Group Discussion & Life Challenge
Use these notes as discussion prompts for your group, or in your personal time with God.
Connect:
Get to know each other. Connect, warm up to each other, fellowship.
Care:
Carry each other’s burdens. Share life’s challenges and practice Soul Care. Pray together.
Challenge:
1) Spend time reading Isaiah 1:12-17 as a group. What’s you initial response to these words of God? Take time to pray and allow the Spirit to bring conviction and direction on how to receive these words.
2) Take time as a group to read Gal. 3:23-4:7, how does your life change knowing you are adopted as a child of God, no longer an orphan?
3) What thoughts and attitudes in your life may God be inviting you to change as you live in your identity as an adopted child?
4) At MBIC our mission is to initiate and nurture a growing relationship with Jesus. What are you doing specifically to help others initiate a relationship with Jesus? How are you helping others grow in their relationship with God?
5) As we enter the holiday spirit, take time to sit with a close friend and consider how you can reorient this season to focus more on God and caring for others.
Clarify:
Does anyone need clarity on something? Are there any big God questions you are wrestling with?
Celebrate:
Celebrate life’s successes and God’s provision. Worship God’s presence. Time to brag about God.
BibleApp
Through the Bible in one Year
Join us in reading through the entire Bible in one year. Each day of this plan guides you through passages from both the Old and New Testaments, allowing you to see connections between the history of our faith, and the fulfillment of God’s redemptive plan. Readings average four chapters in length, so it is posible to do. When you use the YouVersion Bible App, you can even have the app read the Bible text to you – very useful when you are in the car or otherwise occupied with your hand.
All you need to do is click the link to the Bible Plan, which should lead you straight to the Bible app. Your two options are now (1) to read the plan on your own, one day at the time. Or (2) you can make it more fun and rewarding, by sharing the plan with one or more friends, and then even “Talk about it”.