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LIFE GROUP DISCUSSION GUIDE
Wednesday Night, September 13, 2006
“Mission”
5 Minutes - Welcome / Prayer
5 Minutes - OPEN
When you think of “missions” what comes to your mind? What experiences in your life can you identify as opening your eyes to missions, or helped you really gain an awareness of God’s mission in the world?
How would you assess your current sense of urgency associated with our mission as the church? Activity?
15 Minutes - DIG
Matthew 28:18-20 has to remain one of the cornerstone scriptures of the church, part of our mandate for missions in the world. It’s one of those scriptures most of us have running below (perhaps too far below!) the surface of our minds, imbedded into our understanding of the church.
Have a fresh reading of it tonight in your group, and take a moment to discuss what this small bit of scripture means. Can you gain any fresh insight from an old text?
Luke 19 has much to say about our sense of mission. What can you understand about mission from Jesus’ interaction with Zacchaeus, and the parable that follows immediately after it? In what way might these two stories be connected?
As Jesus body, the church should be connected with the same mission that Jesus was connected to. In Luke 19 we have one explicit statement about that mission…what other things can we learn about our mission by things that we either see Jesus doing or hear him saying?
15 Minutes - REFLECT
This past Sunday evening we devoted time as a church family to note the activity of God at work in a particular part of our church, the youth ministry mission trips. What about you lately? Where can you give testimony that you have seen God at work around or through you in the past few months?
How can we develop a church culture that helps feed each other’s passion for mission? In other words how can we develop a passion for mission over the entire landscape of our church, from our children, singles, young couples, empty nesters, teens, and seniors? What is your part in creating such a culture?
Why do we let our overall purpose slip from our minds?
5 Minutes - CLOSING PRAYER
Part of the difficult work in a subject like this is to “downshift” our big, overall mission into small, practical, achievable missions. Much like a military war must be won by achieving a number of much smaller objectives, so it is with the church. End by encouraging each other to take on small “missions”, bite-sized contributions to our overall goals. Can you name some of those smaller missions? End by praying over such efforts.
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