LIFEGROUP STUDY
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.
Fellowship - We are committed to doing Life together.
Practical ideas:
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
Leaders notes:
Worship - Connecting with God personally & corporately.
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:
Mission – Intentionally sharing Jesus with others
Practical ideas:
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
Leaders notes:
Ministry - We serve, in the power of the Holy Spirit.
Practical ideas:
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?
Leaders notes:
Discipleship - Committed to following Jesus and leading others to Him
The SOAPbox
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.
The Sermon
What did God speak to you about through this week’s message?
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LIFEGROUP STUDY
JESUS CULTURE 3 – HEAD, HEART, AND HAND
Read Mark 1:16-20
Q. In brief, discipleship is about following Jesus. According to this passage, what is
involved in following Jesus?
Q. What does it mean to be a head, heart, and hand Christian? Would you agree that
the only kind of Christian is the head, heart, and hand Christian?
READ: A disciple of Jesus is a person committed to becoming like Jesus in their being and doing.
That includes living in moment by moment fellowship with God (see John 5:19). Frank Laubach
made this a major goal of his life. He said: “Can I bring God back in my mind-flow every few
seconds so that God shall always be in my mind … I choose to make the rest of my life an
experiment in answering this question.”
READ: Giving advice on how to make progress in this aspect of becoming like Jesus, Laubach
said: "All during the day, in the chinks of time between the things we find ourselves obliged to
do, there are the moments when our minds ask: 'What next?' In these chinks of time, ask Him:
'Lord, think Your thoughts in my mind. What is on Your mind for me to do now?' When we ask
Christ, 'What next?' we tune in and give Him a chance to pour His ideas through our enkindled
imagination. If we persist, it becomes a habit."
Q. How are you doing at cultivating a constant fellowship with God, a constant
awareness of relating to God? Is this something you desire to grow in?
For practical advice on how to grow in this see the sermon Taking Off the Headphones:
http://whchurch.org/sermons-media/sermon/taking-off-the-headphones
READ: Matthew 7:24-27, and Psalm 95:6-11
(FYI the events referred to in Psalm 95 are described in Exodus 17:1-7 and Numbers 20:1-13
[probably two separate events with major similarities]. Both are referred to in Hebrews 4:6-7)
Q. According to these passages, how important is it to follow Jesus with our head,
heart, and hands?
Q. And what is the danger of not obeying God’s voice when He speaks to us? How
real is this danger?
READ: Author Dallas Willard said: “Becoming Christ-like never occurs without intense and wellinformed action on our part.” Willard also said: “Transformation of character comes through
learning how to act in concert with Jesus Christ. Character is formed through action, and it is
transformed through action, including carefully planned and grace-sustained disciplines.” A
crucial part of that action is to act on the gold that God gives us when He speaks to us. His
voice is more precious than gold, and certainly more valuable, and so central to being a
Christian is to look for the gold, and then follow with head, heart and hand when He speaks.
In small groups of 2 or 3:
Q. What is God saying to you, or what has God been saying to you recently? What
did you do about it, or what are you doing about it?
Q. What experience have you had of teaching others, perhaps a person you have
disciple or are discipling, to look for the gold? What happened?
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