REALLIFE
STUDY GROUP
“No More
Bondage!”
ICEBREAKER:
If you had to go into the dessert what three things would you take with you,
assuming food, water and shelter was provided?
DEFINITION: Bondage: to be under the control or subjugation of something or someone.
To be oppressed, abused, and subdued. People in bondage live in the past, make
excuses, accept defeat, often refuse to take risks or
opportunities.
OUTLINE: God has called His
people to be:
1. Led not driven
2. Fathered not enslaved
3. Motivated not manipulated
4. Inspected not insulted
5. Inspired not intimidated
6. Encouraged not enticed
7. Emancipated not
incarcerated
8. Connected not controlled
9. Celebrated not tolerated
10. Accepted not abandoned
11. Injected not infected
12. Restored not rejected
13. Promoted not prevented
14. Coached not coaxed
TEXT: Deut 7, Exodus 1:14, 2:23,
6:5, 6:6, 6:9, 13:3, 13:14, 20:2, Deut 6:12, 8:14
STUDY GROUP QUESTIONS:
1.
Name
a type of bondage from which Americans need to be delivered?
2.
How
do free people think differently from those are enslaved?
3.
Israel
was called to dispossess 7 nations because of their wickedness. What are some
of the enemies God has called us as his people to deal with?
4.
If
God were to suddenly direct you to uproot your family and move or take a new
job or start a new ministry or step through a new door in your life what would
be some of the typical excuses we would use?
5.
God
said to Israel remember or don’t forget the Lord your God who brought you out
of Egypt. Why do we forget the Lord? Name some examples of how we have
forgotten God in this nation.
6.
How
is being led different from being driven?
7.
If
God called you to a new season in your life and you had to get the junk out of
your trunk before you could embark on this new journey, what junk would you
have to remove or deal with first?