Group Discussion Guide
Your Story Speaks, Part 3
This guide is designed to help your group create a space for genuine connection and conversation within your discussion time. Don't feel pressured to address every question each week. Instead, allow the Holy Spirit to guide you as you lead your group in uncovering what God intends to communicate during your time together.
This guide comprises three sections: Loving, Learning, and Living. Each section aims to steer your conversation towards meaningful discussions about spiritual growth as individuals and as members of the body of Christ.
This guide comprises three sections: Loving, Learning, and Living. Each section aims to steer your conversation towards meaningful discussions about spiritual growth as individuals and as members of the body of Christ.
LOVING
First moments together as a group to connect and pray (approx. 10-15 min).
Open with prayer and invite God to be part of your conversation and relationship.
- How have you seen God at work in your life since the last time we met?
- What has been one high and one low since the last time we met?
- How did you do with living out what we talked about last time we met?
Open with prayer and invite God to be part of your conversation and relationship.
LEARNING
The majority of the group discussion is devoted to open dialogue, reflecting on God’s Word and its personal application to each of our lives (approx. 60-75 min).
Scripture References from Message: Acts 17:16-34
Big Idea from Message: Evangelism begins where you are, engaging the culture, inviting people to believe, and trusting God with the change.
Read Acts 17:16-34 together as a group. Evangelism is defined as the act of sharing the Christian gospel, or the message of Jesus Christ, with others, often with the aim of converting them to Christianity. What do you think of when you hear the word, “evangelism?”
The “neutral spaces” referred to in the message are the everyday environments that aren't overtly spiritual or religious, but where people naturally gather, work, or interact. What are the “neutral spaces” in your life?
If you were Paul and you noticed the altar to the “unknown god,” how would you have engaged the people gathered around you?
In verse 24, Paul describes God as the one who “made the world and everything in it.” Why do you think this is important for the point he is trying to make to the gathered crowd?
Read verses 32-34 again. If you’ve ever shared your story of faith with others, how did they receive it? Did you have mixed reactions like the Athenians to Paul’s message?
Scripture References from Message: Acts 17:16-34
Big Idea from Message: Evangelism begins where you are, engaging the culture, inviting people to believe, and trusting God with the change.
Read Acts 17:16-34 together as a group. Evangelism is defined as the act of sharing the Christian gospel, or the message of Jesus Christ, with others, often with the aim of converting them to Christianity. What do you think of when you hear the word, “evangelism?”
The “neutral spaces” referred to in the message are the everyday environments that aren't overtly spiritual or religious, but where people naturally gather, work, or interact. What are the “neutral spaces” in your life?
If you were Paul and you noticed the altar to the “unknown god,” how would you have engaged the people gathered around you?
In verse 24, Paul describes God as the one who “made the world and everything in it.” Why do you think this is important for the point he is trying to make to the gathered crowd?
Read verses 32-34 again. If you’ve ever shared your story of faith with others, how did they receive it? Did you have mixed reactions like the Athenians to Paul’s message?
LIVING
The challenge for the week ahead is to grow in our faith and lovingly hold each other accountable through the community.
This week, consider what your neutral spaces are. How can you tell your story of faith there? Who are the people in those spaces and how can you best engage them with God’s story of love? Make a plan for how you’ll step into engagement this week and spend time in prayer asking God to give you the opportunity and the wisdom to tell your story well!
This week, consider what your neutral spaces are. How can you tell your story of faith there? Who are the people in those spaces and how can you best engage them with God’s story of love? Make a plan for how you’ll step into engagement this week and spend time in prayer asking God to give you the opportunity and the wisdom to tell your story well!