Mark Your Calendar
- Ladies Bible Study – Sundays @5pm
- Lamberth Baby Shower – Oct 25
- OCC Shoe Box Collection – Nov 15
📢 Announcements
📖 Ladies Bible Study – Oct 4-Nov 22
Join us for Ladies Bible Study on Sundays at 5 PM! We will meet weekly for 8 weeks as we dive into studying the names of God.
If you’d like to participate, please contact Sarah Wiggs to sign up and ask any questions.
We look forward to growing in faith and fellowship together!
🎁 Operation Christmas Child
Eastside Baptist Church is participating in OCC this year. If you would like a box(es) to fill, please see Lori Beal after service, or call/text her at 951-323-1813.
*There is a “gift suggestion” flyer on the back table. You can also click on this link: What Goes in A Shoebox? Or this link: OCC Amazon Storefront
*Each box needs to have a label identifying the sex and age group it’s packed for. Adhesive labels are on the back table
*Shoeboxes will be collected on Sunday, November 15th.
📖 Adult Bible Study – “How People Change”
Real change can feel out of reach, but God is at work in the everyday moments of our lives (2 Corinthians 3:18). Join us this Sunday at 10am for our Adult Bible Study series, “How People Change,” based on the teaching of Paul Tripp. Come as you are, bring your questions, and grow with us—we’ll save you a seat.
👶 Lamberth Baby Shower – Oct 25th
Please join us for a baby shower on Sunday, October 25th at 1pm. All are welcome!
In lieu of a greeting card, please bring a well-loved or brand-new book to help us start baby’s first library. Please sign your name on the inside cover!
The registry is linked below:
https://www.myregistry.com/baby-registry/jessica-lamberth-and-matthew-lamberth-troutman-nc/5629059
Discussion Questions for Stewardship of Life
📖 Biblical Insight
1. The Master and His Servants — Matthew 25:14–18
- What details does Jesus give about the master, the servants, and the distribution of the talents?
- What do the first two servants’ response reveal about how they understood their responsibility?
- Why might Jesus emphasize the servants were given different amounts?
2. The Master’s Evaluation — Matthew 25:19–27
- When the master returns, what does he ask of the servants? What does he not ask them?
- What do you see in the master’s response to the first two servants compared to the third?
- What does the third servant reveal about failure to act on what God has entrusted to us?
3. Faithfulness, Reward, and Responsibility — Matthew 25:28–30
- What does the master’s response to the first two servants suggest about what the master values?
- What does the master’s statement, “You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much,” teach us about the relationship between present faithfulness and future responsibility?
- Why do you think Jesus ends the parable with such a severe contrast between the servants?
🔨Practical Application
1. Steward the Life God Has Actually Given You
- What is something in your life that you need to begin viewing as an opportunity from God?
- How will home, work, neighborhood, hobbies, or schedule become places where you serve God?
- What would change if you viewed each day as something God has given you to invest rather than simply something to get through (or bury)?
- How can we distinguish between legitimately enjoying God’s gifts and using them selfishly?
- Where might God be giving you an opportunity to invest in someone else’s spiritual growth, serve your church, or participate in God’s mission?
3. Faithfulness Matters More Than Size
- Why is it easy to compare what God has given us with what He has given someone else?
- How can comparison either discourage us from serving or make us feel superior to others?
- What is a “small” opportunity God has placed in front of you that you may be tempted to overlook?
- How can our group encourage one another to faithfully use whatever God has entrusted to us?
🪞 Personal Reflection
1. What Has God Entrusted to Me?
- List your time, talents, treasure, testimony, relationships, home, career, opportunities.
- What might change if you consciously began each day by asking, “God, how do You want me to use what You have given me today?”
- Where might “doing nothing” actually be a form of poor stewardship in your life?
- In what area of stewardship are you faithful and encouraged? Where do you need to grow?
- Give one specific thing you can begin doing this week to leverage what God has entrusted to you.
Nursery Schedule
10/11 – Lisa Giles, Gerri Lawrence
10/18 – Haley Nosker, Jessica Lamberth, Charlotte Cha