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Life and faith, together

Our small groups range from 5–15 people meeting together in homes to fellowship, study, pray, and serve one another and our neighbors. As we practice life together centered on the gospel, we are also empowered to extend hospitality to our neighbors and friends.

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Discussion questions

Groups are based around sermon discussion — reflecting on the previous Sunday's message and how to apply that passage of Scripture to our lives. This week's questions are below.

This week Take a Walk on the (Slow) Side From Sunday, October 11 · 7 questions Download Open this week Close

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What is something you particularly love or appreciate about other people? Who are some people in your life who demonstrate that quality?

Read together

1 John 1:5-10

Discuss

John describes God as light, with no darkness in him. What does this simple image communicate about God and our relationship with him?
John warns that we can claim to have fellowship with God while actually walking in darkness\. When you read that, do you stop to examine yourself? Do you think that’s the author’s intent?
The passage has several ideas that are held in tension with one another. What are they, and how do you think we might reconcile them?
Verse 7 connects walking in the light with having fellowship with one another. Why do you think these two things are connected?
Read over the third commitment of our covenant: 1. Devote ourselves to Jesus daily. 2. Gather with the church to treasure the gospel. 3. Walk together in love as brothers and sisters a family of sinners saved by grace. We delight in each other and bear each other's burdens; we encourage frequently, admonish gently, and receive correction humbly. We value honesty and openness with each other, resisting the temptation to hide our weaknesses and sins, so that we may experience grace together. (Rom 12:10, 15; Heb 3:13; Gal 6:1-2; Eph 4:15, 29-31; James 5:16; 1 John 1:6-10)
Workshop: Our covenant calls us to delight in one another, bear one another’s burdens, encourage, admonish, and practice honesty and grace. What are some practical ways you personally can put these things into practice? What approaches have been helpful, and what hasn’t worked? Take some time to workshop this together.
Bonus Question: We often talk about cultivating a community where we confess our sins and grow together through that practice. Yet this seems easier said than done. Can we change this? How?

Pray

Pray that God would help us walk in the light; that we would not be deceived in darkness; and that we would grow in genuine love and affection for every one of our brothers and sisters.

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