Session Introduction
- Key session outcome: Learning how the Holy Spirit helps us to take conversations deeper.
- Reach Plan – we’ve done three sessions/practices of building the plan and will continue to do every week. Is everyone understanding? Is everyone participating?
PRAY
- Begin your Life Group with worship songs, contemplative prayer, thankfulness, personal prayer requests or similar.
GROW
Review last weeks practice:
Use ‘My Reach Plan’ to list the topics you currently discuss with each person at each of the three level of the Spiral. It’s okay if the internal and eternal conversations are absent, just add topics that you could discuss if the opportunity arose.
During a conversation this week use one of your questions to take the conversation deeper.
Discussion Questions:
- Review the table again – state a new learning this week that you didn’t see last time we watched the video?
- Brainstorm 5 questions anyone could use to take a conversation from internal to external. (Last week we brainstormed external to internal).
- Share about a time a conversation with a non-Christian friend has entered the Eternal level. How and why did the conversation get there?
- Jesus asked 307 questions, meaning about 1 in 6 things Jesus said was a question. Why did Jesus use questions to reach people as opposed to just giving them the answers, telling them the truth?
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Read Acts 16: 22 - 34. When faced with a life-threatening situation, the jailor asked a simple, direct question; "What must I do to be saved?" Paul and Silas gave him an equally simple and direct response. Where have you hesitated to give a response to a direct question because you were afraid of getting it wrong/being challenged, or not being able to answer follow up questions? What simple, direct answer could you have given?
Review this weeks Practice below
The practices are designed for you to complete on your own and then review at next week’s session.
REACHING PRAYERS
- Pray Acts 1:8 over each other, that you would be effective witnesses
- Pray for each other to grow in reaching our friends for Jesus
- Pray for one place each that God would open doors for deeper relationships
- Pray for one person each that their heart would open to Jesus
