Growing in Christ Together, Leader Guide: A 16-Week Discipleship Journey by Jeff Vanderstelt

Author:Jeff Vanderstelt
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Christian
ISBN: 9780996849388
Published: 2017-10-09T23:00:00+00:00

Day 1: Psalm 54

Day 2: Psalm 55

Day 3: Psalm 56

Day 4: Psalm 57

Day 5: Psalm 65

Day 6: Psalm 67

WEEK 10

Worship

Week 10

Big Picture

God uses everything that happens to us—even our struggles—to make us more like Jesus

My behavior comes from my heart

My circumstances trigger my heart

We sin because we do not trust God and do not worship God

Opening [10 minutes]

Take a few minutes to see how each of you is doing and encourage each other. Be careful, as this time can easily get away from you. Make sure you talk about the “later this week” from the last time you got together.

Setup [1 minute]

Our struggles reveal our hearts. Why do we do the things we do? Where do evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, and malice all come from? Jesus gives us the answer. . . .

Discover

Read [10 minutes]

Don’t you see that nothing that enters a man from the outside can make him “unclean”? For it doesn’t go into his heart but into his stomach, and then out of his body... For from within, out of men’s hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. All these evils come from inside and make a man “unclean.” —Mark 7:18–23 NIV

For whatever does not proceed from faith is sin. —Romans 14:23 ESV

Pray Together [10 minutes]

Pray together through these passages. You may talk with the Father about questions such as this:

What kinds of things have you seen come out of your heart? Pray for each other. Ask God to give you the wisdom and grace to live by faith.

Article: All of Life is Worship [10 minutes]

From the Story we can see that humans were made to worship. We were made to adore, to long for, to delight in, to desire. We were made to have the deepest longings of our hearts met by someone or something outside of ourselves.

When we look to something for significance, acceptance, approval, satisfaction, fulfillment, joy, security, etc., that very act is worship. We are ascribing worth to something. We are saying, “That thing is what will make me significant! That person will make me acceptable. That person will give me security. That thing will save me!”

You see, all of life is worship. We are ALWAYS worshiping. Everything we do is an affirmation of who or what we are looking to for significance, security, approval, etc.

Your life is a billboard; you are advertising the thing that is most important to you. “This is what I value! This is what saves me!” That constant advertisement, “Here’s what I’m all about!” is worship. All of life is worship.

Your life is a garden hose that is always on. Worship always flows out of us like water out of that hose. Where are we going to point the hose? Something is going to get wet with our worship. Who or what is it?

There is no neutral on the worship gearshift of your life. You are always in gear, and you are always in drive or reverse.

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