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WELCOME ICEBREAKER

For what event would you want to have the best seats; a Canucks game, Vancouver Symphony, child's school play, other?

 

WORSHIP

It is important to start your meeting with a spirit of joy.
A merry heart does good, like medicine, but a broken spirit dries the bones. — Proverbs 17:22

 

WORD

Below are a number of questions to discuss this powerful chapter. Remember as a leader your role is to facilitate, not to teach. Our goal is for this to be a time to learn from each other and for new believers to learn how to study God's word. This portion of the evening should be about 45 minutes. Respecting the time factor is important to keeping people coming back. If people leave wishing they could go longer, it is healthy and actually builds anticipation for the next meeting. Remember you don't have to cover all the points.

  1. As a group read through James Chapter Two.
  2. In general, how do people show favoritism?
  3. Why do we show partiality, what is the root of it?
  4. James mentions that we are to love our neighbor as we love ourselves. Discuss why is it important to love ourselves to order to love our neighbor? Who is James asking to love as a neighbor in this passage?
  5. How can you as a home group improve on reaching out and including others? How can we put action to our faith so partiality is not in our church?
  6. Who could be at your home group, if they were invited?
  7. Give the following verses to a member in the group and ask them to share how the verse relates to putting action to our faith and loving others.

    • 2 Corinthians 5:20
    • Colossians 1:27
    • Matthew 5:13-16
    • 1 John 3:17
    • 1 John 4:20
    • Galatians 6:10

  8. Do you think James is condemning the wealthy and exalting the poor?
  9. How does the world treat the wealthy versus the poor?
  10. Does the name of Jesus still get blasphemed? How and by who?

WORK

The purpose of the “work” portion of the meeting is to allow the meeting to end with a focus on what is going on outside the cell, as well as to provide a time to minister to one another. Use this time to speak vision into your group. Speak of new people joining and multiplication. Remember leadership summit is next week. Reminder your group about John Bevere coming on Sunday night August 22.

Has this lesson helped you? Please let us know! Email home group testimonies with this form!

Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to God.

2 Corinthians 5:20