Mission Community Guide • Week of 10/4
Options for Engagement Before Group
Discussion Questions
1. What obstacles, difficulties, or successes did you experience in slowing down and finding God in your life this week?
2. The journey of genuine transformation to emotionally healthy spirituality begins with a commitment to allow yourself to feel. Feelings are an essential part of our humanity and unique personhood as men and women created in God’s image. Scripture reveals God as an emotional being who feels as a person. Having been created in his image, we also are created with the gift to feel and experience emotions. Some of us may have learned that feelings are not to be trusted; that they are dangerous and can lead us away from God’s will for us. While it is true that we are not to be led by our emotions, they do serve a critical function in our discipleship and discernment of God’s will.
What are you angry about?
What are you sad about?
What are you anxious about?
What are you glad about?
* A couple of people should share how they felt working through these questions or if anyone in the group would like to share what they wrote down.
3. What are places in your life where you feel shame, guilt, or un-comfortability?
4. Many of us are so unaccustomed to distinguishing our true self from our false self that it may seem difficult to know where to begin. Complete the following sentence, and then share it with your group as a first step: What I am beginning to realize about myself is . . .
Share your response in groups of two or three