Small Group Resources
Small Group Discussion Questions
October 11 - 17
Sermon Series: The Home Team
Week 3: How to Lose – Relationship Wedges
Ice Breaker if Needed
What is your favorite board, card, or video game? Why?
Discussion Questions
- What is God showing you about your marriage or other close relationships as we reach the half-way point in this series? How are you demonstrating deeper gratitude? In what ways are you contributing where perhaps you haven’t before? Are you seeing the fruit of Godly communication in your relationships? Share your wins!
- Read James 1:19-20. Who is being addressed? What should we be quick to do? Slow to do? Why? How would your communication be transformed by a close and careful adherence to these verses?
- Why do people believe if others disagree with them, they aren’t being heard? Share a story of a time you heard someone out, understood their point of view, and still disagreed with them. Has this happened to you? How did you handle it?
- Read Matthew 18:15. According to this verse, how should you handle conflict with someone? Contrast that with how the world handles personal conflict. If someone had an issue with your behavior, a sin you struggle with, or a fault, how would you want them to approach you? Why?
- Read the following verses: Proverbs 15:1; Proverbs 17:4; Proverbs 15:18; Romans 12:18; Ephesians 4:26. Identify the common threads. What is the Biblical solution to conflict? How does Jesus see your conflicts? Is He more concerned about the things you fight over or how you treat others in the midst of conflict? If you can’t find your way to peace with another, what should you do?
- Read John 13:34-35. What is negotiable in this verse? What does God want for your marriage? Your family relationships? Your friendships? Your co-working relationships? How can James 1:19-20 guide you into Godly, Biblical communication?