering experience with the creator. The name of the man who ascribed "Shalom" to Jehovah was Gideon. Most understand that "Shalom" means peace, but in actuality it has a much deeper meaning than just that one word can hold.
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