**Growth Community Questions**

Remember to use these questions like a menu, not a checklist. These questions are not mandated material you have to cover, but options to help guide your discussion as much or as little as you like.

**HANGOUT [Warming Up to the Topic - in one Large Group]**1. Review this week’s teaching and talk about what stood out to you the most.

2. Have you ever felt that God has left you empty handed? Share how difficult it was for you or is for you if you are still feeling “empty handed”.

**HEAR [Listening to God through Scripture]**

3. Read and meditate in the Song of Zechariah:

a) Share your thoughts about the transformation in Zechariah’s heart from the time that the angel spoke to him through the time when he blessed his son.

b) How long is a long wait for you? Practice to stay one hour, one day or one week without speaking. (the use of your phone is a distraction too). Focus on the Lord, seek His presence in you.

c) What is the longest time you have waited or been waiting for a situation to pass by?

**HUB [Making it Personal and Praying Together]**

5. So now what? Share with your HUB the hardest part of waiting for a trial to be solved. What would help you to endure the waiting?