Connect
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What are you thankful for today?
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How have you seen God working in your life this past week?
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What difficulties are you experiencing in life? How may we help?
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How did you apply last session’s discovery? What happened?
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With whom did you share last session’s discovery? What was their response?
Instructions:
Please use the following steps to guide your discovery of God’s truth in the passages below. Need to review the Group Guidelines?
Discover
Step 1-Participants take turns reading sections of the passage (clarify new words/terms)
Step 2-One person reads the entire passage out loud while the rest listen
Step 3-A participant retells the passage in his/her own words (others add their thoughts)
God's Original Design (Genesis 1:26-31)
26Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." 27God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. 28God blessed them; and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth." 29Then God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you; 30and to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the sky and to every thing that moves on the earth which has life, I have given every green plant for food"; and it was so. 31God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
The Holy Bible. NASB. The Lockman Foundation.
Ask/Answer:
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What do you see in this passage?
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What does this passage mean to you?
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What do you like/not like about this passage?
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How does this passage change the way you see God/people?
Respond: if this is true...
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How should it change the way you live?
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With whom will you share today’s discovery?
Close
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Decide when the group will meet again
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Close in prayer (for needs mentioned above)