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Life Group Discussion Guide :: Sunday, October 7, 2012 (JXG)
Sandy Lake Wesleyan :: Pastor Shawn
iLive: Got an App for That | Week 7 (Wrap)
Remember, this Guide is not intended as an exhaustive list of what can be discussed, but is best used as a guide to help your Group process what God is teaching them. Read through the discussion points below and prayerfully consider what the Holy Spirit would have you work through.
Be sure to pray for, encourage each other, and share the victories God is giving your Group.
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As part of our worship gathering this morning, we celebrated Communion as brothers and sisters in Christ all over the world were doing the same. How should the fact that we are a Global Body of Believers change the way we pray, act, and serve? How can this global reality be reflected in your time together as a Group?
Today was the ‘wrap’ Sunday for the iLive series--what are some of the insights or key points the Holy Spirit has brought to mind during this time in the Word together? In what areas were you affirmed? Challenged?
Here are the questions we were left with each week during the series:
“Who (or what) is ordering my steps?”
“What is your next step for physical and spiritual fitness?”
“Who are you looking to to ‘decode’ the things of this life?”
“In what direction are you launching your anger?”
“What would I do...if the most significant thing about me was my relationship with God?”
“What is God calling us to in relationships?”
Which of these was the hardest to answer? What significant next steps did you sense God calling you to take that your Group members can be praying about on your behalf?
Read Acts 5:3
What do we learn about how Satan seeks to direct our steps and influence our lives away from God?
If “filling communicates access,” how would Ananias have given Satan access to his heart?
How can we do the same thing?
Read Matthew 6:19-24
What are ways we are tempted to serve ‘two masters?’ What role does our heart play in this temptation?
Why do you think Jesus talked so passionately about ‘light’ and ‘darkness’ in this Scripture (remember: ‘light’ is often a metaphor for truth and holiness; ‘darkness’ is often a metaphor for lies and evil)? How does that inform the temptation to serve two masters?
Pastor Shawn talked about some of the tools the enemy uses to move us to a place of disobedience (six D’s)—what are they?
Deception :: Doubt :: Discouragement :: Despair :: Diversion :: Delay :: Defeat
He also shared a cycle these “D’s” bring us into that we get stuck in: isolation :: fear :: victim mentality
Share a bit of how you’ve experienced the enemy trying to get you ‘stuck’ using these tools?
We can feel isolated, afraid, and a ‘victim’ in our relationship with God—but it especially happens in our human relationships and in our connection to the Church… what should our reaction be when we (or people we know) fall into this way of thinking?
Satan is the “father of lies”—what are some of the lies he uses to get us into those places of isolation, fear, and being a victim?
We were asked the question, Who’s agenda are you following by the permission you’ve given?
What answer immediately came to mind? How can you and your Group members pray for each other that you would give the right permissions to the right people?
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