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. When you consider God being “slow to anger,” does that match the view of God you grew up with? Why or why not?
2. What examples in your own life would you have of anger that comes from a loving place?. How does realizing God’s anger comes from His love change the way you view His rules or boundaries?
3. We practiced box breathing today to experience how God built our bodies to reset. How can you use that physical reminder when your fuse feels short this week?
4. For you personally, what makes it hard to view God as a “safe Father to run to” when you mess up? How does Exodus 34 challenge that fear?
5. How can we as a community support those who are sitting in the “hole” left behind by fathers who have passed away or who weren’t present? Pause … read the next question.. And then come back to this.
6. How does this impact your relational time with God? Ref Psalm 103
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”.