Questions for week February 16th - 22nd

I Love My Church

Love People

Luke 10:25-37

1) Just for Fun: Give everyone a sheet of paper and have them pair up and write down as many songs with the word “Love” in the title that they can come up with. And if you could not think of any, click here to see 565 of them. Also, you may want to give some chocolate to the ones who named the most songs.

Read Luke 10:25-37

2) Why do you think Jesus chose to include a priest, a Levite, and a Samaritan as characters in this story?

3) Reread verse 29. What do you think is the real question the Jewish lawyer was asking?  The Jewish lawyer wanted to do only what he had to do when it came to loving people. Have you ever found yourself doing the same? Why do you think we have a tendency at times to give our least to those in need of it the most?

4) What natural motivations make it more easy to act like the priest and the Levite than like the Samaritan?

5) How practical was the Samaritan’s approach to the man in need? Do you have a tendency to over complicate Loving People? 

6) Compassion moved the Good Samaritan to action. What things are you compassionate about that move you to action?

7) If you have a Good Samaritan story in your life, (where you have been blessed by a Good Samaritan or you have been a Good Samaritan), share your story with your life group.

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Questions for week February 9th - 15th

I Love My Church

Love God

1) Just for Fun: Give everyone a sheet of paper and have them pair up and write down as many songs with the word “Love” in the title that they can come up with. And if you could not think of any, click here to see 565 of them. Also, you may want to give some chocolate to the ones who named the most songs.

2) How would you answer someone if they asked you what it means to love God?

3) Whose life would you say is great example of Loving God passionately, personally, powerfully and intelligently? Which of those four ways to love God are you strong at? Which are you striving to grow more in?

4) One fruit of Loving God is trusting God completely. Think about a painful or hard situation you are going through right now or have gone through recently. How do you think completely trusting that God is in control and is trustworthy would change the way you look at your circumstances? The way

you behave? Or the way you perceive God?

5) Another fruit is to share Christ courageously. Who shared Christ with you courageously? Who are some people that you know you need to share Christ with?  (As you close your time together, pray for one another to have the courage to share Christ courageously with those who need Him.)

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Questions for week February 2nd - 8th

Step Up Step Out

1) Just for fun: We are one month in to 2014, if you made any New Year’s resolutions, share how they are going.

2) Share about the last time you took a huge step of faith believing for God to bless it? What was the outcome? 

3) What are some reasons people don’t live a life of greater faith and purpose? 

4) What would your family and friends say is the driving force of your life? What do you want it to be?

5) How would you encourage someone who is struggling to believe for God to do great things for them, in them, and through them?

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Questions for week Jan 26th - Feb 1st

When Pigs Fly
Part 4
Breaking impossible Addictions

1) Just for fun: Go around the room and share something you have never done but would like to.

(You can also scroll down and go through the questions from the previous messages from When Pigs Fly)

2) We will only conquer what we are willing to confront. Why do we sometimes find it so difficult to confront our problems and addictions?

3) Read Philippians 3:13-14 in a couple different translations. What "from your past" could Satan use to cause you to live life in reverse, focusing on the past? What steps do you take, or have taken, to prevent your past from becoming your present again?

4) Does it sometimes seem like you are at the mercy of your emotions? What tends to be the triggers that set off your emotions? How do you conquer them instead of letting them conquer you?

5) We know that God is a God of the impossible. Why do you think we find it easier to believe He will do the impossible for someone else but struggle to believe it for ourselves?

Close your time with your group by reading Mark 9:23 "All things are possible to those who truly believe" to your group and encourage them to continue to believe that THEIR pigs can fly too!

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Questions for week Jan 19th - 25th

When Pigs Fly
Part 3
Overcoming Impossible Offense

1) Just for fun: What was the high point of your week?

You can scroll down and go through the questions from Weeks 1-2 of When Pigs Fly if you have not met since the series began.

2) Pastor Mark shared about the little things that offend like not getting the curtesy wave when letting cars in traffic.  What are some of the little things offend you?

3) Do you try and look at others through God's lens? How has this helped you with dealing with offense?

4) If we were labeled based on our past, what would your label be? How has God changed you to who you are now?

5) Who are some of the people who you misjudged, and after getting to know them, you realized they were nothing like you had preconceived? What was it that caused you to think they were something they actually were not?

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Questions for week Jan 12th - 18th

When Pigs Fly
Part 2
Restoring Impossible Relationships

1) Just for fun: Did you make any New Year's resolutions?  If so, what were some of them?

If you have not met since When Pigs Fly, you can scroll down and go over Part One's questions.

2) Have you ever had an impossible relationship that has either been restored or is in process of being restored? What were the first steps you took toward healing?

3) Of the 7 instructional steps to healing impossible or broken relationships, which one is easiest for you to do?

#1. Always talk with God before you talk to the person.
#2. Be willing to take the initiative.
#3. Focus on their feelings, not just the facts.
#4. Confess your part of the conflict.
#5. Assess and adjust your attitude.
#6. Be willing to give up so the relationship can grow up.
#7. Always strive more for reconciliation than resolution.

4) Which one of the steps listed above is the most difficult for you to do?

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Questions for week Jan 5th - 11th

When Pigs Fly
Redefining Impossible

1) Just for fun: Did you make any New Year's Resolutions? If so, what were some of yours?

2) What is the thing that represents the impossible for you?

3) Has there been a time in your past when God gave you a dream that seemed impossible and you reasoned yourself out of believing for it and working toward it?

4) Has there been a time in your life that God gave you a dream that seemed impossible and you believed God anyway and it came to fruition in your life?

5) What is your tent, that thing that you possess that God is asking you to no longer trust in but trust in Him instead (Ex. your money, your intellect, etc.)?  What has been the hardest part about not trusting in those things anymore?

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