1. General:
a. Two weeks
b. Fence Post stories; review roster, review general similarities, Joseph?
c. What have we gained as a group by sharing our stories? (trust, vulnerability, connectedness, confidentiality
d. Why is it so important that we keep the confidentiality and not even tell the other men’s confidences to our wives?
e. Why is it good to tell our wives the new truths from God that we are experiencing from the G2G experience?
f. Discuss the two booklets, Tyranny of the Urgent and My Heart, Christ’s Home in the remaining time.
(a) TotU, Are each of us, truly, committed to making the seeking of God's way as primary in our lives? Each man..... then, making Him the important thing, what does that look like?
(i) What does a Spiritual inventory each week mean to you? Are you willing to do it?
(b) MH,CH I recognized many rooms I hadn't invited Jesus into. Did you identify one room you'd like to have cleaned out?
(i) Talk about that room right now. Let's invite Him into it.
g. The Old & New Testament.
(a) How was the Bible, Old Testament compiled?
(b) What's the general theme of the OT?
(a) How was the Bible, New Testament compiled?
(b) What's the general theme of the NT?
2. A man after God's own heart. Description?
a. Give an honest summary that describes where you are NOW in your relationship with God.
Let's look at our Covenant again. Can we sign them?
3. What was God looking for relative to a man after His own heart; David?
4. How will we encourage each other?
Prayer/accountability partners. What does that look like?
Garren/Garrett
John Leggitt/Bob Vinson
John Leighton/Kevin Dorsch
Bill Poirier/Kyle Weatherwax
Ryan Witherspoon/Joseph Paramore
Need a Co-Facilitator or 2
5. The Pursuit of God
a. athirst to taste for themselves the "piercing sweetness" of the love of Christ.
b. Sound Bible exposition is an imperative must in the Church of the Living God
c. The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God, that they may enter into Him, that they may delight in His Presence, may taste and know the inner sweetness of the very God Himself in the core and center of their hearts.
d. We pursue God because, and only because, He has first put an urge within us that spurs us to the pursuit. "No man can come to me," said our Lord, "except the Father which hath sent me draw him," and it is by this very prevenient drawing that God takes from us every vestige of credit for the act of coming. The impulse to pursue God originates with God, but the out working of that impulse is our following hard after Him.
e. In making Himself known to us He stays by the familiar pattern of personality. He communicates with us through the avenues of our minds, our wills and our emotions. The continuous and unembarrassed interchange of love and thought between God and the soul of the redeemed man is the throbbing heart of New Testament religion.
f. Being made in His image we have within us the capacity to know Him. In our sins we lack only the power. The moment the Spirit has quickened us to life in regeneration our whole being senses its kinship to God and leaps up in joyous recognition. That is the heavenly birth without which we cannot see the Kingdom of God. It is, however, not an end but an inception, for now begins the glorious pursuit, the heart's happy exploration of the infinite riches of the Godhead. That is where we begin,
g. The stiff and wooden quality about our religious lives is a result of our lack of holy desire. Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth. Acute desire must be present or there will be no manifestation of Christ to His people. He waits to be wanted.
h. Prayer
"O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need of further grace. I am ashamed of my lack of desire. O God, the Triune God, I want to want Thee; I long to be filled with longing; I thirst to be made more thirsty still. Show me Thy glory, I pray Thee, that so I may know Thee indeed. Begin in mercy a new work of love within me. Say to my soul, "Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away." Then give me grace to rise and follow Thee up from this misty lowland where I have wandered so long. In Jesus' Name, Amen."
a. Two weeks
b. Fence Post stories; review roster, review general similarities, Joseph?
c. What have we gained as a group by sharing our stories? (trust, vulnerability, connectedness, confidentiality
d. Why is it so important that we keep the confidentiality and not even tell the other men’s confidences to our wives?
e. Why is it good to tell our wives the new truths from God that we are experiencing from the G2G experience?
f. Discuss the two booklets, Tyranny of the Urgent and My Heart, Christ’s Home in the remaining time.
(a) TotU, Are each of us, truly, committed to making the seeking of God's way as primary in our lives? Each man..... then, making Him the important thing, what does that look like?
(i) What does a Spiritual inventory each week mean to you? Are you willing to do it?
(b) MH,CH I recognized many rooms I hadn't invited Jesus into. Did you identify one room you'd like to have cleaned out?
(i) Talk about that room right now. Let's invite Him into it.
g. The Old & New Testament.
(a) How was the Bible, Old Testament compiled?
(b) What's the general theme of the OT?
(a) How was the Bible, New Testament compiled?
(b) What's the general theme of the NT?
2. A man after God's own heart. Description?
a. Give an honest summary that describes where you are NOW in your relationship with God.
Let's look at our Covenant again. Can we sign them?
3. What was God looking for relative to a man after His own heart; David?
4. How will we encourage each other?
Prayer/accountability partners. What does that look like?
Garren/Garrett
John Leggitt/Bob Vinson
John Leighton/Kevin Dorsch
Bill Poirier/Kyle Weatherwax
Ryan Witherspoon/Joseph Paramore
Need a Co-Facilitator or 2
5. The Pursuit of God
a. athirst to taste for themselves the "piercing sweetness" of the love of Christ.
b. Sound Bible exposition is an imperative must in the Church of the Living God
c. The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God, that they may enter into Him, that they may delight in His Presence, may taste and know the inner sweetness of the very God Himself in the core and center of their hearts.
d. We pursue God because, and only because, He has first put an urge within us that spurs us to the pursuit. "No man can come to me," said our Lord, "except the Father which hath sent me draw him," and it is by this very prevenient drawing that God takes from us every vestige of credit for the act of coming. The impulse to pursue God originates with God, but the out working of that impulse is our following hard after Him.
e. In making Himself known to us He stays by the familiar pattern of personality. He communicates with us through the avenues of our minds, our wills and our emotions. The continuous and unembarrassed interchange of love and thought between God and the soul of the redeemed man is the throbbing heart of New Testament religion.
f. Being made in His image we have within us the capacity to know Him. In our sins we lack only the power. The moment the Spirit has quickened us to life in regeneration our whole being senses its kinship to God and leaps up in joyous recognition. That is the heavenly birth without which we cannot see the Kingdom of God. It is, however, not an end but an inception, for now begins the glorious pursuit, the heart's happy exploration of the infinite riches of the Godhead. That is where we begin,
g. The stiff and wooden quality about our religious lives is a result of our lack of holy desire. Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth. Acute desire must be present or there will be no manifestation of Christ to His people. He waits to be wanted.
h. Prayer
"O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need of further grace. I am ashamed of my lack of desire. O God, the Triune God, I want to want Thee; I long to be filled with longing; I thirst to be made more thirsty still. Show me Thy glory, I pray Thee, that so I may know Thee indeed. Begin in mercy a new work of love within me. Say to my soul, "Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away." Then give me grace to rise and follow Thee up from this misty lowland where I have wandered so long. In Jesus' Name, Amen."
