Learning to Lovewell: WK 2 - GROUP GUIDE

INTRODUCTION
The following is a guide to help facilitate discussion between you and the person you’re studying with or with your Connect Group. Feel free to add, subtract, or change questions to fit the conversation, and pray for the Spirit to lead in all things.

OPENING QUESTION
Where is somewhere you have truly felt the spirit of belonging recently? What was it about that place or experience that helped you feel you belonged?

HEAD

1. Read Genesis 3:8-21, together and share any wisdom, insights, or thoughts that come to you from the reading.
2. The devil’s action wasn’t just about causing us to question God, but separating us from God. Why is isolating us from God such a focus of his work?
3. Who goes in search? Does God’s creation seek him out, or does God seek them out? 
4. What do you think it was like for God to hear that his creation was afraid of him?
5. When God asks Eve, “What have you done?” only he really knows the answer to that question at this time. We understand it better now.  What had we done and what was it going to cause?
6. In order to clothe Adam and Eve with skin, what did God have to do? How is this like the plan of salvation?

HEART

1. Adam and Eve clearly felt shame after choosing to distrust God, which is why they hid. What do you think is the difference between guilt and shame? Are they both bad? Can one be good? Do you think God uses shame or is it a tool of the devil?
2. Do you know that God has been pursing you since before you were born? What does this truth mean to you and how you view God?
3. We love to blame others for what’s wrong with us.  Why is taking ownership an important part of our healing and growth?
4. “You will strike his heal.” God had a plan since before the fall, to save us should we fall. What does this say about God and what does it say about you?
5. You and I belong to God. How do we also belong to each other and seek to create communities of belonging?

HANDS
This week, think of someone in your community who may feel on the outside instead of on the inside. What is something you could do for them this week that may help them feel as if they belong a little bit more?

WORDS TO LIVE BY
1 The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it. The world and all its people belong to him. 2 For he laid the earth’s foundation on the seas and built it on the ocean depths.
Psalm 24:1-2, NLT