rGroup Blog

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.

Opening Question:  

How has your mom’s (or another mom’s) walk with Jesus highly impacted your life?

[See if anyone’s answers line up with the 5 sermon points: Give love, hospitality, service, spiritual gifts, glory to God.]

Understanding God’s Word: Know and Understand the Truth

READ 1 Peter 4:7-11

•    Briefly summarize the message of this Scripture.

•    What does this passage tell us about who God is?

•    What does this passage tell us about ourselves? 

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

  

(7) Why is it so important to always be focused, urgent, alert, ready, disciplined, etc.? 

How should our important mission affect our lives?

See the two commands after “therefore.”

(8) Why is “showing love” the “most important of all”?

How has someone else showing their love turned you to God?

How did Jesus act towards those against him?

(9) What’s a greatest definition or example of hospitality that you can think of?

Why is it so hard to be hospitable to strangers?

How can our rGroup be more hospitable?

(10) What gift has God given you?

How do you use it to serve others?

What is the general principle that we need to keep in mind as we use our spiritual gift?

What are some spiritual ways of serving Peter mentions from verses 9 and 11?

(11) Why do we serve?

How can our rGroup serve better?

What’s the ultimate goal? (end of verse 11)

Assessing the Heart: Identify and Address Sin

Sometimes, we as Christians can become arrogant and prideful by thinking we are good because we have not done anything really bad in a while. We often think the only way to sin is by actively doing something wrong. However, we can be living in sin by NOT actively doing what God has asked of us.

Which of these actions mentioned in this passage do you do the least?

Give love.

Give hospitality.

Give service.

Give spiritual gifts to others.

Give glory to God.

Turn to God: Confess and Renew Belief in God

When Peter writes this letter, he knows that these things will either make or break the follower of Christ / make or break the church / make or break the mission.

What can you do THIS WEEK to get started on doing the thing you confessed you lacked most?

The greatest encouragement is that doing these things will make you more like Christ!