Pre-Season 3 Leader Huddle

 

Social Media Fame and My Cooking Skills

 

I know you've been wondering how to become social media famous and show off your cooking skills, so here is a 2 minute video to tell you how! 

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NEW TRAILERS!

Check out these 3 new series' trailers for Season 3 of rGroups!!

Spiritual Gifts with Pastor Wesley::

Thrive: A Study of Psalm 119 with Matthew:: 

Christian Parenting with Pastor Nathan:: 

Leader Huddle Season 2 Wk. 8

Here is 3 short minutes of how you can help us get better! 

RE Series wk. 4 REstore

Icebreaker: What's one of your biggest fears? 

Today we're studying a passage about a very well-known fear. Bugs. In Joel 2, God sends a plague of locusts on His own people to decimate their livelihood in order to get their attention. Let's see what God might be saying to us through it. 

READ Joel 2:1-2

1- What are some warning signs you've seen pop up in your past when you were heading down a path God doesn't want you to stay on? 

• Leader Note; This may seem like a personal question but if some people can share from their past, it can be very helpful for people who may be seeing these signs in the present but are unable to recognize them.

2- When you hear the term "the day of the Lord" are your thoughts normally positive or negative? Why?

READ Luke 23:44-46. 

Here we see a parallel (darkness during the daytime) between the day of the Lord mentioned in Joel and the fulfillment of the day of the Lord when Jesus was crucified. The day of darkness and gloom ending up being the day where relationship between God and man was restored.

3- How does knowing that even the worst day in history was used for your good, encourage you today?

READ Joel 2:11-12

4-This verse tells us that God used this plague of locusts to get His people's attention. Has God ever used something bad in your life to draw you closer to Him? If so, share with the group.

5- Despite the hard season the Israelite people faced, God told them to return to Him. If his past season of life has been hard for you, how have you "returned" to God during this time? If the past few months have not been hard, what decisions can you make now that would help you in a difficult season in the future? 

READ Joel 2:13-15

6- The same phrase "Blow a trumpet in Zion" was used in verse 1 to warn of God's judgement. Now, in verse 15 it is used in response to His goodness. How do you think Joel and the people of Israel could were able to have the same reaction to both bad and good from God?

7- How do you react to these 2 characteristics of God? Do you react to them differently or the same? Why or why not? 

8- As season 2 of rGroups comes to a close, how can the group be praying for you? How do you want to see your faith grow in the coming weeks? 

Leader Huddle Season 2 Wk. 7

Let's ask God to flip the camera in our minds to see our groups the way He sees them, not focusing on what we can see with our own eyes! 

RE Series wk. 3 - REnew

Icebreaker: Today we are studying the passage of scripture that inspired the famous hymn “Great is Thy Faithfulness.” What’s one of your favorite “oldie but goodie” songs? (It has to be at least 10 years old)

1- When you hear the word “lament” what are some of the initial thoughts that come to mind?

READ Lamentations 3:16-18, Job 2:10

*I recommend reading the NLT (New Living Translation) this week*

2- The ‘he’ in this passage refers to God (see Lam. 3:1). Christians often mistakenly think that God never gives them anything bad/difficult. How do these passages challenge that assumption?

3- God gives us hard things sometimes. How have you seen that to be true in your life recently?

4- Lamentations 3:18 (NLT) says, “Everything I had hoped for from the Lord was lost.” Have you had this thought in the past few months? Why?

READ Lamentations 3:19-21

5- When you go through difficult times in your life, in what do you normally find hope?

6- Gloom and doom has been the mantra of the day since COVID came. Jeremiah was dealing decades worth of sorrow and despair when he wrote this. Yet, verse 21 (NLT) says he still “dared to hope.” Have you purposely tried to be hopeful during the past few months? If so, how? If not, why?

READ Lamentations 3:22-24 

7- Despite all the bad things brought in Jeremiah’s life, he still can write verse 22. How do you think that’s possible?

8- “Great is His faithfulness.” What do you think that means? After thinking about that in relation to questions 2 and 3, how does this passage of scripture impact your view of God? 

9- Verse 24 answers our questions 5 & 6. What does it mean for the Lord to be your inheritance? How does that help you have hope?

• If you need some extra help, check out Ephesians 1:11-14. Our inheritance is our salvation and the Holy Spirit is the guarantee of that salvation. So, our hope is in our salvation that comes only from God.