Questions for week Dec 30th - Jan 5th

Maximizing the Moment

1) Did you make any resolutions at the beginning of 2012?  Did you succeed in keeping them? 

2) In what areas do you feel you have grown in this past year?  In what areas do you hope to grow in 2013?

3) What are some of the promises God has given you that have already come to fruition?  What do you feel was your “part of the job” in seeing them come to pass?

4) When thinking about your promises that you are still waiting for, of the six instructions listed below, which one is the easiest for you to do and which one is the hardest for you to do and why?

-Believe fearlessly

-Live intentionally

-Associate strategically

-Commit faithfully

-Embrace new opportunity

-Trust God completely

5) What are you looking forward to the most in 2013?

6) What are some of the things you as a Life Group can do together that you wanted to do in 2012 but never did?  Start planning those things today.

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Questions for week Dec 23rd-29th

Hark the Herald Angles Sing

1) When you were a kid did you believe in Santa Clause?  If so, what led to your revelation of who Santa really was?

2) What was the greatest gift you have ever received either as a child or an adult?  What was the greatest gift you were ever able to give?

3) What led to your spiritual birth? What has the gift of new life through Christ meant to you?

4) In what ways do you express your gratitude to Jesus for the new life He has given you?

5) Who in your life doesn’t yet realize the true reason for Jesus’ birth?  What can you do to share it with them this Holiday Season?

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Questions for week Dec 16th-22nd

Away in a Manger

Regarding the Carol:

Away in a manger,

No crib for His bed,

The little Lord Jesus

Laid down His sweet head;

The stars in the heavens

Looked down where He lay,

The little Lord Jesus

Asleep on the hay.

1) In your opinion, how does this carol reflect the love of Christ?

2) What does this carol show you about our Lord at the beginning our His life here on earth?

3) Why do you think God chose for his son to be born in a manger instead of a birth fitting of royalty?

Regarding the Sermon:

1) What thoughts come to your mind when you hear the word surrender?  Do you feel the word is a negative word or a positive word and why?

2) In point #1, The Problem of the partially surrendered life, Pastor Mark posed these questions… What have I not fully surrendered to Christ? What area of my life do I still try to constantly control? What area do I consistently resist giving to God?  When pondering the answers to these questions concerning your own life, why do you feel is it difficult to fully surrender that area of your life?

3) God does not give us laws and instructions to bind and limit us.  He gives us these things to liberate us.  Share something in your life that you fully surrendered to God that resulted in you walking in true freedom.

True satisfaction is only found in full surrender to Christ.

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Questions for week Dec 9th-15th

O Come All Ye Faithful

1) It took the Wise Men an extraordinary amount of time and expense to get to where Jesus was so they could worship Him.  How have you too invested time and expense to worship God through giving of yourself?  What more would you like to do for God?  What do you feel is the greatest hindrance of accomplishing this?

2) Think of someone that you feel has a high appraisal of God.  What is evident about their life that allows you to draw this conclusion? 

3) It is possible to go to church each week and learn Bible verses and never truly serve God.  Church and Bible Study is great but it should lead you to deeper levels of worship, fellowship and relationship with God.  How has attending church and studying the Word of God deepened these areas in your life?

4) True worship confronts us with a pivotal question, Who is Lord?  Are you struggling with anything in your life that you haven’t allowed Christ to be the Lord over?  What do you feel holds you back from being able to allow God to be Lord over that area of your life?

5) We seem to have a greater hearts desire to worship God during the month of December more than any other time of the year.  What can you do to continue that same spirit of service, generosity and worship as you do during the holiday season?

God’s true value to us is reflected I our level of commitment to Him.  

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Questions for week Dec 2nd-8th

O Holy Night

1) We learned Sunday that even in Bible times the world experienced weariness. Mary, for instance, traveled miles through the desert on the back of a donkey while 9 months pregnant. What do you think gave Mary hope in the weariness we know she had to experience throughout all her pregnancy?

What has given you hope and the ability to rejoice when weariness invades the landscape of life?

2) Everyone would probably agree that there's a big difference between what we need and what we want. Describe a time when you were dealing with weariness that God gave you just what needed instead of what you really wanted.  How did you respond?  And did you discover that what God gave turned out to be even greater than you thought it could? Please explain.

3) Read Hebrews 10:23 in a couple different translations. How does that verse of scripture land on you?

4) What was your main take-a-way, or what ministered to you the most, from Sunday's sermon? 

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