New Normal | Week 1
Big Idea: We are the church, and together we worship and grow so we may go into the world and help others find the same hope we have in Christ.
Getting Started
How are some ways that you have had to learn to connect and communicate with others within the last two years?
What was something you did but didn’t enjoy communicating with others over the past two years?
What did you find useful and continue to use to connect and communicate?
Read: Genesis 1:26-27
Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” So, God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. (NIV)
4. Who else is God talking to in this passage? (Jesus and the Holy Spirit)
God, the father, God, the son, God, the Spirit together lived in community.
5. Since God is a relational God, what does that say about us being created in his image?
The need for community is in our biology and psychology.
Everybody needs somebody
6. Why do we need others?
Read I Corinthians 3:16
Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst?
7. How does this scripture confirm that we are never alone?
When the Bible says, “You are God’s temple,” the “you” is plural. “Y’all” are God’s Temple.
According to the message, what makes us God’s Temple? The Holy Spirit inside of you and me makes us God’s Temple
8. As a believer, where can we go that God is not with us?
When we go out into the world, God goes with us.
This should make us want to act differently than the world without God and live attractive lives.
People will want to know why we are different, and we can begin to build relationships with them.
We can share our story of the difference God has made in us.
We can give them an opportunity to receive Christ or invite them to church to hear the gospel presented.
By investing and inviting, we can change our world together with God’s Spirit in us.
9. How can Jesus become more the center of your conversations with others and not everything else going on around you?
Next Step
21 Day Prayer Challenge
Read Matthew 18:19-20
This is Jesus speaking “Again, truly I say to you that if two believers on earth agree about anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven. For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.”
Prayer is one of the most powerful and yet most unused resources we have.
We ask every owner to join us in praying for the next 21 Days’ because if you do something 21 days in a row, it becomes a habit.
We are asking everyone to pray for something very specific every day. You can find the list at tff.church or follow us on social media. Each day we will have a sample video to guide you in how to pray that day.
We believe God will begin to do amazing things as we pray and go out into the world empowered by his spirit.