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 a moment and reflect on your own experiences in community. What a positive or negative way that has shaped how you view God?
2. Are you currently walking in community? If not, why not? If yes, what fruit do you see in your life?
3. Take a moment and read Acts 2:42-47, the early church was together, they were experiencing deep koinonia fellowship. Who can you invite to walk out koinonia?
4. What might God be inviting you to shift in your life so you could be open to experiencing community that transform you and others?
5. Take some time and reflect over the way the Bible talks about community–the trinity, in the Old Testament, Jesus and disciples, the early church. What stands out to you in those stories? What was comforting? What provoked strong feelings? Ask God to help reveal to you ways you can grow in your formation by utilizing the gift he’s given in community.
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”.