Leader Sheet 0
How to Teach This Resource Cluster
Orientation to the workbook, visuals, glossary, teaching flow, and Resource Cluster system.
Resource Cluster One
RC1 Leader Sheets
Teaching guides for The Launch of the Church: Wind in the Sails. These sheets are designed to help pastors, teachers, and group leaders present the workbook material clearly, sequentially, and faithfully.
Teaching principle: the workbook provides the doctrinal foundation; the leader sheets guide presentation, discussion, application, and prayer.
Recommended Teaching Sequence
0 How to Teach This Resource Cluster
Orientation to the Fireproof Studies RC system.
1 Promise and Preparation
Before Pentecost: Christ prepares His people.
2 Pentecost and the Birth of the Church
The Spirit is poured out and the church is launched.
3 The Church in Jerusalem
Devotion, unity, fellowship, and prayer.
4 Bold Witness and Miracles
The Spirit empowers witness amid opposition.
5 Peter’s Sermon
The Gospel explained and proclaimed.
6 The Church’s First Steps
Obedience, unity, generosity, and favor.
7 The Message Goes to the World
The Gospel expands beyond Jerusalem.
8 The Gospel Takes Root
Growth, fruit, and new communities.
9 The Mission Advances
Boldness, signs, unity, and growing impact.
10 The Mission Continues
Living as the Spirit-empowered church today.
Leader Sheet 1
Promise and Preparation
Before Pentecost: Jesus promises the Spirit, prepares His disciples, and tells them to wait.
Leader Sheet 2
Pentecost and the Birth of the Church
The promised Spirit is poured out, the church is publicly launched, and the Gospel begins moving outward.
Leader Sheet 3
The Church in Jerusalem
The Spirit-formed church grows through devotion, teaching, fellowship, breaking of bread, and prayer.
Leader Sheet 4
Bold Witness and Miracles
The Spirit empowers bold witness, signs confirm the message, and opposition cannot stop the church.
Leader Sheet 5
Peter’s Sermon
Peter proclaims Christ as Lord and Messiah and calls hearers to repent and be baptized.
Leader Sheet 6
The Church’s First Steps
The early church obeys, shares life together, practices generosity, and experiences God’s favor.
Leader Sheet 7
The Church Takes the Message to the World
The Gospel moves beyond Jerusalem through Spirit-empowered witness, opposition, and open doors.
Leader Sheet 8
The Gospel Takes Root
The early church grows in maturity, bears fruit, and becomes a model of Spirit-formed community.
Leader Sheet 9
The Mission Advances
The church continues in unity, prayer, boldness, signs, and Gospel-centered growth.
Leader Sheet 10
The Mission Continues
A concluding teaching guide on living as the Spirit-empowered church today until Christ returns.