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LIFE GROUP DISCUSSION GUIDE
Wednesday Night, August 16, 2006
“I Often Reason Things Out with My Feelings Rather Than the Facts”
20 Minutes - OPEN
Welcome
Beginning a New LIFE Group Season
* Organization Issues
* Dreaming of What It Can Be
* Becoming a Growth Group
* Commitment to One Another
* Let’s Birth a New Group
* Make a Covenant
Submit it to the Lord in Prayer - 5 Minutes
Give everyone in the group a minute to think about the decisions you have each made this week. Allow for everyone to share as to whether they would characterize themselves as being someone who makes decisions with their head or their heart?
15 Minutes - DIG
Belief determines behavior! As a Christian, it is essential that we develop a spiritual perspective on life. God’s Word gives us guidance for every facet of our lives. As our faith matures, we make decisions on the big and small matters of life from a spiritual perspective. Do you believe this?
Paul says in Ephesians 4:23-24 that we “be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.”
In your group, discuss how we must allow God’s Word and the presence of His Holy Spirit in our lives to be such a powerful force in our lives that decisions that we make are not just emotional, but ones made out of conviction, truth, and integrity.
Read 1 Corinthians 2:-16. Mine the depths of this text.
What is the place of the Holy Spirit’s work in our lives as we become followers of Christ who allow the “wisdom from the Spirit” to be the guiding force in our lives?
15 Minutes - REFLECT
Describe the transformation of heart and mind that you have experienced in your Christian life that enables you to make right and wise decisions in all aspects of your life.
How would you characterize the decisions you are called upon to make where you react from a “worldly point of view?”
Even when spiritual change happens in our lives, we will occasionally slip and allow our human logic and feelings to dictate our thinking, decisions, and actions. When we act on pure emotions and make wrong decisions, describe how our conscience works to convict us and prompt a Christ-like behavior (i.e., offering an apology to someone we’ve wronged; confession to God of our wrong thinking, etc.).
5 Minutes - CLOSING PRAYER
Submit these matters to God!
Allow several in the group to voice a prayer of confession and a petition for help to the Lord on these matters.
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