REALLIFE STUDY GROUP

“What’s the Question?”

ICEBREAKER: Name one of the most unusual architectural man-made buildings or structures in the world?

OUTLINE: The Answers:

Because…

1. You can never manifest what you are not or have not become or are not becoming

2. You can never describe what you have never tasted

3. You can never preach with power what you have not practiced

4. You can never give what you have not been given (release/ received)

5. You cannot operate in authority unless you have submitted to authority or come under authority

6. You can never loose what you have not been loosed from or you can never free someone from what you are not free of yourself

7. You can never teach what you do not know

8. You can never repeat what you have not heard

9. You can never effectively communicate what you have never experienced

10. You cannot reveal what has not been revealed to you and in you.

TEXT: Hebrews 3:4, Matthew 7:24-27, Ephesians 2:19-22

STUDY GROUP QUESTIONS:

1. Which of the images that God uses to describe his New Testament people that are mostly found in the book of Ephesians impact you the most? (His Church, His Bride, His Body, His Family, His Workmanship (Poem), His Temple, His Army, His Household, His Children, His Servants)

2. Why was it not enough for our God to be the Master builder? Why did He also have to be the chief cornerstone?

3. Of the list of answers given above which most strikes your spirit?

4. Name a character value that would be important to build your life upon.

5. Bethel means the House of God. According to Ephesians 2:22, we are becoming a dwelling place of God. Identify one thing that needs to change in you to make your house become more comfortable for God to dwell there.

a. I must become more willing and obedient

b. I must stop being so distracted

c. I must recognize my insecurities and give them to God

d. I must stop running & withdrawing when things get bad

e. I must stop complaining & whining when things don’t go my way.

f. I must be more compassionate and sensitive to the needs of others

g. I must walk more by the Spirit than in the flesh

h. I need to be more giving and less self-focused

i. I need to stop being so moody

j. I need to continue to be more positive

k. I need to stop being so judgmental and leave the judging to God.

l. I need to stop worrying about things I have no control over

m. _________________________________________

6. The question that I believe the One (Jesus), who is building His church, is asking is; why is my church so impotent, apathetic and anemic? Name the end results or effects of a church that is impotent, apathetic and anemic.