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. What is one thing that stood out to you from this week’s message or Advent readings?
2. Is the Christmas season busy for you?What is some thing you do now, or you used to do, that helped you keep the season focused and uncluttered?
3. As most tend to be busy, what about the Christmas season do you think makes it more so? What do you think the current generation might be missing when we have too many things going on?
4. Matthew 13:22 uses the phrase “crowded out” or “choked”, many of us have seen a plant that has been choked out by weeds or some even get choked out by their own roots because they are not properly potted. How does this analogy possibly help describe our lives today? What does Jesus offer as a solution to this problem in Matt 13:44-45?
”5. What does the Bible say we should do about busyness?Matthew13:22-23,19:16-22, Matt 6:33, Philippians 4:11-12
6. Be sure to write down the ways you can pray for one another in this season, in particular the ways you could get caught up in the busyness of it all.
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”.