March 11th, 2011
How do people hear about HUMC?
Is there a consistent plan for welcoming visitors who attend worship, children’s
programs, studies, small groups, and other ministries of the church?
What contact do visitors receive and from whom in the first days after visiting?
Which groups in your church are the easiest for new people to join?
How did you become a part of HUMC?
What obstacles made it difficult to feel like you belonged?
How do you feel about talking to other people about your church?
When was the last time you invited someone to attend or participate in a ministry of the church?
In what ways can we show different forms that hospitality?
Give some examples of how applying radical hospitality could change a congregation.
What is your description of radical hospitality and explain how it differs from ordinary hospitality?
Mental Activity:
Take a walk through our church in your mind or physically as a first time visitor. What you see, what you smell and hear, and what you notice that is welcoming and inviting and helpful, and what you find confusing or uninviting or forbidding. Now imagine moving through the building from the point of view of a child, a teenager, a mother with a baby, a person with a disability.
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November 23rd, 2010
This week’s text is Matthew 24:36-44
What are the dangers of looking for the Return of Jesus?
What are the dangers of not looking for His return?
What should we do as we are awaiting His return?
Why do you clean your physical house before a guest arrives?
If you knew Jesus was returning tomorrow what would you do first?
What do you need to do to be prepared for His return?
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November 18th, 2010
This week’s text is Luke 23:32-43
If you could make one choice over again what would it be?
Will your bad choices or decisions keep you out of heaven?
How can we enter the door of heaven?
Why do we rebel against God?
What are the true signs of repentance?
How does it feel to know God does not hold your sin against you?
What is your final answer Heaven or Hell?
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November 10th, 2010
This week’s text Joshua 1:1-9
If you were able to know what was going to happen before it happened, how would you use that knowledge?
Would you use it to enrich yourself? If you knew that the stock market was going to go up, would you buy low & sell high, & make a lot of money? Would you?
Would you use it to help those in need? If you knew that someone was going to be in trouble & needed help, would you rush to help them?
Would you become a hero? If you knew someone was in danger & would die, would you be there to prevent that from happening?
What would you do if you knew what was going to happen tomorrow?
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November 3rd, 2010
Our text this week was Psalm 27: 1-9
What steps do we as Christians need to take to be victorious in our Spiritual Battles?
Do you believe in Spiritual Warfare?
How do the following factors determine victory or defeat in a spiritual battle?
Where should our focus be when we are in a spiritual battle?
How does of fellowship with God determine the outcome of our spiritual battle?
How can living right help be victorious in the midst of a spiritual battle?
Right now in your life are you winning or losing life’s battles?
What do you need to do so you will win more battles than you are right now?
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October 27th, 2010
Ways to glorify God on Halloween.
1. Don’t turn out the lights and ignore it. Halloween won’t go away.
2. If you’re staying home: buy some candy, answer the door and when you put candy in the children’s bags include some information about the church or a Gospel tract.
3. If you have children, don’t take fun away from them, go “Trick-or-Treating” with them. And take some tracts to hand out along the way.
4. Instead of playing scary music, play Christian music really loud.
5. Have a Halloween party and instruct everyone to come as a Bible character.
6. Buy a pumpkin and carve a cross in it, and let the light of Jesus shine forth.
7. PRAY! Pray for the safety of the children who will be out on that night, but more importantly pray for opportunities to share the Gospel.
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October 20th, 2010
Luke 18:9-14
What does a real Christian look like?
What does a real Christian do?
Why is so hard for Christians to be real?
Is there a person in your life whom you believe to be a real Christian?
What about their life makes you feel this way?
If you were to ask 10 people who know you if you were a real Christian, how do you think they would answer?
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October 13th, 2010
Who’s way is best Your Way or God’s Way?
Why do we always insist on getting our way?
What will it take for you to give in and let God have His way?
Do you realize as long as you insist on getting your way, you are missing a blessing God wants to give?
“It is better to sleep on what you plan to do than to be kept awake by what you’ve done” How have has this been true in your life?
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October 3rd, 2010
This week’s text was Isa 53:4-6
How have you witnessed God’s healing in your life?
Do miracles still happen today? If not, why not?
Why do we so easily stray off of God’s path for our lives?
In what area of your life do you need to experience God’s healing?
Do you pray for others to be healed?
Think of a time when you witnessed God’s miraculous healing?
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September 30th, 2010
This week’s text was 2 Kings 5:8-15
Why did Naaman refuse to do something which was so simple?
When God asks us to do something simple how are we like Naaman?
Think of a time in your life when you said, “Okay God, But”.
Do we at times say a conditional yes to God? Why?
Do you have regrets in your life looking back?
What if you didn’t say “if only” to God years ago, how would your life be different today?
What are the lessons we can learn from this passage of scripture.
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