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:
- Can you share a time when it was hard to share the truth with someone, or hard to hear the truth from someone?
- Discuss John 8 and how this interaction that Jesus has with the adulterous woman makes you feel. Do you feel it is an important example for us today? Why or why not?
- What does it mean to not have even a hint of sexual impurity in our homes in today’s world? What are some things you have tried in the past to accomplish this?
- Which of the four directives from Paul will be the hardest for you to adopt moving forward; As Pastor Bryce phrased them: Love Truth, Speak Life, Guard your heart, Renew your mind? How have you already adopted some of them?
- Please take extra time this week to pray for one another for those things you indicated that you will be wanting to see God work on. Please take time to pray for our community and the needs within it. This is an area of great hurt and division, and we believe God has a plan to restore many relationships in families over this next year.
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”.