1. ACE Men’s Bible Study
WELCOME!
Fall Semester
2014

2. ACE in a Nutshell
• ACE Goals:
• An Encounter with God that you NEVER
Recover From…
• Regardless of your “spiritual maturity”
•A life forever CHANGED!
•A life spiritually ENERGIZED!
• A Different Person by Semester’s End
•True change from the inside out…

3. Reflecting on the Year…
• Gospel – the power of God for salvation to all who
believe
• Gospel brings the future (co-heirs with Christ), into the
present (gift of the Holy Spirit), as a result of the past
(resurrection)
• You are not just a ‘rescue project’, rather God saving you
for a purpose
• Seek God, find your calling, live the adventure!

4. Reflecting on the Year…
• “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the
conviction of things not seen” Hebrews 11:1
• God’s sovereignty is our assurance, God’s word is our
conviction. Faith bridges the two.
• “For we walk by faith not by sight” 2 Corinthians 5:7
• If we walk by sight we trust in ours or others experiences,
but if we walk by faith we trust in the revelation and
authority of God.

5. Reflecting on the Year…
“It is for us as it is for soldiers, who come home on
leave from the front but who, in spite of all their
expectations, long to be back at the front again. We
cannot get away from it any more. Not because we
are necessary, or because we are all that useful to
God, but simply because that is where our life is..”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Re: His decision to return to Germany
(Later hung as a traitor)

6. Reflecting on the Year…
• Consider three time horizons:
• New Year’s Eve
• First day of your retirement
• Death bed
• Look back over the summer and year to date..
• How is God impacting your life?
• What is He teaching you? Revealing to you?
• Is it clear what/where He is calling you?
• How are you living out Philippians 1:27?
“Let your manner of life be worthy of gospel of Christ..”

7. Reflecting on the Year…
• Jesus didn’t develop a plan nor did He cast a vision…
• He sought His Father’s Will
• Every time we choose to pursue our own vision instead of God’s Will,
we are choosing our thinking over God’s sovereignty
• The world functions by vision, God’s people live by revelation
• Vision is something we produce, revelation is something we receive
• The primary role of spiritual leaders is NOT to achieve our goals,
rather to accomplish God’s Will
• “Only let each person lead the life that the Lord has assigned to him,
and to which God has called him”. I Corinthians 7:17

8. Reflecting on the Year…
“Now unto Him who is able to do far more
abundantly than all that we ask or think,
according to the power at work within us, to
Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus
throughout all generations, forever and ever.
Amen”. Ephesians 3:20-21

9. ACE Men’s Bible Study
Fall Semester
2014