Keep growing in your relationship with Jesus: Take the message with you into your week. Reflect on the Bible passage and sermon (posts Sun. afternoon), then use the ideas below to help you talk it over with your friends, coworkers, family, or Grow Group.

Icebreaker idea: When in your life would you say you were physically at your strongest? What about emotionally or spiritually?

A way to pray: Spend time admitting weaknesses to the Lord, thanking Him for His strength, and asking Him to move you beyond those weaknesses. Pray for those who don’t know Him to be able to realize their own weaknesses, too, as we seek to see 2,000 people by 2022 baptized and growing in relationship with Jesus through the Word, prayer, and community.

• If it’s true that Jesus knows our weaknesses fully and forgives them perfectly, then why do we feel the need at times to hide them from others? What can I do practically to grow in this area?

• What keeps me stuck in my current weakness? In what ways do I see Jesus seeking me, changing me, working to lead me out of darkness into His marvelous light?