Product Description
The Heartbeat of KAIROS
Kairos is about time. Not the tick-tock kind of time we are used to living in. Kairos is the beautiful kind of time where God breaks in and changes everything. These are moments when something special happens. They are moments that interrupt our status quo. They are moments when the trajectory of our journeys change forever.
When God breaks in, we must take the change He creates – whatever it may be. We must accept both the work of Christ and the way of Christ. We must trust in what God is doing instead of trying to do it ourselves. And then we must step out in faith and believe that God’s goodness will come in time.
In this series, we will set aside tick-tock time to engage God intentionally and expect him to break into our lives in timeless ways. We’ll be inspired and disturbed. We’ll be encouraged and challenged. We’ll be loved and changed.
The moment is upon us. Don’t you think it’s about time?
This downloadable teaching series includes:
Teaching Materials:
Master Teacher’s Guide
Small Group Leader’s Guide
Gathering Tool
Video Materials:
HD/SD Animated Series Intro Video
HD/SD Animated Series Countdown Video
Promo and Media:
11×17 Poster Art (PDF and JPG)
Screen Slides (Widescreen and Fullscreen)
Letterhead (Word Doc and JPG)
T-Shirt Artwork
Web Banners
Content samples and additional information can be found in the TEACHING GUIDES, SERIES ART, and VIDEO tabs
Session Outlines
Session One :: Time Out
John 6:25-69
The point: Evaluate everything by focusing on the only thing
God is ready to break into our lives. Every moment is an opportunity to observe where God is breaking into your life. The question is whether you will embrace how God breaks in. That’s the question we must answer as we evaluate everything by focusing on the only thing.
Session Two :: Time Bomb
John 8:48-59
The point: Be more by becoming less
We live in a world that tries to be more by chasing power, position, and possessions. But this is not the way of Jesus. So when God breaks into our lives in a Kairos moment, we must choose whether we are willing to follow the way of Jesus by committing to be more by becoming less.
Session Three :: Time Warp
John 15:1-8
The point: Do more by doing less
We run into the trap of doing more because we’re trying to work for things that God is ready to give us. This is not the way of Jesus. Instead, we can work from our identity instead of working for it as we learn to abide in Christ and do more by doing less.
Session Four :: Time Change
Mark 5:21-43
The point: Stop falling back and start springing forward
We are all broken, and we all want healing. But we find that the way of the wounded healer is the way of Jesus. As a result, we look forward to breakthrough by praying for restoration and trusting in resurrection. As we do, we stop falling back and start springing forward.
Teaching Guides
Master Teacher’s Guide [ view sample ]
The Master Teacher’s Guide is designed for use in large-group settings such as Wednesday night gatherings, combined Sunday School classes, summer camps, and other worship gatherings. It contains background information, explanation and application points, opening illustrations and stories, prompts for personal stories, and life-changing Turning Point activities.
Leader’s Guide [ view sample ]
The Small Group Leaders Guide is perfect for use in Disciple Now settings, in-home small groups, individual Sunday School classes, and other settings with one leader and 10-15 students. It contains background information, explanation and application points, group activities, discussion questions, and life-changing Turning Point activities.
Gathering Tool
The Gathering Tool is designed to provide an opening illustration for groups that meet together in a large group before dividing into small groups or Sunday School classes. This will allow small groups to experience the series video and will add to the overall experience of going through the series.
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About the Art
What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There’s quite a lot we don’t know about them.
-Melanie Benjamin, Alice I Have Been, 2010
A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.
-Segal’s Law
There is a time for everything under the sun, and while our lives run their course through the minutes of the day, a kingdom life runs parallel in the minutes between the minutes. The between is where, at any moment, kairos can invade chronos and change the trajectory of our lives forever. The perpetual motion of God’s will, goodness, and grace is always turning, cranking just beneath the surface, setting up the framework for a life designed to propel us deeper into His kingdom. Kairos is always present, always presiding.
Chronos is always present too, tick-tick-ticking away, tempting you to see life through the lens of your circumstances. Chronos is where ecclesiastical moments of joy and suffering are nothing more than moments of joy and suffering. The ever-present momentum of God is easily missed, and the minutes are nothing more than minutes.
When you wear a watch you will always know what time it is, but the question is… which watch, kairos or chronos, are you wearing? And what time is it, really?
-Blake Berg, artist
