Questions for week November 24th - 30th

The G.Q. – Gratitude Quotient

1) Just for fun: What are your plans for Thanksgiving? 

(If you are life group is meeting after Thanksgiving) What did you do for Thanksgiving this year?

2) Is there someone you know who has legitimate reasons to be bitter and miserable and yet they aren’t? How has their attitude affected you?

3) Do you know someone who has seemingly “everything” yet they seem to be grateful for nothing? How has their attitude affected you?

4) Luke 6:45 says, “What you say flows from what’s in your heart.” Based on this verse would you say that your words reflect a heart of gratitude or ungratefulness?

5) 1 Thessalonians 5:18 says, “Be thankful in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you who belong to Christ Jesus.”  Why do you think God told us to be thankful? How does this verse make you feel when your circumstances are quite ugly?

6) As we move through this week of Thanksgiving, what are some of the things that you will be most grateful for?

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Questions for week November 17th - 23rd

Trinity

Jay Porter

1) What is your favorite part of Thanksgiving? What do you look forward to the most?

2) How have you planted a seed this week (Pastor Mark shared this in his message "Conspiracy of Kindness”)?

3) What is something you are thankful for?

4) What is one thing that stood out to you in this week’s message?

5) Would you agree that the idea of the Trinity is a little beyond our grasp? 

6) Why is a proper understanding of the Trinity essential to our faith?

7) How does the Trinity apply to our life? What does it mean for us personally?

8) How has the Trinity PRODUCED thankfulness in your life lately?

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Questions for week November 10th - 16th

Conspiracy of Kindness

1) Just for Fun: What food dish do you look forward to enjoying the most at Thanksgiving?  

2) Last week learned about Choosing Worship.  Was there a time last week that you were able to put this into practice?

3) Pastor Mark shared the story about Herbert Hoover and how in Finland, to Hoover means to be kind or to offer assistance and support, to be benevolent. If people were to make a verb out of your last name, what would you want it’s definition to be?

4) Who is the most generous person you know in the world today? Why would you describe them in this way?

5) Most people say that if they win the lottery they will be more generous but statistically this just isn’t true. Why do you think so?

6) What idea, phrase, scripture, or story from Sunday’s message has changed your understanding of generosity? In what way has your understanding been changed?

7) What is something you can do this next week to plant Gospel seeds?

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Questions for week Nov 3rd - 9th

Choose Worship

1) Just for fun: Share with everyone the best thing that happened to you this past week.

2) How do you think most people define worship?  How would you define worship?

3) Who do you know that can find something good to focus on even in the worst of circumstances?  Who do you know that can find something bad to focus on in the best of circumstances?  Which one of the people you mentioned do find has the best relationships with God, family, and friends?  What can we learn from this and how can we apply that knowledge remembering that Worshippers can always find something to praise God about and Complainers can always find something to be down about?

4) When Paul and Silas worshiped, it not only changed their attitude, it changed their circumstances.  Can you name a time in your life where either your attitude, or attitude and circumstances, were changed due to your worship?

5) How can you incorporate more worship into you life this next week?

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Questions for week October 27th- November 1st

Masquerade
Part 3
Hiding our Hurts

1) Just for fun: Since Halloween is days away, a good ice breaker for your meeting would be to play the How Well Do You Know Your Candy Game here.  

If you have not met since Masquerade began, we encourage you to go through some of the questions in the previous weeks found here (Part 1) and here (Part 2).

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 the Masquerade Series?

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Questions for week October 20th - 26th

Masquerade
Part 2
Hiding from Ourselves

If you have not met since Masquerade began, you can scroll down and use the questions from Part 1 as well as the ones from Part 2.

1) Just for fun: What is the most memorable costume or Trick or Treating memory you have? (This is the same question from last week's questions. Most likely you have not met since last week to have already asked this one.)

2) Mark said in his opening, Sometimes the more you are convinced you are right, the more you could actually be wrong. Our defensiveness could be a real clue to our self deceitfulness. Do you know someone right now who is deceiving themselves into believing they are not dealing with an issue when in fact you and everyone else can see they are?  Why do you think they can't see it when so many can?

3) Have you ever come to the realization that you too had been deceiving yourself regarding an issue you denied or ignored?  How did you respond to your revelation?

4) In order for us to stop deceiving ourselves we need to hear, know and be transformed by truth.  Has someone spoke a truth to you that was about you to help change you?  (This question is similar to #3 but #3 is about you coming to a realization and this question is more about someone else coming to you with a realization about yourself.)  Did you receive what this person was saying or did you think they were being irrational?

5) Is there something in your life right now that you would have the courage to drop your mask and confess to your life group that you know is an area God is dealing with you to work on in your life?  Is there anything your life group can do to support you as you face this challenge?

Close your time today, as Mark encouraged in the message, with Psalm 139:23, "Examine me, O God and know my mine; test me and reveal my thoughts.  Point out anything in me that offends you, and lead me in the path of everlasting life."

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Questions for week October 13th - 19th

Masquerade Part 1

Hiding from God

Genesis 2

1) Just for fun: What is the most memorable costume or Trick or Treating memory you have?

2) Pastor Mark showed us three of his masks in this message, Holy Mark, Happy Mark, and Handle it Mark, what masks can you admit to wearing? Why do you feel you have had to wear them?

3) One thing that drives us to wear masks is shame that is brought on by sin.  Do you know someone who is living this right now or has in the past?  How is/has their sin causing/caused them to mask who they really are?  What lessons can you learn by watching their life?

4) Have you experienced a failure that the shame of it began to define your life?  How have you been able to break free from it no longer letting the failure to define your future?

5) On a scale of 1-10 (1 being the lowest and 10 being the highest) how did you rate yourself on the question of where you are in your relationship with God and how intimate you are with him?  Remember, you don’t have to cover your sin and shame because God has covered you with Jesus.

Pray with your group that you would all deepen your relationship and intimacy with God and learn to drop your masks through this series.

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