April 28–May 4
PROVERBS 11
Song 90 and Prayer | Wetin We Coming Learn? (1 min.)
1. Don’t Say It!
(10 min.)
Don’t say something that will hurt your “neighbor” (Pr 11:9; w02 5/15 26 ¶4)
Don’t say things that can divide people. (Pr 11:11; w02 5/15 27 ¶2-3)
Don’t carry private matter outside (Pr 11:12, 13; w02 5/15 27 ¶5)
SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT: How following Jesus advice in Luke 6:45 help us to avoid saying things that can hurt people?
2. Good-Good Thing Dem Inside the Bible
(10 min.)
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Pr 11:17—How we can benefit when we kind to people? (g20.1 11, box)
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Wetin you learn from the Bible reading this week that you like to talk about?
3. Bible Reading
(4 min.) Pr 11:1-20 (th study 5)
4. How to Start Talking With People
(4 min.) INFORMAL WITNESSING. Look for way to tell the person something you learn from the meeting. (lmd lesson 2 point 4)
5. Checking Back
(4 min.) INFORMAL WITNESSING. Show one video from the Teaching Toolbox. (lmd lesson 8 point 3)
6. Making Disciples
(4 min.) PUBLIC WITNESSING. Ask the person if they want study the Bible, and show them how we can do it. (lmd lesson 10 point 3)
Song 157
7. Don’t Say Things That Will Spoil the Peace in the Congregation
(15 min.) Yor discuss it.
Because we not perfect, we will make mistake and say thing dem that not correct. (Jas 3:8) But if we stop and think about the problem that can come when we say bad things to others, it will help us to not say things that we will later regret. Let talk about some of thing dem we can say that can spoil the peace in the congregation:
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Boasting about ourself. This one mean praising ourself too much. It can make other people jealous and they can start running competition with us.—Pr 27:2
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Saying things that not true. This one not only mean lying to people, it also mean saying things to fool them. Even small lie can still spoil our name and make people to not trust us.—Ec 10:1
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Harmful gossip. That running chay-chay poley about other people private matters or saying all kindna lie-lie things about them. This kindna thing dem can bring palava and divide people. (1Ti 5:13)
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Talking out of vexation. This one mean talking any kindna way to people just because they make us vex. (Eph 4:26) And it can bring bad feeling.—Pr 29:22
Play the VIDEO “Put Away Things That Can Spoil Peace—Short Part” Then ask this question:
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Wetin you learn about how the thing dem we can say can easily spoil the peace in the congregation?
To see how they wor able to make peace, watch the video “Try Hard to Keep Peace.”
8. Congregation Bible Study
(30 min.) bt chap. 25 ¶14-21
