REALLIFE STUDY GROUP

“Let’s Make An Impression”

 

ICEBREAKER:  If you could have one wish for Christmas this year what would it be?

 

DEFINITION:  Comprehend: to understand, to seize, to control, to contain, to wrap arms around and manipulate, to extinguish or put out.

 

OUTLINE: 5 Requirements of Impact Living

1.   I must take responsibility for me

2.   I am called to demonstrate God’s Love

3.   I need to anticipate opportunities to operate in the gifts of the Spirit

4.   I am called to move with compassion

5.   I must not get so spiritual that I overlook the practical

 

TEXT: John 1:4-7; Matthew 5:13-16 

STUDY GROUP QUESTIONS:

1.    Who in your life is waiting for you to make a change in your habits or lifestyle, or in the way you think or talk, or in your attitudes or moods, and what change are they waiting on you to make?

a.    Family: Parents, Spouse, Siblings, Kids

b.   Friends/Peers

c.    Employer/Employees

d.   Teachers/Coaches/Mentors

e.    _______________________________________________

2.    God has given each of us responsibilities.  One of the ways we know we have grown and matured is that He gives us greater responsibilities.  What are some of the responsibilities that He has given you & how would you rate your level of success?

3.    Identify one thing that the people you live, work, or study with; have learned about God by simply observing your relationship with God.

4.    In your opinion how could the church demonstrate God’s Love more effectively?

5.    The Bible says in John 1:5, says that the darkness could not comprehend or understand the Light.  Name one thing that the world or unbelievers have trouble understanding about the church or people of faith?

6.    Name one way that the world has tried to put out the Light in the church or believers.

7.    What would you say are the top eight excuses people give for not going to church?

a.___________________________________

b.___________________________________

c.___________________________________

d.___________________________________

e.___________________________________

f.___________________________________

g.___________________________________

h.___________________________________

8. At the end of the day what is the greatest impact you would like to leave on the people in your life?