What is one truth about God that you believe your life shouts?
What is a timeless truth about God that you held onto in 2018?
Make an assessment of the rhythms of your spiritual life. What needs to start and what needs to stop in order for you to establish healthy rhythms for your spiritual life?
Review the LFA Faith Declaration. Discuss with a trusted friend how these declarations will become part of the rhythms for your spiritual life.
What is so significant about the name of Jesus as Prince of Peace? In what way does the Bible show us Jesus as the Prince of Peace? In what areas of your life do you desire peace?
Knowing the kind of peace Jesus offers, how committed do you think He is to bring about the peace you desire? In what ways can you join Jesus’ work in spreading/sharing peace?
When Jesus comes and brings everything to light in your life, will His might be for you or against you? Will his arrival be a ‘rising’ or a ‘falling’ for you? Sit with a good friend and talk these question over.
Read 2 Chronicles 27:6. In what ways is this true in your life? Are there any areas that need to change based on this verse? If so, pick one and take one action to affect change in that area.
When Jesus comes and brings everything to light in your life, will His might be for you or against you? Will his arrival be a ‘rising’ or a ‘falling’ for you?
Sit with a good friend and talk these question over.
Read 2 Chronicles 27:6. In what ways is this true in your life? Are there any areas that need to change based on this verse? If so, pick one and take one action to affect change in that area.
1. If Jesus has such a high view of what we can become in Him, why do we consistently keep selling ourselves short? Name 2 ways you sell yourself short.
2, Are there any areas of your life that are either off limits, or have not be submitted (surrendered) to the Lordship authority of Jesus Christ? What are they, and why are they off limits?
1. Which of the two “bookshelf” illustrations do you identify the most? Why?
2. Can you think of a moment when following Jesus brought joy to you?
3. What is a current area in your life where you find it difficult to follow Jesus? And which of the three obstacles considered today may be preventing you from following him?
From what you heard from Pastor Greg what is the purpose of the church?
In what ways have you had a picture of the church that was to small or too limited?
I what ways has God used the church in your growth as a disciple?
From what you heard from Pastor Greg what is the purpose of the church?
In what ways have you had a picture of the church that was to small or too limited?
I what ways has God used the church in your growth as a disciple?
Micah’s view of God was to demonstrate religious effort to gain access to God so that God would do what Micah wanted. Can you see that in the religious culture around us? In what ways have you see that in your life?
Chapter 18 opens with the statement that there was no king in Israel. In the story of Micah and the Danites, what is the indication that there is no King?
C.S. Lewis used the phrase 'men without chests'. A man or person without a chest is a person that operates from their head (reason) and their gut (appetites). They are strategic in their thinking, but what ultimately drives them is their appetite. Their chest would be the place of identifying what they worship, coming under authority and ordering their values. The result is saying no to certain appetites at certain times. So, how is your chest? Is it healthy? What are the areas of your life that are driven more by your gut (appetite) than the chest and the voice of God?
Examine your heart for God. Would you say your heart is alive, numb, or mostly dead toward God? Explain your answer to a trusted friend.
In Samson’s life we see many sinful issues: pride, lust, anger, vengeance, complacency, rejection of God’s call. Are any of these causing your heart to drift from God? If so, make this a matter of repentance and process. Ask God to realign your heart so you rely on Him and live from a heart aligned with the will of God for your life.
In Judges 14, we find the people of Israel very comfortable among the Philistines. In what ways does the story indicate that Samson and Israel have assimilated into Philistine culture, that they are no longer distinct as God’s people?
Why is assimilation into culture so attractive to God’s people? In what ways have you felt that pressure in your own life?
In the story of Samson, what does God do for his people who have assimilated into the culture of the Philistines? In what ways has God worked in your life to rescue you from being assimilated into a culture that is against God?
There are many things Samson did that were empowered by the Holy Spirit, yet his life was filled with compromise. What is the warning you receive from Samson’s life?
What’s one way you would want God to use your life to shape the next generation? Write it down and share it with a trusted friend. Commit to pray over this for 1 year.
What ‘good things’ in your life can you set aside to devote yourself to God? Name them and setup an accountability relationship to help you.
What are the leadership tests in front of you?
In what ways have you said yes to following God into those leadership tests and in what ways have you given your glory to another?
What causes you to lose sight of God?
What are patterns in your life that need to be broken?
Why do you think that second generation, the one after Joshua’s generation was so lost?
Discuss areas in your life where you can identify the reality of both the unconditional and a conditional aspect of God’s promises?
