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:
Take a minute and pray as a group for God to speak to you as we read these letters. What does he have for your group? For you individually? For MBIC?
1. Take time to read Isaiah 65, this chapter is a prophetic look at the end of time. How does this chapter help you understand God and how he describes himself in Rev. 3:14?
2. Doc spoke about Laodicea’s notoriety, prosperity, ingenuity, tenacity and identity, reflecting on all you learned as he preached, how does that change the meaning of what Jesus says in Rev. 3:14-22?
3. The people of Laodicea lost their vision, vitality, and values. Where are you personally? If you have lost one, or would lose one, which one would go first? Take time to reflect and share.
4. We don’t like to be disciplined, or experience any sort of suffering, yet the Bible talks about God using discipline to bring us back ot him. Can you think of a time God disciplined you in love? What was that like?
5. Where in your life is God knocking on your door? What needs to be opened to his love?
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”.