REALLIFE STUDY GROUP

8 Spiritual Disciplines

 

ICEBREAKER: How did your parents discipline in your home growing up?

 

DEFINITION: Discipline: instruction or training that molds or perfects the mental faculties or moral character.

 

OUTLINE: Spiritual Disciplines

1.    Journal Everyday

2.    Meditation & Confession

3.    Bible Study & Teaching what you learn

4.    Giving & Receiving

5.    Prayer, Fasting & Forgiveness

6.    Being Thankful

 

TEXT: 1 Correct 9:23-27; Heb 5:13-14, 1Ti

 

STUDY GROUP QUESTIONS:

1.    Name one thing a believer should journal about?

2.    What is your favorite verse to meditate on? Tell us one thing you have learned from that verse.

3.    We often learn disciplines from the people that teach or discipline us. Who is your favorite Bible TV preacher? Why?

4.    Why is it important to teach what you learn? What subject are you most knowledgeable about?

5.    On a scale of 1 to 10 how generous are you & what is the hardest thing for you to give or receive?

6.    What are you most thankful for?

7.    In what area of life do you need to develop some discipline?