Learning to Lovewell: WK 4 - 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 phrase someone younger than you uses that you don’t understand, or a song you don’t get, or a fashion trend that makes no sense to you? Does not understanding mean you aren’t relevant? Discuss.
HEAD
HEART
HANDS
Here’s a challenge for this week: Look at one of the highest grossing films in the last six months and ask yourself why you think people were so drawn to the story? What was it about the stories struggle or outcome that you think people identified with and why? If possible, find someone in your circle who saw it and ask them directly. Then, through this process, spend time in prayer asking God to reveal to you one way you could impact the life of someone around you based on what you learned.
WORDS TO LIVE BY
34 “So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other. 35 Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples.”
John 13:34-35, 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 phrase someone younger than you uses that you don’t understand, or a song you don’t get, or a fashion trend that makes no sense to you? Does not understanding mean you aren’t relevant? Discuss.
HEAD
- Read Mark 3:13-15, John 14:1-7, John 18:33-37, Galatians 5:22-23, Acts 9:1-6, 19-20, John 13:34-35, together and share any wisdom, insights, or thoughts that come to you from the reading.
- How did Jesus model the importance of “being with him” before going out to do things for him? Do you think it was hard for the disciples to “retreat” so much, as opposed to simply retaking the throne in Jerusalem?
- Why do you think Pilate asked the question, “What is truth?” to Jesus when he did?
- How did Paul change so quickly from seeking to stomp out the followers of Jesus, to being one of his biggest cheerleaders? Can you identify with the other Jesus’ followers who were initially scared of Saul/Paul? What about those who were quick to accept him?
HEART
- What are some of your favorite ways to “be with” Jesus? And why do you think Jesus would care more about your withness, than your witness?
- Jesus’ early followers were actually called “followers of the Way” before they were called, “Christians.” Which title do you like better and why?
- So often we seem to focus on fixing people’s behavior, instead of simply leading them to Jesus and letting Jesus go to work in their lives (i.e. fruit). Why is it so much easier to focus on the external behaviors, rather than the internal fruit that leads to external change?
- Jesus said we are to be known by our love. Does how we show his love to others ever change? Has it changed over the centuries?
HANDS
Here’s a challenge for this week: Look at one of the highest grossing films in the last six months and ask yourself why you think people were so drawn to the story? What was it about the stories struggle or outcome that you think people identified with and why? If possible, find someone in your circle who saw it and ask them directly. Then, through this process, spend time in prayer asking God to reveal to you one way you could impact the life of someone around you based on what you learned.
WORDS TO LIVE BY
34 “So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other. 35 Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples.”
John 13:34-35, NLT
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