After listening to Pastor Brennan's sermon on loving other with the gospel in our words, check out video #8 in our series and dig into the following questions with your group…Read over the passages referenced in this sermon and make some connections between love and sharing the gospel.Colossians 4:2-61 Corinthians 13:1‭-‬7Mark 12:28‭-‬34As a group, how would we together define “love” and “wisdom,” and describe our need for each, in thought [...]

Setting up the discussion. First of all, please take the time to go over the weekly email. Click here if you missed it.Second, take turns reading through the following excerpt from chapter 13 of Gospel Fluency by Jeff Vanderstelt.  #element-42046ce5-ae4a-4b6f-be38-e0e4e4658cfd .colored-box-content { clear: both; float: left; width: 100%; -moz-box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-box-sizing: border-box; -ms-box-sizing: border-box; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: #0bbab3; pa [...]

There’s a bit of reading to get you primed here. Take turns, going around the circle in your group each reading the paragraphs in succession (yup, even those of you who feel more comfortable keeping quite). ​ #element-ef72478a-f239-42e1-817b-97d07f0ac4cd .colored-box-content { clear: both; float: left; width: 100%; -moz-box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-box-sizing: border-box; -ms-box-sizing: border-box; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: #76cae9; padding-top: [...]

Matthew 26:26-28Luke 22:14-231 Corinthians 11:23-26Thoughtfully read the following excerpts from the Gospel Fluency Handbook together…On the night Jesus was betrayed, he shared the Passover meal with his disciples. That meal commemorated the night when God struck down every firstborn son of Egypt while protecting his people from the same fate. Their protection came through the Passover lambs that were sacrificed and eaten inside homes where the doorposts had been covered with the lambs& [...]

Thanks to Saturate the World for major sections of this study.While the war of the mind is a personal war for everyone, it doesn’t have to be an individual war. It’s helpful to know that the ultimate Helper—God the Spirit—and those in your close community are in the foxholes with you, fighting on the front lines for your holiness. In chapter eight of Gospel Fluency, Jeff Vanderstelt writes: When I am teaching people how to fight with gospel truths, I introduce [...]

This Sunday, Jo Antonio pointed us toward an examination of our own heart and what we love. Jo said that our actions flow from what it is we love, so let’s spend some time digging into this with the help of some questions from the Gospel Fluency Handbook by Jeff Vanderstelt and Ben Connolly.How do you define the word love? Pull out your phones and get some technical definitions. Do you have a more nuanced definition to offer? In what ways do you love according to your definition? In what [...]

In his sermon on the one, true, great, story, Pastor Matt walked through the gospel. This is God’s main narrative, it is the record of him pursuing his people, and the plan he’s had to redeem us all along. Yet so often we get side tracked. The story which provides us with our primary identity as children of God and brothers and sisters of Jesus, this story gets lost in the immediacy of crisis and daily grit. So often we quickly slip back into our default narrative of coping, b [...]

​Looking back over the sermon this week, discuss at least one or two of the following questions with your Life Group. As you discuss, remember your commitment to be honest, and to help each other “grow up in Christ” by “speaking truth in love” with each other (Eph. 4:1-16).What concepts were new, or especially stood out, from this week’s sermon? What was difficult from the sermon? What questions arose for you after thinking it over?As a group, how would we t [...]

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