Soup Kitchen for the Soul combines testimony with a challenging scriptural foundation and follows it with specific guidance on how you can get out of your church and make a difference in your community. Each chapter builds on a Bible story and the author's personal experience, and ends with thought questions, and then action questions. References include specific ways in which you can take action on what you have been studying in the book. This book is suitable for personal or small group study, or could be used effectively by an entire church to transform their ministry. In the introduction Crosby says: «Upon entering Seminary, I was required to serve in the community and begrudgingly accepted my assignment, choosing to serve in a soup kitchen. While serving in the soup kitchen, God revealed himself to me in a profound and miraculous way. It was in restudying the scriptures with this new heart knowledge of God that allowed me to see a message of a mission for His people that we lack a connection with today. I began asking, 'What if … What if I'm not the only one who doesn't understand the whole mission God has planned for us? What exactly are we supposed to be doing? Where in the Bible can we find directives on our missions for God? What if I wrote a book about radically new old ways of doing the gospel?'» Soup Kitchen for the Soul is that book.
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Renee Crosby. Soup Kitchen for the Soul
Soup Kitchen for the Soul
DEDICATION
FOREWORD
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
1. MY STORY
QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION
2. WHAT I DIDN’T LEARN ABOUT. GOD IN CHURCH, I LEARNED. IN A SOUP KITCHEN
QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION
3. DEFINING MOMENTS: THE. CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE. REVEALED IN THE PASSOVER. STORY
THE STORY
KEY MEMORY VERSES
QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION
4. DEFINING MOMENTS: THE CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE. REVEALED IN THE CROSSING. OF THE RED SEA STORY
5. RECLAIM THE PROMISE: STOP LEARNING FAITH; START DOING FAITH
6. RECLAIM THE PROMISE: GOD’S DESIGN TO KNOW HIM
7. DEFINING MOMENTS: WE ARE. A PECULIAR PEOPLE DEFINED BY LOVE
8. DEFINING MOMENTS: WHAT. ARE WE TO “DO” ANYWAY?
9. THE CHALLENGE
10. AWARENESS TRAINING
Appendix A: SUGGESTED BIBLE STUDY READING GUIDE
Endnotes
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THE AUTHOR
Renee Crosby is a Christian with spiritual gifts in teaching God’s word. She is active in her home church and community. She has a desire to inspire and empower Christians, especially the laity, to realize that their modern faith walk can be so much more! She enjoys cooking and doing anything outdoors (except gardening). For some reason she can help people grow spiritually, but with plants? They don’t have a fighting chance. She is currently working on her Master’s degree in theology from Asbury Theological Seminary. She is married with one son and one daughter.
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You see, in the first twenty some years of my Christian experience, I had only come to understand that God’s mission for us was to serve in the Body of Christ with our spiritual gifts. Somewhere in the context of my learning about being a Christian, I had equated serving in the Body of Christ to serving in the church (as in the church building/institution). I had taken several spiritual gifts tests and my gifts were to be used to teach the Body of Christ. The only spiritual gift from those tests that I could see that would require intentional work outside of the church walls was that of evangelism, which I found I didn’t have, with great relief I might add. Can I get an Amen?
So, I thought we had it all covered. Why was I being required to serve in my community? Needless to say, I begrudgingly accepted the assignment and elected to serve in a soup kitchen. Have no doubt that the soup kitchen changed my life and my relationship with this wonderful friend of mine, Jesus.
