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. What is one thing that stood out to you from this week’s message?
2. Read Psalm 23 How does the psalmist describe God’s willful activity in providing for his sheep?
3. David describes various actions that shepherds would perform to provide care for sheep. What stands out to you as the most impressive image of God’s care? What might cause you pause to consider how God cares for his sheep?
4. What are one or two ways God might care for his followers today?
5. What does it mean to know that God’s protection and correction of his sheep are part of the process? In what ways might God use his “rod and staff” today for his sheep?
6. Which of the 4 Keys to resting did you find most challenging? And why?
7. Which of those 4 does your group do well – Free from Fear, Love others, Healthy/honest, In the Word. What is holding you back, personally, from experiencing the rest that God desires you to experience? Share and pray.
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.
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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”.