Harvest Bible Chapel Pittsburgh North

Review:

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Breakout Questions:

My Report Card: Evaluate your health in these subjects. What is your strongest? Weakest? How can you "bring your grade up" in your weakest subject?

1. Faith (1 Thes 3:6,7,10)
    
2. Love (1 Thes 3:6,12)
    
3. Fellowship (1 Thes 3:6)
    
4. Perseverance (1 Thes 3:8)
    
5. Teachability (1 Thes 3:10)
    
6. Hope (1 Thes 3:13)

Review:

1. I can't always PREPARE for trials. (1 Thes 2:17)

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Small Group Questions (Whole Group):
Read 1 Thessalonians 2:17-3:5

1. What is it about trials that make some people walk away from following Jesus (2:17, and see Matthew 13:21)?
    
2. Why do you think Satan hindered (roadblocked) Paul (2:18)? What seemed to be Paul's attitude about this?
    
3. Why did Paul send Timothy to the Thessalonians (1 Thes 2:19-3:3a)? How are YOU being established and exhorted in your faith?
    
4. "Jesus doesn't eliminate all your problems – sometimes He introduces you to new ones." What "new problems" does Jesus introduce a person to? (1 Thes 3:3b-4)
    
5. What was Paul concerned Satan would tempt the Thessalonians to do or not do (1 Thes 3:5)? Have you ever been tempted in this way?

Breakout Questions:

Pray for your group to trust God's purposes in the trials being faced. Pray for one another!

Review:

1. I can't always PREPARE for trials. (1 Thes 2:17)

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Small Group Questions (Whole Group):
Read 1 Thessalonians 2:17-3:5

1. What is it about trials that make some people walk away from following Jesus (2:17, and see Matthew 13:21)?
    
2. Why do you think Satan hindered (roadblocked) Paul (2:18)? What seemed to be Paul's attitude about this?
    
3. Why did Paul send Timothy to the Thessalonians (1 Thes 2:19-3:3a)? How are YOU being established and exhorted in your faith?
    
4. "Jesus doesn't eliminate all your problems – sometimes He introduces you to new ones." What "new problems" does Jesus introduce a person to? (1 Thes 3:3b-4)
    
5. What was Paul concerned Satan would tempt the Thessalonians to do or not do (1 Thes 3:5)? Have you ever been tempted in this way?

Breakout Questions:

Pray for your group to trust God's purposes in the trials being faced. Pray for one another!

Introduction:

Mark Ort - HBCPN Elder

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Small Group Questions (Whole Group):
Read Ephesians 1:1-14

1. What kinds of emotions does being chosen by God as His own possession provoke in you? What sort of active responses should we have, knowing that we are chosen by God?
2. What kind of impact should the concept of adoption have on your prayer life?
    
3. How does being forgiven by God change your attitude about guilt?
    
4. What excites you about knowing you have a heavenly inheritance?
    
5. How does God receive glory by lavishing spiritual blessings upon you?

Breakout Questions:

Pray for one another.

Introduction:

Mark Ort - HBCPN Elder

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Small Group Questions (Whole Group):
Read Ephesians 1:1-14

1. What kinds of emotions does being chosen by God as His own possession provoke in you? What sort of active responses should we have, knowing that we are chosen by God?
2. What kind of impact should the concept of adoption have on your prayer life?
    
3. How does being forgiven by God change your attitude about guilt?
    
4. What excites you about knowing you have a heavenly inheritance?
    
5. How does God receive glory by lavishing spiritual blessings upon you?

Breakout Questions:

Pray for one another.

Guest Speaker - Luke Ahrens

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Small Group Questions (Whole Group):
Read Luke 6:1-11

1. Have you found freedom in fully yielding to the authority of Jesus Christ in every area of your life?
    
2. Where do you struggle with Hardness of Heart?
    
3. Discuss the Solutions to a Critical Spirit:
   1. Do you set your expectations based on God's Word?
   2. Do you discuss your expectations mutually with those close to you?
   3. Have you yielded your expectations to God?
       
4. Who do you need to go to and seek forgiveness from regarding your critical spirit?
    
5. Who has hurt you with a critical spirit? Have you forgiven them in Christ?

Breakout Questions:

Pray for one another.

Guest Speaker - Luke Ahrens

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Small Group Questions (Whole Group):
Read Luke 6:1-11

1. Have you found freedom in fully yielding to the authority of Jesus Christ in every area of your life?
    
2. Where do you struggle with Hardness of Heart?
    
3. Discuss the Solutions to a Critical Spirit:
   1. Do you set your expectations based on God's Word?
   2. Do you discuss your expectations mutually with those close to you?
   3. Have you yielded your expectations to God?
       
4. Who do you need to go to and seek forgiveness from regarding your critical spirit?
    
5. Who has hurt you with a critical spirit? Have you forgiven them in Christ?

Breakout Questions:

Pray for one another.

Why Should I Serve?

Guest Speaker - Laylor Brown

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Small Group Questions (Whole Group):
Read Romans 12:1-8

1. Do you see examples of conforming to the world in your own life? How can you fight against these things and work to renew your mind?
    
2. Which do you struggle with more: thinking too highly of yourself or thinking far too lowly of yourself? Why are both of these harmful and destructive?
    
3. What spiritual gifts has God given to you? How can you use those gifts to serve at Harvest and help others around you?

Breakout Questions:

Pray for one another and the development of each person's spiritual gifts.

Why Should I Serve?

Guest Speaker - Laylor Brown

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Small Group Questions (Whole Group):
Read Romans 12:1-8

1. Do you see examples of conforming to the world in your own life? How can you fight against these things and work to renew your mind?
    
2. Which do you struggle with more: thinking too highly of yourself or thinking far too lowly of yourself? Why are both of these harmful and destructive?
    
3. What spiritual gifts has God given to you? How can you use those gifts to serve at Harvest and help others around you?

Breakout Questions:

Pray for one another and the development of each person's spiritual gifts.

Review:

1. Because I CAN'T please everyone. (1 Thes 2:1-2)

1. ERROR(1 Thes 2:3)

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Small Group Questions (Whole Group):
Read 1 Thessalonians 2:1-8

1. How is people pleasing really a form of "self-pleasing"? In other words, why is people pleasing really about the person doing it more than the people s/he is trying to please?
    
2. What are some ways you have "fear of man"? (Definition: Caring more about what people think than what God thinks, i.e. "people pleasing")
    
3. What are the 5 things Paul lists as "sins we commit when we commit to people pleasing" (v3 & 5)? How can we guard against them?
    
4. Why is "God pleasing" really the way we love people (v6-8)?

Breakout Questions:

How should the church respond to the SCOTUS ruling on same sex marriage? How should YOU respond when YOU are asked about it? Pray for the leadership or our nation and pray for one another!