New Year, New You

Announcement: Night of Missions, January 22nd, 6pm, North Campus. (Consider letting this be your rGroup meeting for the week. Talk it through with your rGroup.)

The beginning of a new year is the perfect time to stop and think about where we're going and where we should be going. So let's evaluate our lives, make plans and goals, and live this new year with biblical diligence.

Before we take inventory of our lives and make new goals, let's read Proverbs 21:5 and then John 15:5 to understand why it's important to be diligent with plans and how they become possible.

(You don't have to go through all of these. Choose which questions your group needs most. Decide beforehand which members you'd like to direct the questions to before leaving them open to anyone to answer. Ask one or two people at most to answer the question in front of the group, but ask each person to write their own answer on paper for themselves. Please insert your own wisdom/thoughts/challenges for each question after giving other people a chance to speak.)

1. What's one thing you could do this year to increase your enjoyment of God?

2. What's the most humanly impossible thing you will ask God to do this year?

3. What's the single most important thing you could do to improve the quality of your family life this year?

4. In which spiritual discipline do you most want to make progress this year, and what will you do about it?

5. What is the single biggest time-waster in your life, and what will you do about it this year?

6. What is the most helpful new way you could strengthen your church?

7.  Whose salvation will you pray most fervently this year?

8. What's one thing you could do to improve your prayer life this year?

9. What single thing that you plan to do this year will matter most in 10 years? In eternity?

10. What's the most important decision you need to make this year?

11. What's the most important need you feel burdened to meet this year?

12. What habit would you like to establish this year?

13. Who is the person you most want to encourage this year?

14. What is your most important financial goal this year, and what is the most important step you can take toward achieving it?

15. What book, in addition to the Bible, do you most want to read this year?

16. What single blessing from God do you want to seek most earnestly this year?

17. What skill do you most want to learn or improve this year?

18. What one biblical truth do you most want to understand better this year, and what will you do about it?

19. If those who know you best gave you one piece of advice, what would they say? What will you do about it?

20. What's the most important new item you need to buy this year?

21.  In what area of your life do you most need change, and what will you do about it this year?

(Email these questions to each member after your discussion tonight so they can continue to think about them and prayerfully discuss with God.)