Nehemiah : WK 5 - 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(S)
What is one of your favorite songs of worship, hymn or contemporary, and what is it about that song that speaks to and uplifts your soul so much?
HEAD
HEART
HANDS
Every faith community needs more workers/volunteers “in the field” for the harvest. As Jesus said, the harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. this week, pray for each of our Crosswalk communities. Pray to the “Lord of the harvest” for more “workers in the field” to encourage those that have been leading and volunteering, and to make an even bigger impact for the kingdom of God.
LIVING WORDS FOR YOUR WEEK
“The harvest is great, but the workers are few. So pray to the Lord who is in charge of the harvest; ask him to send more workers into the fields…
Luke 10:2, NLT
“…And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
Matthew 28:20b, NLT
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(S)
What is one of your favorite songs of worship, hymn or contemporary, and what is it about that song that speaks to and uplifts your soul so much?
HEAD
- Read 2 Corinthians 4:7-10, Nehemiah 4:10-23 together and share any wisdom, insights, or thoughts that come to you from the reading? What stands out?
- In the 2 Corinthians passage, Paul speaks to trouble on every side, perplexed, hunted, knocked down. As the Jesus movement was growing, what brought this opposition? How do you think a follower of Jesus facing these challenges day after day was able to keep going, some even to their death holding on to their belief in Jesus?
- Paul said the life of Jesus can be seen in our bodies through the way we live in and die. How do you think people come to see Jesus in us?
- Notice again in Nehemiah 4:6-9, how quick the people are to prayer. Knowing that for many of us, prayer is sometimes the last resort, what are some ways we could seek to make it our first?
- Then comes burnout. What does Nehemiah try to help the people do, in verse 14, to encourage them to keep going?
HEART
- Paul suffered much for the sake of Christ, as did many in the early church. Ho were they able to hold on to Jesus through it all?
- Are there season in life you find yourself praying more than others? What are those seasons and why do you think that is? Are there ways we could help each other pray and lean on God more often as a community?
- How do we break cycles of negativity in the church?
HANDS
Every faith community needs more workers/volunteers “in the field” for the harvest. As Jesus said, the harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. this week, pray for each of our Crosswalk communities. Pray to the “Lord of the harvest” for more “workers in the field” to encourage those that have been leading and volunteering, and to make an even bigger impact for the kingdom of God.
LIVING WORDS FOR YOUR WEEK
“The harvest is great, but the workers are few. So pray to the Lord who is in charge of the harvest; ask him to send more workers into the fields…
Luke 10:2, NLT
“…And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
Matthew 28:20b, NLT
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