Study Guide for Week of November 21, 2021
This Week Reading: Luke 5:1-11
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 Nothing Else (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 step in your life is Jesus calling you to make?
I. I. Part One: Fulfilling Your Potential Requires a Personal Encounter with God – Verses 1-7
Key Concept: Jesus sees you not as you are but as you can be – he created you for His purpose
Key Verse: Psalm 139:13 and 16 For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed body;
all the days ordained for me were written in your book
before one of them came to be.
Community Group Application: See everyone in your life with Jesus' eyes
I. II. PartTwo: Fulfilling Your Potential Requires You to Deal with the Sin Issue in Your Life– verses 8-10a
Key Concept: God’s future will never come to us at the cost of our character – Erwin McManus
Key Verse: 1 Corinthians 1:26-29 Brothers and sisters, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. 27 But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. 28 God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are, 29 so that no one may boast before him.
Community Group Application: Understand that your potential is released not by self-effort but by humilityI.
Fi III Part Three: Fulfilling Your Potential Requires You to Take the Next Faithful Step – verse 10b - 11
Key Concept: Your true potential or destiny always involves building Jesus' Kingdom with who you are – your abilities, opportunities and experiences.
Key Verse: Luke 16:10 “Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much.
Community Group Application: Take the next faithful step todayII. 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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