Matt talked about Jeremiah 17:9. NLT
“the human heart is the deceitful and hard to understand.”
- How has your own heart deceived you in the past?
- Experience is a good teacher, share a time when you knew God was telling you to make a certain choice and you chose differently? How did that turn out?
- Like question 2, experience is a good teacher, share a time when you did choose what God wanted and how that turned Out?
- Proverbs 16:2 NLT says, “people may be pure in there own eyes but the Lord examines the heart”. How are you wired to make choices? (God, money, family, time) What influences your choices most?
- If you are comfortable enough, talk about the choices you are struggling with right now.
- Do you believe God has my best interest at heart?
Steve Gill - February 16, 2025
February 16, 2025
The key idea behind our series is this; Living a life with open hands is how God works in us and through us. Today’s Key Idea: How do I live with open hands when it comes to offense? 1. Be intentional with the process. 2. Meet privately with the other person. “If your brother or sister sins against you, go and point out their fault, just between the two of you. If they listen to you, you have won them over. 16 But if they will not listen, take one or two others along, so that ‘every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.’ 17 If they still refuse to listen, tell it to the church; and if they refuse to listen even to the church, treat them as you would a pagan or a tax collector. Matthew 18:15-17 Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ. Ephesians 4.15 Today’s personal application: 1. Who am I walking in offense with today? 2. How and when will I start the conversation with them?
From Series: "Open Hands"
Open hands are often symbolic of humility while closed hands are often symbolic of control. Each is a worthy word picture of what often happens in our hearts and how we live our lives. As we follow Jesus, this is the question that we are faced with. How do we live with a posture of open hands so that Christ can work in us and through us? Join us for this new series as together we learn to live like Jesus with open hands.
