INTRODUCTIONThe 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.LITURGIES: Confession & Forgiveness, Process and Patience, Bold Forgiveness, Forgiveness and ResurrectionOPENING QUESTION(S)What…HEAD & H...  Read More

Forgiveness And Resurrection2 Timothy 2:8-11Always remember that Jesus Christ, a descendant of King David, was raised from the dead. This is the Good News I preach. And because I preach this Good News, I am suffering and have been chained like a criminal. But the word of God cannot be chained. So I am willing to endure anything if it will bring salvation and eternal glory in Christ Jesus to those ...  Read More

Bold ForgivenessHebrews 4:14-16So then, since we have a great High Priest who has entered heaven, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to what we believe. This High Priest of ours understands our weaknesses, for he faced all of the same testings we do, yet he did not sin. So let us come boldly to the throne of our gracious God. There we will receive his mercy, and we will find grace to help us...  Read More

Process And PatiencePsalm 32:1-5Oh, what joy for those   whose disobedience is forgiven,   whose sin is put out of sight!Yes, what joy for those   whose record the Lord has cleared of guilt,   whose lives are lived in complete honesty!When I refused to confess my sin,   my body wasted away,   and I groaned all day long.Day and night your hand of discipline was heavy on me.   My strength evaporated...  Read More

Confession1 John 1:5-10This is the message we heard from Jesus and now declare to you: God is light, and there is no darkness in him at all. So we are lying if we say we have fellowship with God but go on living in spiritual darkness; we are not practicing the truth. But if we are living in the light, as God is in the light, then we have fellowship with each other, and the blood of Jesus, his Son,...  Read More

Confession and ForgivenessMatthew 6:9-14Pray like this:Our Father in heaven,   may your name be kept holy.May your Kingdom come soon.May your will be done on earth,   as it is in heaven.Give us today the food we need,and forgive us our sins,   as we have forgiven those who sin against us.And don’t let us yield to temptation,   but rescue us from the evil one.“If you forgive those who sin against y...  Read More