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.
Understanding God’s Word: Know and Understand the Truth
READ Luke 2:8-20
- Why might encountering the glory and presence of the Lord cause people to feel fear? Why would the shepherds need to be told, “fear not…?"
- Why is the message that the angel gave to the shepherds such good news for them and all people?
- What was the shepherds’ response when they encountered the good news that the angels brought to them?
Living and Applying God’s Word: Give a Vision of Life With God
- What would happen if the people of our church lived out their lives like these shepherds did?
- Why does Scripture tell us that the greatest life we can experience here on earth is found by those who are worshippers of God rather than those who worship the things of this world?
Assessing the Heart: Identify and Address Sin
- Worship doesn’t just take place on Sunday mornings, and worshippers aren’t just found in churches. Every person who has ever lived is a worshipper, whether they recognize it or not. Anyone can identify what it is that they worship, they just have to take a look at what they put their time, money, thoughts, energy, and hopes into.
- Beyond God, can you identify anything else in your life that you may, in fact, be worshipping?
READ Romans 1:18-25
- This passage highlights that something is severely wrong when people know about who God is and what He has done, and yet give themselves in worship to things other than God. Why is worshipping and serving creation rather than the Creator such a grievous sin?
- What does this communicate to God when we call ourselves Christians, yet give ourselves more fully to things other than Him?
- What does this communicate to non-believers when we call ourselves Christians, yet give ourselves more fully to things other than God?
Turn to God: Confess and Renew Belief in God
- Why is the goods news that the shepherds were told about a Savior, the same good news for us: people who have been alienated from God because of their sins and misplaced worship?
- Knowing that in Christ we have been forgiven and restored to God, what would it look like for us to practically respond this week? What can we learn from the shepherds’ response?
- What are ways that we can share this good news that we have received with the people around you this week?
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