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Discovering Church Planting — light from one house kindling new houses across a valley

A household believesActs 16:11-15Length: Standard

Eat

Read the passage slowly, read it again, then retell it in your own words. If you can't retell it, read it once more.

  • Read
  • Reread
  • Retell

Digest

Answer from what the passage actually says — stay in the text.

  1. What does this passage show me about God?

    • How does each household — Lydia's and the jailer's — come to faith, and what does each do right afterward?
  2. What does it show me about people — and about myself?

    • What changes if you think of planting as reaching whole households, not just individuals?
  3. What will I obey this week? (a concrete step, with a day)

    • Which household will you name this week and begin praying for and asking to gather in?
  4. Who will I tell?

    • Whom will you tell the moment a household opens its door, so the cohort can pray and help?

Grow

Growth is God's part, not yours. Do the cycle faithfully and trust Him to give the growth (1 Corinthians 3:6–7).

Pray

Lord, in one city you opened Lydia's heart and a jailer's whole house. Open a household in my city where a church can be born.