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. Examine the list of gifts and make comment on the gifts that you see in you or family members. Prophecy, Serving/helps/hospitality,Teaching, Exhortation, Giving, Leading, Mercy
2. What of these gifts do you see in each other around your group? Feel free to take some time and share what you believe you might be or a simple prayer request for help with that journey.
3. What would it look like to encourage each other’s gifts to be in use even more inside your family or small group? What does that look like for a family of young Children vs Adult children?
4. Read Romans 12:1-8 In response to this call to action by Paul to do these things take some time to discuss the role of unity and the gifts, what does disunity look like? And what are the benefits of unity of the gifts?
5. Where else do you see these gifts in operation in scripture? Do you see them in use by those who don’t follow Jesus?
6. Finally, do you know an unbeliever that possesses some inherent gifts that you could encourage or pray for? Take some time to pray for those folks as a group. Isn’t it exciting to see God’s fingerprint in those that have yet to follow Him?
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”.