Oct. 2 - Prayer & Community: Silence/Solitude & Serving

Mark 6:7, 12-13, 30-46

First listen to the sermon (posts Sun. afternoon). Then use the ideas below to help you and your group apply what the Lord is teaching you.

Icebreaker idea

Think about someone prioritizes prayer and community well. How do you see that impacting them personally and those around them?

Talk it over

• What was one thing you heard in this week’s sermon that has impacted with/ challenged you?

• Treasuring God: What’s something I personally appreciate about God that I wish everyone else could see and appreciate also?

• Being Transformed: What are a couple steps I sense the Lord nudging me to take to grow in serving and/or in silence/solitude?

• Loving Others: Who are some of the “outsiders” in my life? What might it look like to serve them with my words and actions?

• Pursuing Unity: What are some practical ways we can serve each other (“insiders”) with what Jesus has given each of us?

A way to pray

Pray for one another, that we would be people who prioritize getting away and spending time alone, just to be with God. Pray that we would see the value in and allow our lives to be built around patterns of serving and loving one another in community. Pray that as individuals, groups, and as a church we would experience a personal connection with Jesus that is authentic and contagious towards others in such a way that they are drawn into relationship Him also!