Live in Concert, Part III

Life Group Leaders,
Steve and his group are in Haiti right now, so I thought I’d provide you with a few questions to supplement the general questions you may use to further discuss the teaching from Sunday in your group. Hope it helps.
Jonathan

How has the way you thought about God changed over the years?

How has that affected lifestyle choices you’ve made both positively and negatively?

Dallas Willard defines worship as “an intentional tuning of the mind to God and ascribing to God all of the greatness and goodness and glory that belongs to him.”

What are philosophies, objects, goals, or persons that become easy for people to intentional tune their minds to, orient their thinking around, and ascribe greatness to other than God?

Why does that often become so easy to do?

If God is not an egocentric maniac, how does worshiping God meet a desperate need of ours more than a desperate need of God?

Talk and discuss some ways that you’ve witnessed or experienced “thinking affect behavior” and “behavior affecting thinking”?

Share some postures, actions, or disciplines that help you orient your thoughts around God?

(Possible Scriptures to discuss: Romans 8:5-7, Philippians 4:8-9, Psalm 16:8)

(Note from Jenny: Thanks so much Jonathan! Before Steve left we IM’ed some possible questions you could use or modify to “break the ice”:
*Did you receive any awards or superlatives in high school or college? If so, share one or two and the details.
*Think about the most egotistical person you personally know (now or in the past), what made them so hard to be around?
*Did anyone take Jonathan’s challenge in the email on Thursday to contact someone to express gratitude in a specific and personal way? If so, how did it go?