Unseen Series - The Woman With A Dark Past

This guide is a tool to help you facilitate discussion with your rGroup. Use it to lead your group in discovering, owning, and applying God’s Word. This is a flexible tool, not a rigid task list. Follow the Holy Spirit’s lead as you lead your group. You don’t need to ask every question.

Summary: God is inviting us to be men and women from every kind of background that live out faiths that are active, and to embrace the story of our lives in such a way that they might help increase and grows each other’s faith. 

Understanding God’s Word: Know and Understand the Truth

READ Hebrews 11:31 and Joshua 2:1-15

• What about the faith of Rahab stands out or speaks to you? 
• Read James 2:17 — How does this truth reveal itself in the story of Rahab? 
• Why can’t true faith and salvation come through the simple knowledge or fear of who God is and what he’s done?

Living and Applying God’s Word: Give a Vision of Life With God

• What of difference would you see between a church of people that demonstrates their faith only with words VERSUS a church of people that demonstrates their faith with words and action?
• Why is owning and embracing our story such an important part of what it means to be a Christian? (Ex: God has used every step of our journey to make us who we are today, no matter how beautiful or ugly.)
• Who is someone in your life whose story has helped increase and grow your own faith? 

Assessing the Heart: Identify and Address Sin

• What parts of your faith do you know you should be living out, but they never work their way out into action? 
• What part of your past are you trying to bury or hide, that God could actually use to help reach, encourage, and save others? (Leaders: This is a good place for us to take the lead and show humility and transparency.)

      

Turn to God: Confess and Renew Belief in God

• What would it look for us to starting owning and embracing the parts of our stories that produce guilt, shame, or fear?
  • On what basis can we, as Christians, humbly admit to and tell others about our own brokenness and weaknesses? 
• What parts of your story can God use to help others increase and grow in their faith? 

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