Small Group Resources

November 8 - 14

Sermon Series: Remember Who You Are

Week 2: Ephesians 3

Ice Breaker, If Needed

When is a proper time to decorate for Christmas? 

Discussion Questions

1.    Describe a "spiritual Venus fly trap”. If soil is bad, what might a spiritually-starving person try to grasp to compensate for poor conditions? Why are people content to settle for shabby sources of “nutrition”? Why is it important to assess the soil you are rooted in? What does it affect? What happens when a person tries to flourish while rooted in bad soil?

2.    Read Ephesians 3:16-19. Share or write down what you know about the widest geologic feature on earth. Take a moment to research the longest, highest, and deepest features, too. Now, expand your imagination to these descriptors of the universe. What happens to your mind when you try to comprehend these magnitudes? Now, lay God’s love for you on top of that mental picture. What prevents you from fully grasping you are loved to this magnitude, and beyond?

3.    If you were truly rooted in the unfathomable love of God, what would be different about your life? How you look forward to tomorrow? How you process difficulties or loss? How you see others? Have you experienced a season when you are comprehending His love, but then you lose sight of it? What happened? How have you been content with simply having more good days than bad days, or nibbles of His goodness rather than the feast?

4.    Is there anything you can do to change the soil and become rooted in the love of God? First, pray, “Holy Spirit, please help me to get it!” What can you do right now to be ready to comprehend His vast love? Are you ready to become so rooted in His love that it changes the way you think, act, speak live, hope, and love others? Ask yourself these questions:

a.    Am I aware of God’s love? Where have I seen His love today? Think of how you’ve seen His love in action, in His creation, in the fulfillment of promises, in healing. Share one thing with the group or write ten things down.

b.   Am I asking for it? Do you ask God to teach you about His love, but also about grace, humility, and patience? Do you ask the Holy Spirit to show you some of the ways God’s love has been expressed to you that you might not recognize? What will you do with the recognition?

c.    Am I experiencing it? How do you open your heart to God’s love? What does it mean to abide in Him? Why is it more than attending
church, worship, praying? What happens to your understanding of God’s character as you abide in Him?

d.   Am I acting in it? Are you moving toward experiencing God’s love? What is produced in a heart that chooses to remain plugged in to
the Source of love? If you had a bracelet that had “WWLD” (What Would Love Do?) what would a glimpse of it under your cuff remind you to do?

5.    Read Ephesians 3:20-21. When have you found yourself believing in God’s ability, but doubting His willingness? What does grasping God’s great love have to do with trusting in His willingness to come through?