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. Take some time to share with the group or write down a moment where you had fear and anxiety about the future. What are the areas of your life that are most likely to have fear? Health, politics, finances, family or maybe something else?
2. Fear of the unknown is common and likely something everyone deals with from time to time, what would you tell someone who is talking to you about their fear?
3. Daniel’s “but God” response in verse 28 could be a model for us to adopt in conversation with others. Why might that be a hard things for us to do? What do you think would be the response from friends, neighbors or people you know if you adopted that response to their moments of fear?
4. Where else in Scripture do we see this model used by believers?
5. What does it look like for us to seek God in moments of uncertainty? Discuss and maybe take some time to do that.
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.
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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”.