Ways the celebration of the Lord’s supper was misused in the church at Corinth

• They ignored the significance of the feast taken as an ordinary meal
• It led to drunkenness/disorderliness
• It did not want to unite believers/created divisions in the church
• It led to oppression of the poor Christians/the rich showed off
• They took it when they were unworthy/ profaned it
• They did not seek God’s blessings/did not give thanks

Incident concerning the healing of the centurion’s servant

• In this incident centurion was a roman officer who had a very sick servant at the point of death.
• When he heard of Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders to ask him to come and heal his servant. The elders went to Jesus and asked him to help the centurion
• Jesus went with them towards the centurions house before they reached the house, the centurion sent his friends again to Jesus saying he was not worthy to receive Jesus in his house but  he believed in Jesus power to heal just by command. Jesus praised such faith coming from a non-Jew 
• When those who had been sent returned to the house, they found the servant well. The faith of the centurion healed his servant

1. Preaching the good news/sermons
2. Performing miracles
3. Using parables
4. Being a role model
5. Delegating to his disciples to go and preach/sending the 72
6. Using questions and answers
7. Visiting people’s houses
8. Using wise sayings/stories/narratives
9. Using Jewish scriptures
10. Use of real life situations e.g. Adulterous woman

• Honesty should be observed /faithfulness is important Acts 5: 1-1 1)
• Lying should be avoided
• Christians should be willing to share their property with others/should not be selfish/greedy
• Christians should resist temptation.

• Sin can results to death/suffering . / God will not compromise with evil
• Sins bring fear
• Christians should not be influenced by others to commit sin/evil
• Christians should not test God/Holy spirit /God sees everything
• Christians should speak against evil.

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• ​​THE CHOOSING OF THE TWELVE DISCIPLES AND JESUS TEACHINGS ON TRUE DISCIPLESHIP

• The poor in spirit shall inherit the kingdom of God.
• They should live with a hope for a better future.
• God is the God of the living

• Through resurrection there is no death/immorality.
• The righteous will resurrect and live eternally.
• At resurrection Christians are like angles

​John 4:46-54 New International Version (NIV)
46 Once more he visited Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. And there was a certain royal official whose son lay sick at Capernaum. 47 When this man heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea, he went to him and begged him to come and heal his son, who was close to death.
48 “Unless you people see signs and wonders,” Jesus told him, “you will never believe.”
49 The royal official said, “Sir, come down before my child dies.”
50 “Go,” Jesus replied, “your son will live.”
The man took Jesus at his word and departed. 51 While he was still on the way, his servants met him with the news that his boy was living. 52 When he inquired as to the time when his son got better, they said to him, “Yesterday, at one in the afternoon, the fever left him.”
53 Then the father realized that this was the exact time at which Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.” So he and his whole household believed.
54 This was the second sign Jesus performed after coming from Judea to Galilee.

• Witnessed that Jesus was the messiah/Iamb of God/son of God /the introduced Jesus to the crowd.
• Introduced Jesus to his disciples.
• Two of his disciples became Jesus disciples

The story of Lazarus can be retrieved from the book of John 11 and Luke 16

• Wealth should not be used to buy luxuries when others are suffering languishing in misery and poverty/ not for ones glory
• Wealth should be sued to alleviate the suffering of others/ to help the poor and the needy
• The rich should show concern for the suffering of others

• To have faith in God hence prayer
• Prayers should be short, clear and to the point
• Should show honour to God before making any request
• Prayer should be made in private/ silent places (Jesus always withdrew from the crowd to go and pray).

• ​One Sabbath, Jesus was teaching in the Synagogue
• There was …….. whose right hand was withered
• The Pharisees / scribes were there watching to see whether he would reap on the Sabbath
• Jesus knew their thought
• The man stood in the middle
• Jesus asked if it was lawful to do good or harm
• He asked the man to stretch out his hand
• His hand was instantly healed / restored
• The scribes / teachers of the law was filled with fury / discussed what they might do to Jesus