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Life Group Questions   1.  What was your main takeaway from this week’s teaching on brokenness?   2.  Pastor Rob talked about some causes of a broken heart: ·     Abuse (Verbal / Physical / Sexual) ·     Loss ·     Neglected / Rejected ·     Failure ·     Betrayal   Which of these have you experienced victory over and how can you use that testimony to bring someone else closer to Jesus?   3.  One...

Life Group Questions   1.  What is “The year of the Lord’s favor?”   2.  Pastor Ryan said, “So many Christians only experience half of their life in God.” They focus only on receiving from God and miss opportunities every day to minister to others. Described the last time you ministered to someone.   3.  Read Col. 1:27. People all around us have been devastated by circumstances in life. Their only...

Life Group Questions 1. What was the main thing you pulled from this relationship principle? 2. Share a time when you did not believe the best about someone and how it affected your relationship with that person.  3. Pastor Rob talked about relationships being our church's thing. Do you remember when you first walked in grace? Share how you felt and how you are mirroring that for others in our chu...

Life Group Questions   1.  In your own words, what is the First-Word Principle? How does it help maintain and grow relationships?   2.  Read Matthew 18:15. This verse provides five key points about resolving personal conflicts. What are they? Please discuss. 3.  Do you recall a situation in your life where you were seemingly the last person to know about someone having a problem with you? If you c...

Life Group Questions 1.   What are some of your biggest personal takeaways from the relationship principles series so far?   2.  Why is it important for our church to remain in unity? Bonus question: What are the key bible verses for this series?   3.  In week one, Pastor Ryan taught the faithfulness principle. What is the faithfulness principle and how does will this challenge you moving forward?...

1. What spoke to you the most in this message? 2. Being planted in church, going to church, reading your bible, praying, and worshiping are things Pastor Rob mentioned to help secure your mask and allow you to breathe in God's spiritual air. Which one of these do you need to work on? Explain.  3. Being an example for others to follow doesn’t have to be a scary thing. We are not perfect and that’s...

Life Group Questions   1.  If I want to increase my ability to hear God’s voice, I must learn to cherish the word of God. What does cherish mean to you in this context? Do you cherish God’s word? Why or why not?   2.  Three ways that the word of God supercharges our ability to hear God’s voice are: ·     It tunes your spirit ·     It establishes you in foundational truths ·     It defeats the devi...

Life Group Questions   1.  Pastor Ryan compared hearing God’s voice to fine-tuning a transistor radio. What was your biggest takeaway from this illustration?   2.  Hebrews 10:19-20 says, “…we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, through His flesh…”   What does this mean and why is this REALLY g...

Life Group Questions:   1. Share an example from your life of when you tested what you heard from God.   2. The first test Kasey shared was to filter out the impurities. Through sorrow, loss, sickness, pain, offenses, doubt, discouragement, temptation, & personal desire we filter God’s voice through our tainted human perspective. Does this ring true for you? Have you experienced this before? Expla...

Life Group Questions 1.   Do you Journal? If so, why? If not, what’s holding you back?  2.   Pastor Rob mentioned 4 benefits of journaling: ·      It separates the hearing & the testing ·      It occupies your mind ·      It serves as a reminder ·      It keeps the message pure Which one(s) do you relate to the most and why? 3.   God’s words are always perfect. Our interpretations of what He says...

Life Group Questions 1.     Has God ever spoken to you through a dream or a vision? Tell the story. How did you know it was Him?   2.     Pastor Ryan said, “We need to hunger for & earnestly desire to hear God’s voice.” On a scale from 1-10, how hungry are you to hear God’s voice?   3.     In Acts 16:9-10, God calls an audible in the middle of Paul & Luke’s missionary journey through a vision give...

Life Group Questions 1. We know that God is always with us and wants to help us in our time of need, but many Christians live life like functional atheists; running around as if God doesn’t exist. Why do you think that is? 2. Read Psalm 46:10. Is this easy or difficult for you and why? 3. Omarr shared three steps for getting still: - Remove all outer distractions - Deal with your physical body - Q...

Life Group Questions 1.    On a scale of 0 to 10 (lowest to highest), how would you rate your ability to recognize the voice of God before this teaching? (0 means that you never recognize His voice; 10 means that you almost always are certain about recognizing His voice.) 2.    The big idea of this teaching is that God’s voice sounds like a spontaneous, intersecting thought. a.    Discuss what thi...

Life Group Questions:   1.  From Genesis to Revelation, we read numerous accounts of God speaking to people. Why do you think Christians today don’t experience back and forth conversations with God?   2.  Have you heard God’s voice before? If so, tell the story and explain how you knew it was Him.   3.  Jesus says that His disciples should know, hear, and obey His voice. How does this challenge yo...

Life Group Questions 1.  "It's a get to not a got to." What does that phrase mean to you?   2.  Every person is presented with numerous opportunities daily to choose how they will respond. Do you generally respond with a “get to” attitude or “got to” attitude?   3.  Pastor Ryan shared the four reasons why life turns into a “got to.”        -      Doing the right things for the wrong reasons -     ...