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WELCOME ICEBREAKER Your choice. There may be a good pick from the hand out from October leadership summit meeting. WORSHIP Encourage the group to praise God for His forgiveness. If your group isn’t able to sing take time to reflect on the privilege of being forgiven. WORD As a group read John 8:1-12. Jesus in this story gives us a powerful lesson on forgiveness. Anyone of us could have been caught in an act that was wrong and been brought before Christ. Our Lord’s reaction to her would have been the same for us. First Jesus establishes the fact she is not alone as a person who has failed. Second Jesus establishes the fact that He does not condemn her. Read John 3:17 and Romans 8:1 as back up verses. Thirdly Jesus tells her to go and sin no more. - What was the difference between the way she left and the way the others in the crowd left?
- How does the way Jesus treated this woman help you face your sins?
- What do you typically do when you blow it? (be honest)
- crawl in a hole
- try to be extra good
- confess it to God and move on
- confess it to another person
- shrug it off
- What can you learn from Jesus here to help a friend who has fallen?
WORK Take time to pray for the needs in your group. Be sensitive to those who may have been hurt by others and need to have an opportunity to forgive them. Make sure to remind your group about the dinner theatre this Saturday. This is a great group activity and a good way to invite friends out to a church event. Make sure you RSVP the church with how many you are bringing so the food can be prepared. Has this lesson helped you? Please let us know! Email home group testimonies with this form! For God did not send the Son into the world in order to judge (to reject, to condemn, to pass sentence on) the world, but that the world might find salvation and be made safe and sound through Him. John 3:17 — AMP
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