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One Another Series - Week 1

Connect With One Another:

No One Overloaded, No One Overlooked

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Group Discussion

QUESTIONS:

  • Where in your life do you feel overloaded or see others carrying too much? It could be family, work, church, or relationships.
  • What keeps us from asking others for help and what keeps people from sharing the responsibility of leading? 
    (Is it fear? Pride? Lack of trust, training or time? Previous negative experience?)
  • Who could you empower or share more responsibility with this week, whether at home, work, or church? How should we respond if we are asked to share responsibility?

  • As a group take time to reflect on some passages from the New Testament that talk about shared life and mutual care. I’d like us to assign these verses around the group. Let’s have one person read each verse and then briefly share how it relates to this idea of shared leadership, care, and connection.

    1. Hebrews 10:24–25 
    2. Acts 2:42–47  
    3. Romans 12:10  
    4. Romans 15:7  
    5. Ephesians 4:16 
    6. 1 Cor. 12:15-18 


    Go ahead and take a few moments to read and reflect on each one. You might be surprised how much the early church lived out the same values Jethro introduced.     

KEY VERSES:

Hebrews 10:24–25
And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
 
Acts 2:42-27
They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. Everyone was filled with awe at the many wonders and signs performed by the apostles. All the believers were together and had everything in common. They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need. Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.
 
Romans 12:10
Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves.
 
Romans 15:7
Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God.
 
Ephesians 4:16
From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.
 
1 Corinthians 12:15-18
Now if the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be? But in fact God has placed the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be.
 

CLOSING PRAYER:

Father, thank You for showing us a better way through Your Word. Thank You for wise leaders like Jethro, and for the example of Moses who was humble enough to listen.
Help us to be people who lift others up, who share the load, and who lead with grace and humility.
May our groups, families, and churches be places where no one is alone, and no one is unseen.
Give us eyes to see who we can empower, mentor, and encourage this week.
In Jesus’ name we pray, Amen.

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