Learning to Lovewell: WK 3 - 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
Share with the group a practice or two that you particularly enjoy when it comes to spending time with God. What is that practice? How and when do you do it? And what is meaningful to you about it?
Then, share with the group a practice that has been harder for you and why you think that might be?
HEAD
HEART
HANDS
This week, try a spiritual practice that has been harder for you in the past. Do so to stretch yourself? Spend time learning about the practice in Scripture, do some outside reading and investigating, and try the practice for 7 days. Then reflect on what you learned and whether or not the practice opened you up to something new about yourself, or about God, or about others.
WORDS TO LIVE BY
27 “His purpose was for the nations to seek after God and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him—though he is not far from any one of us. 28 For in him we live and move and exist. As some of your[g] own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’
Acts 17:27-28, 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
Share with the group a practice or two that you particularly enjoy when it comes to spending time with God. What is that practice? How and when do you do it? And what is meaningful to you about it?
Then, share with the group a practice that has been harder for you and why you think that might be?
HEAD
- Read John 15:4-5, 15, James 1:17, Revelation 3:20, Genesis 3:8-9, together and share any wisdom, insights, or thoughts that come to you from the reading.
- Why do you think Jesus used the metaphor of a vine and branches to describe how a relationship with him works?
- James tells us that God never changes, but does that mean that his methods for reaching us never change, or that our understanding of him can’t change? Explain.
- If you have heard Revelation 3:20 before, what have you been taught about it? Did you learn about a God who initiates and pursues us, or something else?
- Why did Adam and Eve hide? God knew where they were hiding, right? So why ask, “Where are you?”
HEART
- When you were growing up, were you taught about how to have a relationship with Jesus, or were you taught knowledge about Scripture, or both?
- How do we remain in Jesus when our lives are so busy and full of noise?
- What are some of the good gifts God has given you lately?
- How do you define shame? Why does it make you hide from the One who seeks you with all his heart? How do we let go of shame?
- Why do you think we, as people, struggle to be authentic with each other? With God?
- God chases after us to restore our broken relationship, and ultimately to bring us back to a place where we will once again walk with him in a garden in the cool of the day. What does that picture and that hope mean to you? What’s one thing you look forward to doing or asking or saying when you do get to walk with him in the garden?
HANDS
This week, try a spiritual practice that has been harder for you in the past. Do so to stretch yourself? Spend time learning about the practice in Scripture, do some outside reading and investigating, and try the practice for 7 days. Then reflect on what you learned and whether or not the practice opened you up to something new about yourself, or about God, or about others.
WORDS TO LIVE BY
27 “His purpose was for the nations to seek after God and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him—though he is not far from any one of us. 28 For in him we live and move and exist. As some of your[g] own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’
Acts 17:27-28, NLT
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