Highlights:
Watch out for the bleachers
If you are a follower of Jesus, all pain is temporary.
We really can’t avoid pain, so we mine as well learn from it.
If you want to grow this year, learn from the painful experiences of the past.
Get the Chex Mix
What has God asked you to do but you got distracted?
Start here in 2018.
Try to get lettuce to come out of someone’s nose.
It wouldn’t be funny if I told you what we were talking about, you just had to be there.
LIfe’s most valuable moments involve other people.
When it comes to relationship:
They are always changing
If you keep investing, you grow with the change.
Discussion Questions:
What lessons did you learn from pain that happened last year? How will those lessons change the way you live in this year to come?
Is there anything the Lord has asked you to do that you have not yet done? Maybe you’ve gotten distracted or underprioritzed it. What will it take to follow through on that thing that the Lord wants you to do?
When was the last time and what will it take for you to experience again a “You just had to be there!” moment with some friends?
Let’s do a relationship status check. To grow with the relationships around you, we must invest in hearing other’s stories and sharing our story with them. With that need in mind, how can you grow with the change that is happening in the relationships around you?
Key Scriptures:
Proverbs 2:6 “For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding. NIV
My brethren count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. Proverbs 2:6 NIV
“Do not merely listen to the word and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.” James 1:22
“He who walks with the wise men will be wise, but the companion of fools will be destroyed. Prov. 12:20
“Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, one will lift up his companion, But woe to him who is alone when he falls, for he has no one to help him up.” Ecclesiastes 4:9-10
“We will make more friends by taking a genuine interest in others rather than by trying to make others interested in us.” Tony Dungy