The Benefit of Sharing the Benefits of Being God's People

Prayer Helps:
Military:  You should have received your military assignment this past week in your mailbox.  If you didn't I am emailing them to the group leaders.
Fighter Verses:  Trying Psalm 118:5 - 8 to start out your prayer time.  

This week's sermon and discussion time provide a great opportunity for you and your group to talk about God and the amazing gifts we have in Christ.  The mere reading of Romans 5:1 - 11 should stir up some excitement and passion in you and your group members.  And if it doesn't you have some serious heart issues to discuss.


My tips are in red!

A great way to do the first two questions are to have everyone write down their answer and then have individuals read what they wrote to the group.

Read Romans 5:1—11 out loud.  This will really help those who were not in the service because of absence or service.

According to the passage and Romans 5 sermons what benefit’s are there to being God’s people?

This is a HEAD (knowledge) question.  You should have people look at the Bible and find a verse for their answer.

Everyone should have similar answers.

Because of these benefits, what are some practical ways God’s people should live?  Think  attitude change and action steps.

This is a HAND (action) question.  Have people think about really practical, actionable, measurable things.  

How should you live differently in light of these benefits?

This could be used as a HEART (passion) question.  What do I need to desire more in this life, not just this week.  It could connection with the previous question but this would be a more general lifestyle.

On the back of the notes, I put part of our sermon discussion training notes for every to understand the purpose of Soul Care.  You should remind people of the purpose of Soul Care each week.  

Sermon—Based, Life Changing Discussion

Here are some tips the Soul Care leaders learned this summer on how to kill their groups discussion time.

1. Don’t READ THE BIBLE PASSAGE.  While we say our groups are sermon-based, we really want them to be Bible-directed.

2. Don’t MAKE IT PERSONAL.   We don’t want groups to merely share information.  We want them to share life.

3. Always STICK TO THE SCRIPT.  The questions provide a guide for the leaders but the goal is not to get through every question.

Soul Care meetings should challenge each group member to live differently because of what God has done.

You can share on social media how you have been challenged by using
#EBCdiscipleship

Here is the "Banning Bible Studies" link.  

This article is a great reminder of what we are doing in Soul Care.

https://davidwhiting.today/2012/02/banning-bible-studies-northridge-church.html