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:
Take a minute and pray as a group for God to speak to you as we read these letters. What does he have for your group? For you individually? For MBIC?
1. What can distract you from who Jesus is? Aaron listed politics, economics, and pandemics, as things that take away our sense of control. What distracts you from who is truly in control?
2. LIke the people in Ephesus, it’s easy to compromise to what society deems ok. Where are your weak spots when it comes to the way society lives vs how God asks us to behave?
3. How do you determine truth? How do you combat the lies you encounter daily in the news, billboards, music, media, social media?
4. If someone followed you around for the day, would they say you have left your love of God? Or would they notice you have an active love of God? (Note-active does not mean perfect). What would be the actions and behaviors that would demonstrate you have a pure love of God or have left that love?
5. What do you need to remember, repent or return to?
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”.