Abram had his name Changed, Lucifer had his name changed. How does Loving as God on his terms or not, change our name? What name would you like to have? Loving Father, A sharer of the faith, one who stands up for what is right, etc.?
What is the difference between judging people and judging their actions (that cause harm)?
Love covers a multitude of sins (I Pet 4:8), but it doesn’t cover rebellion. Ex. Bronze Serpent… People sinned and were judged, but all they had to do is look, but some could have chosen not to… What does a rebellious Spirit look like? What should you do in this regard? Is the Prodigal son an example of this?
Some people have tough relationships with their fathers or father figures, instead of protecting caused harm. How can God’s Call to love your enemy be applied to this or others that are hard to love?
The more we know God, the more it is more natural to love as He does? What are some things that get in the way of us knowing God? Have you seen someone’s heart get hardened? How Can you help soften it? What are some Limits to what you can do?

Witness (check out the Witness section resources below):

How we work together as a team to be “good news” to the people around us.

How is your group doing? Is anyone missing? Do they know you care?
What are you doing to make your life group safe, healthy, and effective?
Identify people you are in a position to reach for Jesus this week. Pray for them.

Additional Life Group Meeting Components:

Reflection – Include a brief time (e.g. 2 minutes) for quiet reflection sometime during your meeting. Potential times for this are:
- Just before reviewing the questions during the Word portion of the meeting.
- Just before prayer during the Witness portion of the meeting.
- Just after prayer during the Witness portion of the meeting.

Immediately after this reflection time, members may want to write down any thoughts or impressions that come to them and anything that they feel the Lord is saying to them or to anyone else. Encourage the members to consider how they might incorporate more reflection in their daily, weekly, and monthly routines.

Life Group Housekeeping (do this once a month or more often if needed)
- Be familiar with our life group goals.
- Review our connection tools: e-Life & the life group email list
  - Does everyone know how to use them?
  - Is everyone’s information up to date?
  - Is everyone receiving email from the life group email list?
- Is anyone not showing up for Sunday service or life group meetings? If so, who has been in touch with them?
- How will the group onboard the next visitor?

Word Section Default Questions

(Use these when there are no specific discussion questions for the passage:

Question 1: “What is this passage saying?”
Question 2: “What is God saying to you through this passage?”
Question 3: “How can you apply this passage throughout the week?”

Taken from:

What is the Best Small Group Lesson? (Three Questions that Will Help Revitalize Your Cell Group) – YouTube (00:5:15)

Witness Section Resources:

How we work together as a team to be “good news” to the people around us.

- Following Jesus: Evangelism
- InterVarsity Evangelism Prayer Cards (PDF)
- InterVarsity Evangelism 2+PrayerISM (PDF)
- Evangelism and Multiplication – Joel Comiskey Group
- Questions For Use In Relational Evangelism
- Small Group Evangelism: Strategies for reaching people for Jesus – YouTube (00:04:50)
- Small Group Evangelism: Why Small Group Evangelism is Essential – YouTube (00:04:25)
- Multiplication: Effective Cell Groups First Make Disciples before Giving Birth – YouTube (00:03:36)
- Multiplication: Myths and Truths about Effective Cell Group Multiplication – YouTube (00:04:35)

Life Groups

Life groups are the basic environment in which discipleship will take place. A life group is a group of 3 – 15 believers who come together weekly outside of the church building for evangelism, community, and spiritual growth with the goal of making disciples who make disciples.

Without life groups, we are at the mercy of cliques and people who aren’t in a clique will “fall through the cracks”. Furthermore, even the people who are in cliques will have some of their issues and needs “fall through the cracks”. This is because life groups are organized to please, and be led by the Holy Spirit, whereas cliques develop solely around whatever the people in the cliques find appealing. Life groups are organized to help you grow and overcome your “issues”; cliques simply aren’t! Becoming part of a life group is a major way that we “seek first God’s Kingdom and his righteousness”.

Check out our Life Group Pages for more life group information and resources.

Five Thresholds

Because the Five Thresholds approach to relational evangelism helps us to pay careful attention to the people that the Lord brings our way, it is an excellent way to meet people “where they are”. We want to prayerfully help them move through each threshold and become followers of Jesus. At any given stage, we may be planting a seed or watering a seed that we or someone else has planted. At each stage, we should see ourselves, together with other believers, as a hospital for sick and wounded people.

Home Page | Evangelism
The Five Thresholds | Evangelism
- Journey to Faith: The Five Thresholds | Evangelism
- Threshold 1: Trust | Evangelism
- Threshold 2: Curiosity | Evangelism
- Threshold 3: Openness | Evangelism
- Threshold 4: Seeking | Evangelism
- Threshold 5: Following | Evangelism

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