8 week bus program

Week #1 

Psalms 126:6 He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.

Psalms 126:5 They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.

Memory verse: Luke 8:11

Luke 8:11   Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

A. Why do we need to plant seeds?

  1. We need plants for food
  2. We need plants to feed our animals
  3. We need plants for oxygen
  4. We need plants for building things, and for shade

B. Why do we need to plant the seed of God?

  1. We need to obey Gods Word
  2. The Word of God tells us to
  3. To increase our attendance
  4. To receive blessings from God
  5. If we have Jesus in our heart, then we will want to please God

Week #2   

Memory verse: Luke 8:12

  1. What to do first!
  2. Need to get the ground ready
  3. Break up the ground
  4. Get the rocks out of the ground
  5. Keep the weeds out of the ground
  1. What we need to do to get ready!
  2. Get saved
  3. Break up our hard hearts
  4. Confess our sins
  5. Read the Word of God
  6. Pray! Pray! Pray!
  7. Ask the Holy Spirit to reveal any hidden sin

Week #3

  1. Need to water our garden
  2. Sometimes we must water our plants or they will die
  3. You can give too much and sometimes not enough water

We need to weep over the lost

  1. The Bible says to sow some tears
  2. The Bible says that some are rewarded only by tears

Week #4 

  1. The Seed:          Luke 8:4-15
  2. It’s hard, small, and dormant.
  3. Needs to be in the ground
  4. Birds may eat the seed if on the top of the soil
  5. The wind will blow it away
  6. The rain may wash it away
  7. The sun may burn it up
  8. Needs sunlight
  9. Needs water
  1. The Seed:
  2. Is the Word of God
  3. In order to propagate it must be sown
  4. Holy Spirit brings the seed to life
  5. For nourishment, it needs prayer & reading the Word of God

Week #5 

A. Weeds                      Matt. 13:24-30

  1. Grow in any kind of soil
  2. Weeds will choke our good plants
  3. Some weeds look like the plants
  4. Weeds grow, even without water
  1. Weeds:      Reasons to be careful of the weeds
  2. False preachers, and evangelistic music
  3. Reading material
  4. Friends
  5. Family members
  6. To days trends and fashions

6.    Language and actions

Week #6 

  1. Fertilizer:
  2. To much of it could hurt or kill the plants
  3. Not enough gives you poor quality
  4. Water helps to activate the fertilizer
  5. Fertilizer:
  6. Reading God’s Word is our fertilizer
  7. Prayer is our water
  8. Obeying God’s Word makes us grow

Week #7  

A. Baring Fruit  Luke 8:15          John 15

  1. good strong vine
  2. husbandman  (someone to weed the vine of bad branches)
  3.  branches
  1. Baring Fruit

1.Jesus is the vine

2.God is the husbandman

3.We are the branches

Week #8 

  1. Baring more fruit

1.stronger branches

2. healthy branches

  1. Baring more fruit

1.We are strengthened through Gods Word (abide more in the vine)

2.God takes care of us for bearing fruit