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
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?