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. Can you share a time in life that felt like the valley of all valleys? A low that made you lose hope, or can you remember someone else in your life that went through a valley and you were able to be there with them?
2. What Scriptures would you use to encourage yourself in a valley? How would you use those scriptures?
3. What other things help you in “Valley times”? Ice cream? Getting together with a friend? Baking? Counseling? Share those things with the group.
4. Hebrews 13 – Be content because… explore as a group this idea of being content and why it helps in the valley. What other scriptures support this idea?
5. Could you share and give examples of what it means that God disciplines those he loves?
6. How does this relate to His Rod and His Staff in Verse 4?
7. What does walking through it look like moving forward? Is God shifting your perspective in any way?
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”.