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) Share a time when you were anxious about the future. How did you manage it, and how would you do it differently today?
2) Read together the Micah 5 prophecy and discuss some of the reasons why Jesus is our Peace. What stands out most to you about who the Messiah is to be?
3) In Matthew 6, Jesus encourages us to seek first the Kingdom of God. What is God’s Kingdom, and how do we seek it first?
4) Share something that you feel competes with Jesus coming first in your life.
5) Take some time in your group to be still and invite the Holy Spirit to speak to you and move in your life. Perhaps He will remind you of a verse in a timely moment or provide supernatural peace during a trying season. Also, be sure to share with others how you intend to pursue Peace this Christmas despite those things that are competing for priority.
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”.