GETTING STARTED
For Your Consideration:
This week we are engaging a topic that may yield very personal discussion. Please, do not share about someone else without first receiving their permission. Married couples, please ask for permission if you would like to share any details about another person’s life with your spouse.
What are a few of each generation’s (Boomers, Gen-X, Millennials, Z) stereotypical addictions?
We are continuing our series, Rising Hope, with Pastor Ray’s message, “Beyond Hope.” We have been challenged to press into the hope we have in Christ. We have been encouraged to trust that through Christ, we are delivered from our sinful habits and addiction. But, we realize that oftentimes deliverance from a behavior is a long journey; a journey that we need to walk with others.
WE WANT TO:
- Submit to Christ
- Submit to Christ
- Seek Help from Others
- Serve Others
- Serve Others
READ
Galatians 5:1-14
WATCH
DISCUSS
1. What do our addictions hold us back from?
2. What connections do you see between idolatry and addiction?
3. How does a good thing (e.g., religion, exercise, tasty food, staying healthy, fun, Instagram, work, achievement, etc.) become a bad addiction?
4. What does being a son or daughter of God––no longer a slave––mean for our addictions?
5. How does hiding your shame or wearing masks make knowing who God created you to be difficult?
6. Why is it important to gather with others in tackling your addictions?
7. What role does hope in Christ, as your deliverer, play in all this?Break up into groups of men and women:
1. From what sin, habit, or addiction do you need freedom?
2. Spend some time praying for each other.
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