Small group discussion notes - 23-29 January 2022

If you weren't at the live service this past Sunday you can listen to the sermon here.

Welcome (Community)

Catch up after the long break.

Worship

Play this video and pray.

Word (Discipleship):

Scripture reading: Nehemiah 8:1-10

1. As you read the text together, what gets your attention/stands out for you?

2. On a scale of 1 (terrible) to 10 (daily) how is your personal reading of Scripture?

3. How do you approach Bible reading, or put differently, what do you do? Read and move on? Read and reflect? Read and journal? Read and re-read and make it your own for the day? Etc.

4. Share with the group any helpful tools/websites/apps you use for Scripture reading.

5. SUPER IMPORTANT! - What can the group do to help you be more disciplined in your Scripture reading? and even more important, assist you to read the Bible in a way that feeds you (not fast food☺)?

Works (Mission)

Once this week, share with someone a passage of scripture, or something you found helpful in Scripture.

Children’s address:

Do this object lesson.

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Small group discussion notes - 5-11 December 2021

If you weren't at the live service this past Sunday you can listen to the sermon here.

This will be our last small group notes for the year, as most groups will be taking a break over the holidays.

Scripture reading: Ephesians 5:1-20

Discussion questions:

1. Brent’s big question: What does it look like to imitate God?

2. Walking in love is the ultimate imitation of God. Where at the moment do you need God to help you love?

3. How would you respond to someone who asks you to help them figure out God’s will for their life?

4. You find yourself in a conversation with someone claiming to be Christian but sharing views on say: sexuality, marriage, or family, that are quite clearly contrary to the Bible. How do you handle this?

5. In closing: discuss this quote from Rob Warner’s book entitled “Alive in the Spirit”.

“The great crisis of the church today is spiritual impotence. We cannot serve Jesus with the effectiveness he is looking for unless Christians are once again ‘clothed with power from on high’. This supernatural power cannot be worked up by human effort, nor legitimately avoided by defensive explanations that we have already received the Spirit. We need to humble ourselves before our Saviour ASKING Jesus to fill us, not just once but over and over and over again, with the Spirit of the living God.”