Week Three: Relinquishing My Preferences
October 3
 

CONNECT TO EACH OTHER

        Icebreaker – Share with your group what movies or TV shows you enjoy watching, and what you like about them.

        Each Person Share – Do you prefer the traditional early service worship style or contemporary late service worship style?

CONNECT TO THE WORD

        Read the Scripture lesson for this week, from Mark 10:35-45.

CONNECT TO THE BOOK

        Read and discuss as a group the questions from chapter three, found on pages 41-42.

        Read aloud together the Third Pledge found on page 41.

CONNECT TO GOD IN PRAYER

        Ask your group for prayer requests before you start. You may begin with a prayer that starts like this.

        Heavenly Father, You sent Your Son to be the servant of all. We thank you for His sacrificial love that led Him to the cross for our salvation and benefit. Give us that same servant heart, that we can set aside our preferences and desires and work together for the building up of Your kingdom, as servants of the Most High God, and united in Christian love. We also ask that You would…