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. The Greek word for “walk” (peripateo) means your ordinary, daily routine, while “led” (ago) means being guided like a sailboat in the wind. How does this change your view of the Holy Spirit? Are you trying to drive the ship, or are you catching His wind? (Gal 5)
2. Read John 15:4–5 and Acts 2:42–47. If apart from Jesus we can do nothing, why do we treat the Fruit of the Spirit like a moral checklist instead of a byproduct of staying connected to the Vine?
3. Think about the car illustration from the sermon (wanting it until you see the price tag). In our culture of comfort, what is the specific “price tag” or worldly comfort you hesitate to give up to be fully filled by the Spirit?
4. If “conviction of sin is just a dashboard sign” that we’ve stepped out of stride with the Spirit, why do we usually respond with guilt and condemnation instead of just turning back to our Helper?
5. Look at the area of your life where you feel the most weighed down, exhausted, or stuck right now. How can you practically hand that specific “yoke” over to the Helper this week instead of trying to fix it in your own strength?
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”.