Week 4: Living in Community
Our Weekly Spiritual Practice: EAT & DRINK
- Spend 5 mins meditating on Hebrews 10:23-25. Consider how you are spurring fellow Christians on toward love, good deeds and meeting together? Do you allow others to spurn you on also?
- Reflect on a time you practiced confession (of sin) and forgiveness in Christian community. Offer a prayer of thanks that you have these opportunities in God’s family. Is there anyone you need to forgive now? Any sin you need to confess this week?
- Romans 12:13 commands us to practice hospitality. This means to intentionally plan times of eating and drinking with friends who encourage us to become like Jesus. List the disciples of Jesus who you eat and drink with? Remember they may not be your family or social-friends.
- The practice for this week: organise or participate in a time of eating and drinking with some other disciples of Jesus. It may be a social invite to dinner or drinks at your house, a life group event, a birthday celebration or simply take communion with a friend. While together cross the line and ask how this friendship(s) could become deeper through Jesus.
Discussion Questions
- Share a time when living in Christian community helped bring healing to your life?
- If living in community is non-optional for disciples of Jesus then why do you think some forsake gathering, don’t participate, avoid confession and forgiveness and the like?
- Is the spiritual practice of living in community producing a healthy life group according to the 5 purposes: friendship, care, prayer, discipleship, evangelism.
- Individually share your hopes for growing in the practice of living in community. Then pray for each person once they have shared.