REALLIFE STUDY GROUP

“Dead To Comfort, Alive to Suffering!”

ICEBREAKER: What is your greatest comfort food when you are going through a stressful season?

OUTLINE: The Christian Condition Versus The Christian Position

1. We are hard-pressed (hedged in) but not crushed (cramped)

2. We are perplexed (made low) but not in despair (not confounded or lack nothing)

3. We are persecuted (hunted down) but not forsaken (abandoned)

4. We are struck down (knocked down, set back) but not destroyed (don’t perish)

Facts About Carrying A Baby Or A Vision

1. Your Eating Habits Must Change

2. Your Routine Will Change

3. Your Body Chemistry Will Change

4. Your Pain Threshold Will Change

5. Your Energy Level Will Change

6. Your Needs Will Change

7. The Time Of Your Natural Delivery Is Not Up To You

TEXT: 2 Corinthians 4:7-18, Matthew 5:1-11

STUDY GROUP QUESTIONS:

1. How do you deal with uncomfortable situations or conditions in your life?

a. Cry

b. Scream

c. Complain

d. Pout

e. Eat Ice Cream

f. Get over it

g. Talk To A Friend

h. __________________________________________________

2. Describe a time in your life when you have felt hard-pressed or hedged in. How does a Christian keep from being crushed?

3. The word “perplexed” means to be puzzled. Describe an event that has happened in your life that you know was designed by the enemy to bring confusion in your walk with the Lord.

4. What Is the greatest persecution you have experience for your faith?

5. What has been the most difficult set back in your life to recover or get back up from and how has that event been a set-up for something great in your life?

6. What gives a mother the stamina and the tenacity to endure the discomforts of pregnancy?

7. What seed, idea, invention, ministry, assignment, responsibility, or vision has God implanted in you?