If You Want God To Show Up In Your Life
Student Take-Over 2018
Review this week's message.
Key Thought: Are you sitting or are you serving?
Start talking. Find a conversation starter for your group.
· What’s one of the biggest changes, aside from smartphones, teens have now from when you were their age?
· Describe some neat ways you’ve seen people use their platform to tell their faith story.
Start thinking. Ask a thoughtful question.
· Has there been a time when you didn’t open your eyes or simply refused to do what God was asking of you?
· What have you been set free from? What’s YOUR story?
· What does a personal platform look like? As a group, ask God to show you all the areas of your personal platform and make a list so everyone has a full view of their own.
Start sharing. Choose questions that create openness.
· Pastor Nate asked “Are you sitting or are you serving?” Which is it for you? If you’re sitting, how can you make serving a priority in your story?
· If you are serving, share your favorite memory of God using you in your CU serving role.
· Share a time when you experienced God’s grace, mercy or both. How did it change you?
Start praying. Be bold, and pray with power.
Father God, thank you for loving us. Thank you for allowing us to be the kind of church that would serve so many students, introduce them to You and come alongside them as You transform their lives. Please help us all to open our eyes, define our personal platforms and provide us with the opportunities to share our story of how You loved us, blessed us and welcomed us back into Your amazing family. We ask all this in Your Son’s precious and holy name. Amen
Start doing. Commit to a step and live it out this week.
· Describe how you can use your own personal platform to share your story and identify one or more people God has placed in front of you that need to hear it.
· As a group, find a way to serve together at least once over the next month. If you need assistance with this, the leader of this LifeGroup can reach out to your Life Group Pastor or Associate Campus Pastor.
Scriptures
Then he spit on the ground, made mud with the saliva, and spread the mud over the blind man’s eyes. He told him, “Go wash yourself in the pool of Siloam” (Siloam means “sent”). So the man went and washed and came back seeing! John 9:6-8
As Jesus was walking along, he saw a man who had been blind from birth. “Rabbi,” his disciples asked him, “why was this man born blind? Was it because of his own sins or his parents’ sins?” “It was not because of his sins or his parents’ sins,” Jesus answered. “This happened so the power of God could be seen in him. John 9:1-3
The Pharisees asked the man all about it. So he told them, “He put the mud over my eyes, and when I washed it away, I could see!” John 9:15
“I don’t know whether he is a sinner,” the man replied. “But I know this: I was blind, and now I can see!” John 9:25
Message by Pastor Nate Dooley, NextGen Pastor of Church Unlimited