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. Sam asked the question in his sermon, “ever wonder how much better life would be if our government and those in power shared our values and passed laws to enforce those values?”, can you relate to that question?
2. Are you living like Jesus is king, holding all authority in our daily life?
3. Vs. 8-10 in this passage show that Jesus promises us protection, not power. Yet, everything in our American culture says we have value when we hold power. What are steps you can take to actively disengage from power, and move to embrace a simple life of obedience?
4. God’s word to the church at Philadelphia, and us in Manheim, is to hold fast (vs. 11). What are you doing to hold fast?
5. Take time as a group to share how you can let your weakness be evident for all, as a witness that you are fully accepted by God.
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”.