Week 4: How Do I Get There?
Before watching the video, here is a starter question to discuss with your group.
- Share about a time when you thought you knew where you were going, but you got lost. Why did you get lost?
Then, watch the video below.
Before watching the video, here is a starter question to discuss with your group.
Then, watch the video below.
After watching the video, here are some questions to discuss with your group.
1. You hear the words ‘obedience’ and ‘legalism’ a lot in church circles.
– John 14:21
– 2 John 1:6.
– Galatians 5:4a
– Romans 3:20
– 2 Chronicles 7:14
– Malachi 3:10
– Isaiah 55:8-9
– Romans 12:17-19
6. As we wrap up this study – identify some next steps.
7. Consider these quotations from today’s lesson:
End this time with prayer – identify any specific needs within your group and thank God for bringing you to where you are today, trusting Him with what is to come and asking for His help as we seek to follow Him in obedient love.
Before watching the video, here is a starter question to discuss with your group.
Then, watch the video below.
After watching the video, here are some questions to discuss with your group.
1. What have you been taught about God’s ‘specific’ calling on your life? Did you resonate with the teaching today?
2. Consider the stage of life you are presently in? Share your answers to the two questions Rebekah suggested as tools in helping you identify your vocation?
3. God not only gives us a vocation, something we are designed to do best – He also gives us assignments – specific times and specific places to practice the vocation He has given us. Below are a few examples from Scripture:
Identify some ‘assignments’ that you recognize from in own personal life.
4. Throughout the video, Rebekah spoke of working our way through the five-tier funnel of purpose, in order to identify and pursue the specific work for which God has placed you on the planet. Review these five (listed below). Where are you in the process right now? What are some next steps that you will make toward living God’s call on your life? How can we pray for you at this time in the process?
5. As you close today, remember to thank God for His call on your lives, His equipping you to live out your calling, and pray for those specific steps/areas that each one of your group identified as important for moving forward in following His call.
Before watching the video, here are some starter questions to discuss with your group.
Then, watch the video below.
After watching the video, here are some questions to discuss with your group.
1. Take a moment and share to the group what, in the American life, competes for God’s attention (optional: feel free to also share what competes for God’s attention in your own personal life as well). Share the implication that has on the Christian life.
2. Shane shared that, “the true north, the purpose of everything we do, is the glory of God.” How does that feel? What are the implications of this assertion in how you make decisions – about church, family, relationships, jobs, life?
3. The Scriptures mention three ways that we, you and I, can bring God glory. Practically speaking, what could each of the following look like in your own life (look up the attached verses as needed)?
4. Which of these: seeking God in your heart, your speech, or with your actions do you believe God is calling you to focus on for His glory? Identify one thing you can do this week to bring more glory to God.
5. Finish your time together by praising and thanking God for who He is and what he has done in your life to date. Ask him to break down any strongholds and barriers that keep you from bringing glory to God in your heart, your words and in your actions.
Before watching the video, here are some starter questions to discuss with your group.
Then, watch the video below.
After watching the video, here are some questions to discuss with your group.
1. Take a moment and share to the group and identify your ethnic or family background (how do you describe your heritage)? How does your cultural identity impact your life, decisions, priorities or reactions?
2. Read 2 Corinthians 5:16-21. What does it mean to be a new creation in Christ?
3. Discuss what it looks like to live as a new creation in Christ in light of the assertions made by Rebekah in today’s lesson.
4. The Scriptures tell us that ‘in Christ you are’:
Which of these resonate with you most? Which makes you the most uncomfortable? Explain.
5. Identify at least one thing you can do this week to cultivate or enhance your relationship with Jesus.
6. Finish your time together by expressing gratitude to God in prayer for how He’s worked in your life to date, asking Him to continue the transformation process in your life with the renewing of your mind and the deepening of relationships.
7. There is power in agreement! Every day this week, speak the following proclaimed truth that God has already spoke over you and watch how it can transform: