REALLIFE STUDY GROUP

“If you build it, He will come”

 

ICEBREAKER:  Name a historic or present day dreamer, inventor, builder, reformer, or leader and tell us what impresses you most about him or her.    

 

OUTLINE:  5 Careless Compromises

1.        Don’t Build At All (Stop Dreaming)

2.        If You Build, Build Here (Stay Under This Authority)

3.        When You Build Don’t Go Too Far (Don’t Be Radical)

4.        You Can Build Just Leave Your Children Behind (Next Generation, Leverage)

5.        You Can All Go And Build Just Leave Your Flocks & Herds Behind (Offerings)

 

4 Stakes Of Building A Tent of Meeting

1. The Word: Defining our Purpose

2. Prayer: Defining our Position

3. Fasting: Defining our Power

4. Giving: Defining our Provision

 

TEXT:  Isaiah 54:1-3, Hebrews 11:23-29

 

STUDY GROUP QUESTIONS:

  1. What about Moses has impacted you most?
    1. Compassion:  He felt the pain of his people
    2. Courage:  He put his life on the line to return to Egypt
    3. Commitment:  He kept going back to pharaoh
    4. Consistency:  He never gave up
    5. _______________________________________________
  2. Moses’ name means to be drawn out because he was literally drawn out of the Nile.  David was drawn out to fight Goliath.  Joseph was drawn out to lead Egypt during a crisis. Daniel was drawn out by only bowing to the God.  Have you ever felt like you were drawn out by God to stand up or fight for something or someone?  Explain.
  3. Why did Pharaoh not want the Hebrews to go and build a place of worship?
  4. When we build a place of worship and God shows up, what does He come to change most?
    1. Our Attitudes
    2. Our Beliefs
    3. Our Conduct
    4. Our Desires
    5. Our Emotions
    6. Our Thinking
    7. _____________________________________________
  5. Of the 4 stakes of building listed above which need the most attention in your life?
  6. Pharaoh tried to get Moses to compromise in 5 different ways listed above.  Which of these has the enemy tried to use in your life?