LIFE WITH | WEEK 1
Life With - Week 1 - You Have One Job
Life Group Discussion
Introduction:
What is one idea or principle you hope to learn throughout this series of Life With?
If you won the lottery, what is the first thing you would buy?
Read John 1:38
Jesus looked around and saw them following. “What do you want?” he asked them.
2. The pastor said that Jesus asked this question because “We are what we want”.
What makes this statement true?
How is this statement also true in how we approach our relationship with God?
Read Proverbs 4:23
Above all else guard your heart. For everything you do flows from it.
3. How do you picture God in your mind?
How did you arrive at this perception?
How does this perception of God affect how you approach Him?
4. We talked about 4 approaches to God...
1st Life From God: God is the cosmic vending machine just there to give us what we want.
Is asking God for something wrong?
Have you ever been in a relationship where the other person was just looking to get something from you?
Was it a healthy relationship?
2nd Life Over God: You control God. Because you have him all figured out, and you believe everyone should relate to God as you do and vice versa.
When was the last time God did something unexpected in your life?
What makes our relationship with our heavenly Father unique?
3rd Life Under God: You try to earn God’s love by doing all the things you believe he wants you to do.
What is one thing you can do to make God love you more?
How can legalistically following the rule keep you from a real relationship with God?
Read Matthew 11:28-30
28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”
What do these verses tell us about the problem of legalism and the freedom Jesus offers?
4th Life With God: Simply being with your heavenly Father.
Read John 15:5a
I am the vine. You are the branches. Abide in me, and I in you.
How would you define abide?
According to this verse what is our one job as followers of Jesus?
Read John 14:5
“I am the vine; you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.
How do we sometimes over complicate the relationship of following Jesus?
What is one thing you can do this week to adjust your approach and just abide with God?
How can this group pray for you?