3/3 Group Format
Announcements and Updates:
Help for the Holidays: Generosity Initiative
This holiday season, our goal is to serve 45 unique families through our local partners by delivering $100 gift cards to the families family and offering to pray for them in person.
We’d like to invite you to engage in this generosity initiative in one or both of the following options:
Give any designated amount to this initiative in addition to your normal monthly giving through:
Our online platform and choose the option: “Help for the Holidays”
Or give through our offering envelopes and designate “Help for the Holidays”
Help us deliver the gift cards and pray for families on November the 17th
Sign up to deliver and pray HERE
LOOK BACK (1/3 OF YOUR TIME)
As you gather, share a meal, or snacks & refreshments. Open your time together in prayer.
Care & Connect
Share your name and something you’re thankful/grateful for.
Share something causing you stress/anxiety.
Is there anything this group can do to help with some of the needs mentioned?
How did your “I Will…” statement go from last week?
Did You share your story, or God's story with anyone?
LOOK UP (1/3 OF YOUR TIME)
Read & Discuss
This Weeks Passage: Acts 2:42-47
Pause for a 30 second breath prayer - “Holy Spirit, Come”
Read the passage in 2-3 different translations
What does this teach us about God and people?
What does this teach us about the life God wants us to live?
LOOK FORWARD (1/3 OF YOUR TIME)
Obey - Share - Pray (never skip)
Pause and have everyone in the group pray for the Spirit to show them how to answer these questions:
How will you obey this passage?
Create an “I Will…” statement and write it down.
Who will you share your story or God's story with this week?/ Who are you inviting to Halloween Community Night?
Pray for One Another
Create space for listening prayer and prophecy if you didn’t get to it last week:
Use the ABC’s to process God’s voice during listening prayer.
Invite the Holy Spirit to speak and ask simply:
God is there anything you want to say to an individual or this group as a whole tonight?
Pray for the person to your left:
Ask God to give them the strength to be obedient to their commitments.
Ask God to prepare the hearts of the people who will be hearing about Jesus through them this week.