Group Plan | Fall 2023
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Session 1
Social
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Session 2
Group Launch Part 1
We hope your group is a place where you connect relationally and grow spiritually. During the next few months, you’ll explore topics related to life and faith but this session is all about getting to know one another.
Don’t have any new members in your group? Start with the Group Checkpoint for Session 1 instead.
Session 3
Group Launch Part 2
The goal of a group is to provide everyone the opportunity to pursue authentic community and spiritual growth.
Session 4
Serve for Be Rich
We have different For Projects to make it simple to serve our neighbors, community, and our world.
Session 5
Starting Point Part 1
Physical life is one of many starting points. Your formal education had a starting point. Your career had a starting point. Your romantic life had a starting point. Your experience as a parent had a starting point. Faith has a starting point as well.
Be sure to listen to the “Start” episode of The Starting Point Podcast before your group meets.
Session 6
Social/Fall Break
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Session 7
Starting Point Part 2
During childhood, you may have been handed a faith framework through which you began to view the world. For many of us, that childhood framework didn't survive the rigors of adulthood.
Be sure to listen to this week’s episode of The Starting Point Podcast before your group meets.
Session 8
Starting Point Part 3
The three largest faith traditions—Judaism, Islam, and Christianity—claim the same starting point: a man named Abraham. God made a series of promises and Abraham’s responses to those promises had large implications.
Be sure to listen to this week’s episode of The Starting Point Podcast before your group meets.
Session 9
Starting Point Part 4
Rules are often the centerpiece of religious life. What if a relationship with God doesn’t depend on our obedience to a set of rules?
Be sure to listen to this week’s episode of The Starting Point Podcast before your group meets.
Session 10
Social/Break
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Session 11
Starting Point Part 5
Guilt is powerful. Shame can be crippling. We all have things in our pasts that haunt us. We know we can do better from this point forward, but how are we supposed to fix the past?
Be sure to listen to this week’s episode of The Starting Point Podcast before your group meets.
Session 12
Starting Point Part 6
We often settle into a bargaining posture with God. “God, if you will...I promise I will…” We all do it. But is that really how God wants us to relate to him?
Be sure to listen to this week’s episode of The Starting Point Podcast before your group meets.
Session 14
Starting Point Part 7
We constantly look for evidence to support what we believe. But how do we know that Christianity isn’t just a made-up concept with massive success?
Be sure to listen to this week’s episode of The Starting Point Podcast before your group meets.
Session 15
Starting Point Part 8
Jesus predicted he would start a movement—the church—that would spread all over the earth outlasting the Roman Empire. It would change the world. Here we are, two thousand years later, and Jesus’ church gathering is still going strong.
Be sure to listen to this week’s episode of The Starting Point Podcast before your group meets.