The Original Small Group

[ColporteurK]

Quote: Do you remember when the Sabbath School attendance card used to ask how many missionary contacts had been made as well as how much literature had been distributed. In those days having the answer that question was an incentive to do more personal missionary work that we are doing now.

I wish we  would resurrect the Sabbath School in all of its aspects of years gone by.

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This was dropped before I joined the church in the early 90's. I think that in most churches ( in the NAD) so little was being done by that time regarding personal literature work and personal Bible studies that it was embarrassing especially to church leaders. Then there was the ultra sensitivity about people being uncomfortable about doing nothing. Added rationalizations are/were "not everyone has the gift and we witness by our life." Yes, not everyone is so talented so as to be able to leave literature in a shopping cart, in a public restroom or at their table with a tip at a restaurant. According the  Spirit of Prophecy every believer is called to scatter our literature. The only out on this is if one is an unbeliever.

[newbie]

seems that this is still a good way to start out a lesson for the week...

[Ed Sutton]

Pay Dirt 

http://documents.adventistarchives.org/Search/Pages/results.aspx/Results.aspx?k=Sabbath%20School%20quarterlies

random quarterlies

  http://documents.adventistarchives.org/SSQ/SS19190101-01.pdf

   http://documents.adventistarchives.org/SSQ/SS19421001-04.pdf   

  http://documents.adventistarchives.org/SSQ/SS19511001-04.pdf

   http://documents.adventistarchives.org/SSQ/SS19690701-03.pdf 

Notice these are PDF's you can save copies of, e-share, print out, use to do an SDA Heritage Sabbath School Program - etc  ( even use as adapted handouts to follow up on and - create a branch Sabbath School in any chosen neighbourhood . )

[ColporteurK]

 Perhaps the truly original small group was a group of two, Christ and another. Today we were flying back from the General Conference session in Texas, all six of us. My wife was complaining a bit because the airline switched our seats to give some with  $$$ preference. We were all split up as a family. I asked my wife if she had considered that perhaps God did that to place us next to those on the plane we could witness to ? She kind of brushed it off. In the plane she was able to switch seating with others and pulled pretty much all of the family back together except for me. I was seated right next to a lady in her late 40s and several rows ahead of the family. The lady was reading a book. As an short opener I asked, " Is it a good book?" She replied that it was about the south and the history of slavery. I commented, kind of like " Roots?"  "Yah, she said, "could say that." After while it came out that she had gone through the Baptist seminary and her husband was currently on a mission trip in Kenya.  She asked where we were flying from and what was our work? I replied that I sell he Bible Stories. "Oh", she said," I have read through that set as a child with my family and we read them cover to cover three times. Those are great books." I later commented at our church is big into publishing and we publish the Bible Stories. I wanted her warm attitude toward the books to be transferred to the SDA church and therefore our message.  She said she gave birth to her children in an SDA hospital because there were not abortions performed there. She asked several questions about SDA beliefs and responded well. We talked about health. Long story short we talked non stop for 2 hours. I asked if I could have prayer with her and she was very touched as I prayed for her husband and grandchild.

     At one point my wife walked up with my subway veggie sandwich and I replied that I was not hungry. Did not want to waste any time eating and the 2+ hours went by very quickly. Sweet conversation and what I proposed to my wife might be a possibility was exactly the case.

[newbie]

      At one point my wife walked up with my subway veggie sandwich and I replied that I was not hungry. Did not want to waste any time eating and the 2+ hours went by very quickly. Sweet conversation and what I proposed to my wife might be a possibility was exactly the case.

Jesus was not hungry either after revealing Himself to the woman at the well