Summer Playlist Part 1

REVIEW & TALK-IT-OUT

Go through each main point and scripture from the message and use the corresponding questions in discussion with your group.  

POINT #1: HUNGER IS PART OF THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE. 

Hunger is a reoccurring condition. The most basic and familiar form of hunger is our hunger for food but human hunger goes way beyond food. 

TALK-IT-OUT #1:
What hunger from your humanity has caused you the most trouble in life? (ex. success, approval from others, addictions, money, love)

POINT #2: BEING HUNGRY IS PART OF BEING HEALTHY. 

Proverbs 16:26 (NIV)
The appetite of laborers works for them; their hunger drives them on.

Hunger moves you, motivates you, and causes you to have a vision of a better future. God wants us to be part of the creative process and hunger is the basis of creativity. 

TALK-IT-OUT #2: 
How can you harness the hunger inside of you to be creative and productive?

POINT #3: THE WAY YOU MANAGE HUMAN HUNGER WILL DETERMINE THE DIRECTION AND QUALITY OF YOUR LIFE.

When it comes to your human experience Jesus did not come to eliminate but to elevate. He came to give you the best human experience possible! He came to give life and that more abundant!

John 10:10 (NIV)
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.

TALK-IT-OUT #3: 
Are you currently living an abundant life? What does an abundant life look like to you?

READ ROMANS 7:14-25
We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. Or my flesh For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.
So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!

TALK-IT-OUT #4:
Describe the tension in your life right now between wanting to do what is right in God's eyes and still falling short. Are you at peace or at war with the fact that you are a sinner? 

POINT #4: BEING HUNGRY BEYOND THIS LIFE CAUSES US TO PURSUE A LIFE WITH ETERNAL PURPOSE.

You are not a human being who has spiritual experiences, you are a spiritual being having a human experience.

Ecclesiastes 3:11 (AMP)
He has made everything beautiful and appropriate in its time. He has also planted eternity [a sense of divine purpose] in the human heart [a mysterious longing which nothing under the sun can satisfy, except God]—yet man cannot find out (comprehend, grasp) what God has done (His overall plan) from the beginning to the end.

TALK-IT-OUT #5:
Have you ever struggled with the question, "What am I here on earth for?"

Ephesians 2:10 (NIV)
For we are God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

TALK-IT-OUT #6:
What are you doing currently to contribute toward the eternal purposes of God? What can you start doing to increase your contribution toward eternity?