1. Have you ever been not invited to something and it was hard to understand? 2. Talk about a time when you knew it was clearly God’s grace at work in you life. 3. Talk about a time when you observed someone’s life ‘burning down’. How would you handle it now? 4. Who in your […]

1. Who was a good model of acceptance that you have observed in your life? What did that look like? 2. In your church experience, have you met the older brother? What did that look like? 3. Read Galatians 5:1-6. Do you think you are living as free as this text implies you ought to? […]

1. Share a story of a time you were lost. 2. What is one thing you would turn the house upside down to find? 3. When you think of God’s unearnable love for you, how does that settle in your heart? 4. Who in your life has loved you as God does? 5. What did […]

1. Share with the group about a significant answer to prayer you’ve had in the last three years. 2. Share with the group about a quiet answer to prayer that has proved to be more significant than it seemed at the time God answered it. 3. Share with the group the kind of flawed counsel […]

1. Whose approval or acceptance  matters most to you, on human level? Why would up pick them? 2. The person whose approval  or acceptance we need most actually has some measure of power over our life. In your case, is that handled with grace and care and love? 3. Talk about a time when someone […]

1. What did you hear on Sunday? 2. Have you ever felt that a kind of fear in your life that God might be mad at you over something? 3. Who are the friends in your life who have “carried you to Jesus” when it was necessary? 4. Who is someone you have helped carry to Jesus? […]

1. Who in your circle or relationships models what you think is the life of a sound and devoted disciple of Jesus? Why them and what are the things that stand out that make you think that about them? 2. When was a time you thought God was speaking especially to you? What do you […]

1. Have you ever encountered an experience where your only conclusion was that it had something to do with “spiritual darkness” of some sort? 2. What book or what person has been most helpful to you in understanding spiritual warfare issues? 3. What does it mean for you that “God has your back!” 4. Have […]