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Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money." Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, "If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that." As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil. If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn't do it, it is sin for them.James 4:13-17 NIV1. Verse 13 of James 4 doesn't seem to be statement that is all that bad and you have probably said something similar.....what is the issue with it?2. How would you describe the change in perspective that James is calling us to in your own words?3. How does this different outlook impact the way we see the opportunity for good in our life?4. When you think about sin is it more often acts of commission or omission? What are some acts of omission that you might be guilty of?

Esther 4:12-14God has you here for “such a time as this”Acts 8:26-29Listen to and follow the Holy SpiritWhy was Esther in the position she was in? How did God use those circumstances? How did Mordecai help her see that?How did Philip end up with the Ethiopian? What was the result?Do you believe God wants to use you in similar ways? How have you seen that play out in the past?

1. What are examples of some "secrets" that life has taught you?2. In what way has knowledge of these "secrets" impacted your life?3. What is a "hindsight 20/20" event in your story...what would you do differently?4. What is the moment in your story that most limits your confidence in helping others?5. What would it look like to see this (Q4) as a stage instead of a stumbling block?

1 Corinthians 12:4-11God has gifted every believer with a spiritual giftWhat is a spiritual gift?How can we know that we have them?What is their purpose?Why do some people struggle to believe they have them?What are some ways you’ve seen God use you?

Psalm 139:13-14You are a unique and wonderful creation of GodEphesians 2:8-10What do the words fearfully and wonderfully mean? What does that mean about you if you are fearfully and wonderfully made?What do you think about personality tests? Why?How is knowing yourself better helpful in your personal and spiritual life?What does it mean that you are created for good works? Do you believe that?

Matthew 28:16-2016 Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. 17 When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. 18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”What is the context of this passage? How does that context strengthen the command?Why does Jesus connect his authority to this last command that he gives?What is baptism? Why is it important?What are the characteristics of a disciple?How does the promise of Jesus’s presence comfort and encourage you?

But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. "Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?" And he said to him, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets." Matthew 22:34-40 ESVIs obedience to this command required? In what way is the second command like the first?Who is my neighbor?What does this kind of love look like?https://thegrovechurch.org/

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