Study Guide for Week of November 14, 2021
This Week Reading: Genesis 6:9-22; 7:1-24; 8:1-22
A. Welcome: Welcome everyone especially new persons and read out loud the purpose of your group
B. Purpose: Our purpose is to spread the Kingdom of God. We do this by multiplying groups of people who care for each as God's family. We begin by inviting new people to our group and building them to be followers of Jesus. Each person here has the potential to be empowered to start and be the leader of a new group and spread God's kingdom.
C. Worship Time: Spend a few minutes singing a worship song. Here is one you may want to use The Goodness of God (or pick your own on YouTube make sure it has the lyrics on the screen)
2. Who did you invite to the group for this week?
G. Opening Question (a simple question to introduce the main theme - called an icebreaker): What different opinions do people have about Noah and the ark?
I. I. Part One: The story of Noah and the people of his time – 8:9-22.
Key Concept: How you live matters to God
because He loves people
Key Verse: Matthew 24:37-39 As
it was in the days
of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 38 For
in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying, and
giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; 39 and they knew nothing about what would happen
until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the
coming of the Son of Man.
Community Group Application: Live ready now
for the day of judgment
I. II. PartTwo: The Flood – 7: 1-24
Key Concept: God requires perfection, and
everyone falls short
Key Verse: Psalm 14:3 All have turned away, all have become
corrupt;
there is no one who does good,
not even one
Community Group Application: Live ready now
for the day of judgement and urgently reach others with message of salvation
I.
Fi III. Part Three: The Recreation of the Earth – 8:1-22
Key Concept: Only with God’s power can we
change our lives and impact the world
Key Verse: Genesis 8:1 But God remembered
Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark,
and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded.
Community Group Application: Live ready and
know that God will rebuild His kingdom through willing vessels
II. I. Word: - read the scriptures above in portions - break it down into smaller portions to read. Read it in portions aloud together several times. (Goal is that everyone understand the Bible story or verses by retelling them in their own words - keep at it until everyone knows the story or verses)
2. Tell in your own words what happens in these verses.
3. What are the details?
5. What details can you add to what others in the group have said?
J. Discuss the following general questions together (Goal is to use these general questions to guide a discussion - the leader should not speak more than 30% of the time - let the group discover what God is saying to them).
1. What catches your attention in these verses?
3. What did you learn about God (Father, Jesus or Holy Spirit) from the story?
4. What do you learn about people from the story?
K. Commitment - Obedience - Application (This is the key - have everyone answer this question):
1. What in specific will you commit to apply in your life from this study?
K. Prayer Time: Break up into smaller groups of 3-4 - groups of the same sex 1. Pray for your group to multiply.
L. For Next time:
1. Ask each person the name of a person they will invite to the group for next week.
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