Hosts
Make sure to start off with prayer. Then choose one or more questions to open up with.
- What is your dream job/career?
- What is your dream vacation?
Message Discussion Questions
The following questions will help guide your discussions and give your group some opportunities to open up and share.
- Thinking back on this week's message, what stood out to you the most?
- If you were to get really honest… what would you say is God’s beckoning in your life right now?
- List the things that you need to leave behind to follow God's beckoning onward.
- Have you ever made a single decision that changed everything?
- Have you ever had to get past the pain of loss in order to move your life forward?
- Do you feel like your attitude needs adjusting or your passion needs stirring?
Live It Out
Encourage your group to start doing. Commit to a step, and live it out this week.
- Ask God to reveal the area that he is calling you onward.
- Make a decision to answer that call and then tell someone you trust about your decision.
- Come up with a plan to make the changes necessary to answer God's call onward.
Key Scriptures
I Kings 19:21 (NIV)
So Elisha left him and went back. He took his yoke of oxen and slaughtered them. He burned the plowing equipment to cook the meat and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he set out to follow Elijah and became his servant.
Philippians 3:14 (MSG)
. . . God is beckoning us onward—to Jesus. I’m off and running, and I’m not turning back.
2 Timothy 1:6 (NIV)
For this reason, I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands.
Closing Thoughts
- Finish group with prayer requests and praise reports.
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