Lifegroups provide a loving, challenging, and supportive environment for you to grow in your faith and be motivated in loving and serving God in your life. They are meetings where you can expect to encounter God and experience the Holy Spirit in a personal way. You can meet anywhere at any time – be creative and enjoy Loving God, doing Life together & bringing Life to others.
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Practical ideas:
Leaders notes:
Icebreakers: e.g. What is your favourite: movie? holiday destination? Hero?
General questions: e.g. How is everyone doing? How is life on a 1-10 scale?
Specific questions: e.g. What is 1 highlight and 1 lowlight from this week?
Personal questions: e.g. What has God spoken to you about this week?
Personal testimony: e.g. Each week 1 member to share their testimony
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Practical ideas:
Ask everyone to bring a verse of praise/thanks
Play a worship song or sing together
Pray and invite the Holy Spirit and wait on God.
Leaders notes:
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Practical ideas:
Leaders notes:
Pray each week for one friends or family who don’t yet know Jesus.
Share stories of ‘brave moments’ when you’ve shared the gospel with someone
Invite someone to church, plan a letter-box drop, collect $ or items for a gift giveaway
Practical ideas:
Leaders notes:
How has God answered prayer from the previous week?
Break into two or three’s for prayer.
Ask God for a word of prophecy for each other
Lay hands on the sick and pray for healing
What practical needs are there that you can respond to?
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The SOAPbox
The Sermon
Ask one person to speak for 1 minute total: share 1 SOAP Scripture they’ve read in the last week that spoke to them, what they Observed about it, what they have Applied or intend to Apply, and then conclude with a Prayer.
What did God speak to you about through this week’s message? www.dunedin.elim.org.nz

L IVE W ITH A G OD -P ERSPECTIVE
READ: Adam suggested that in greeting people, ‘How do you do?’ should be replaced with ‘How do you see?’ Not all perspectives, not all ways of looking at things, are equally true. As the specsavers adverts suggest, there is such a thing as a right way to look at things and a wrong way to look at things. Living with a God-perspective means looking at everything through the lens of Jesus.
Q. What difference will it make if a person has a true perspective, a God-perspective, as they go through life?
1. You gain a God-perspective by pursuing grace and truth
READ: John 1:14
READ: In situations of misinformation and when dealing with people who exhibit manipulative behaviour (slippery customers), it is difficult to know how to best relate to such people. Looking at this through the lens of Jesus means that pursuing grace and truth is key to living with a
God-perspective.
Q. Have you ever dealt with people, in the workplace or in another setting, where their actions and their words don’t add up? Have you ever felt that you were being manipulated?
Q. What difference do you think pursuing grace and truth would mean in these situations?
2. You gain a God-perspective by practising with-ness with Jesus
READ: What set Jesus’ disciples apart was primarily their with-ness with Jesus. “Jesus appointed twelve that they might be with him and that he might send them out to preach…” (Mark 3:14)
In other words being comes before doing, indeed doing for Jesus comes out of being with
Jesus. The disciples’ first aim in life was to be with Jesus. It is the same for us. Yes that leads to doing, because God’s blessings for us are never meant to stop with us (we are blessed to be a blessing), but the call to be-with-Jesus, is paramount.
Q. What does with-ness with Jesus mean to you? Do you practise regularly this with-ness with Jesus? If yes, how?
Read 2 Corinthians 12:1-10
Q. What God-perspective did Paul gain in this passage? (v9-10) What difference do you think this made in the apostle Paul’s life?
Q. What role did Paul’s with-ness with Jesus play in gaining this perspective?
Q. Is there any connection in your experience between your with-ness with Jesus, and living with a God-perspective?
Conclusion
Q. What situation in your life do you need a God-perspective on? Pray into this with and for each other.
EXTRA on Islam – Link to useful and recommended articles by Mark Durie http://blog.markdurie.com/2014/12/individual-jihad-comes-to-australia.html
http://www.biblesociety.org.au/news/christians-respond-jihad-truth-love
Further Resources look up Islam on: http://www.dunedin.elim.org.nz/resources.html
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