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) Discuss as a group how you were taught about healthy sexuality growing up. What helpful things set you up well, what unhealthy things tripped you up?
2) Reading Proverbs 5 together, how relevant and helpful does Solomon’s warning/encouragement feel, as a parent helping a young adult Son? How close is it to what you received or gave?
3) Name some of the harder conversations that exist for you and your family in the area of sexuality, and discuss how scripture/proverbs 1-9 may, or may not be, a helpful guide for those conversations.
4) How do you see a healthy sexuality being helpful to witnessing to the world about who Christ is? What does that look like in your own life? How have you seen people be a poor witness and what did you do with that?
5) Prayer is a powerful response, take some time to write down some border topics for prayer for your group, the church and the community.
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”.