(This guide is designed to give helpful hints in preparing & leading your group in discussion)

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IN WITH THE NEW

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

 

COMMUNITY INTENTIONS: Please pray for the intentions of all our Communities

WARM UP QUESTIONS:

  1. What is your best or worst habit? How many people would know that about you?

 

SCRIPTURE STUDY: Mark 4:2-9

 

REFLECTION QUESTIONS:

 

  1. What are some characteristics of the “fertile soil” kind of person?
  1. Do people have a choice as to what type of soil they are? Can the type of soil change?
  1. What stands in the way of you becoming “fertile soil”?
  1. If we find we are rocky soil, what can we do? Are we doomed, or can we still be fruitful?
  1. What does it look like to ‘bear fruit?’
  1. Bruce talked about ‘a Rule of Life that gives power to live fruitfully, a way to achieve convictions and strength in togetherness.’ Do you have a practice, ritual or habit that you would call your rule of life personally or as a family?
  1. Looking back at your notes from this week’s Message, was there anything that particularly caught your attention, challenged or confused you?