Galatians 5:14-15

For the whole law can be summed up in this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” 15 But if you are always biting and devouring one another, watch out! Beware of destroying one another.

Proverbs 12:18

Some people make cutting remarks, but the words of the wise bring healing.

Ephesians 4:29

Don’t use foul or abusive language. Let everything you say be good and helpful, so that your words will be an encouragement to those who hear them.

Who Do You Want To Be?

A Person Who Finds Faults

Proverbs 21:19

It’s better to live alone in the desert than with a quarrelsome, complaining wife.

A Person Who Deals Hope

Romans 15:13

I pray that God, the source of hope, will fill you completely with joy and peace because you trust in him. Then you will overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit.

2 Corinthians 13:11

Dear brothers and sisters, I close my letter with these last words: Be joyful. Grow to maturity. Encourage each other. Live in harmony and peace. Then the God of love and peace will be with you.

Life Group Questions:

1. Who are you most critical of?

2. What could your criticism be destroying?

3. Who can you start dealing hope to in your family? How will you do that?

4. Who can you start dealing hope to in your work/school?

5. What encouragement can you share with someone in Life Group? What’s something positive you’ve noticed about someone else in group?