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: It’s been said that trust is hard to gain and easy to lose. What’s one way to build trust?

A way to pray: Ask God to grow us in trusting Him, especially in the areas shared in the group discussion (see below). Pray that our own growth will help others in our lives to trust God, too, as we seek to see 2,000 people by 2022 baptized and growing in relationship with Jesus through the Word, prayer, and community.

Talk It Over:

• True or False: “Every sin is an exercise in failing to trust God.” What are my reasons for answering as I did? How does Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his own son help me better understand what it looks like to trust God completely?

• Where in my life am I most struggling to trust God right now? How does remembering God’s provision of a ram – and ultimately of His own Son – as substitute sacrifices for sin help me to grow in trusting Him in this area, too?

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: What’s one way you see God’s beauty displayed in His creation?

A way to pray: Ask God to help us grow in appreciating His beauty and showing it to others through our words and actions, as we seek to see 2,000 people by 2022 baptized and growing in relationship with Jesus through the Word, prayer, and community.

Talk It Over:

• Justice requires punishment for sin. Yet Genesis 3 tells how God in His mercy planned the worst of the punishment to fall on Himself. What do I appreciate about this, and what difference does that make in my day-to-day life?

• How have I experienced God’s mercy (not getting punishment I deserve) in my own life? How can I pass this on to someone else, such as by showing them mercy or by sharing my experience with them?

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: What’s one way someone in your life has shown you grace (undeserved favor/kindness)?

A way to pray: Pray for one another to be people of grace to those God has placed in our paths, as we seek to see 2,000 people by 2022 baptized and growing in relationship with Jesus through the Word, prayer, and community.

Talk It Over:

• How do I react toward others when they let me down? What does this response reveal about me? What would it look like to lean on the Lord in these situations instead?

• Grace (undeserved favor/kindness) bookends this letter (2 Timothy 1:2, 4:22). How can I begin and end with grace in my own interactions with others? And what can we do practically to help each other remember and be changed by grace every day?

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: What’s one way you enjoy serving others?

A way to pray: Ask the Lord to give us boldness, passion, and commitment to live out the ministry He has for each of us, as we seek to see 2,000 people by 2022 baptized and growing in relationship with Jesus through the Word, prayer, and community.

Talk It Over:

• Review Paul’s commands to Timothy (verse 2). Which of these is easiest and hardest for me to practice, and why? What growth step does the Lord want me to take right now?

• What ministry has the Lord given me? (See Timothy’s in verse 5.) What practical steps can I take to discover this (if I’m not sure) or to live this out more fully?