REALLIFE STUDY GROUP

“In Search of the Perfect Gift!”

ICEBREAKER: What is the most unusual or strangest gift you ever received?

OUTLINE: 7 Attributes of the Perfect Gift

1. Preparation: Rev 13:8

2. Timing: Gal 4:4,5

3. Value: 2 Samuel 24:22

4. Heart: Matthew 6:21

5. Endurance: Hebrews 12:2

6. Purpose: James 1:17

7. Indescribable: 2 Corinthians 9:15

TEXT: Luke 11:13

STUDY GROUP QUESTIONS:

1. What preparation needs to take place in you and your life to prepare you to receive the gifts and blessings God wants you to have?

2. Describe a time when God used to bless someone else or a time God used someone else to bless you.

3. What is the most valuable thing you possess that someone else might not value? Explain

4. King David said I will not give God that which costs me nothing. In others the amount of sacrifice determines the value. Share with us something you bought or won that took a great deal of sacrifice to achieve, receive or purchase.

5. What kind of need or heartache most touches your heart and makes you want to give toward the cause?

6. Tell us who and how someone else could benefit from your gifts, ability or talents.

7. For the joy that was set before him, Jesus endured the cross. What or who was the joy that was set before Him?

8. Describe a creative way you individually or as a group could bless someone this Christmas.