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Titolo: 6 Things We Should Know About God Participant WorkBook: A Six-Week Small Group Experience
Editore: Abingdon Press
Data di pubblicazione: 2014
Lingua: Inglese
ISBN 10: 1426794568
ISBN 13: 9781426794568
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What are God’s qualities, and what effect do they have on us? In this simple, inspiring study, pastor and author Tom Berlin introduces us to the living God and urges us to respond. Includes Scripture, helpful quotations, and space for journaling. 1. God Loves You 2. God Understands You 3. God Forgives You 4. God Wants You to Be Free 5. God Wants You to Change 6. God Wants to Be With You Forever

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6 Things: We Should Know About God

Participant Workbook

By Tom Berlin, Karen Berlin

Abingdon Press

Welcome!, 
How to Use This Book, 
Week 1. God Loves You, 
Week 2. God Understands You, 
Week 3. God Forgives You, 
Week 4. God Wants You to Be Free, 
Week 5. God Wants You to Change, 
Week 6. God Wants to Be With You Forever, 
Notes,

CHAPTER 1

Week One

God Loves You

Day 1

Today's Scripture

Psalm 139:1-18; 1 John 3:1-3

Key Verse

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

Psalm 139:14 NIV

1. In Psalm 139:7-12, what is the psalmist teaching about God's presence with us?

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2. What does it mean to see yourself as a child of God?

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Going Deeper

This psalm features King David singing about the wonders of God. David celebrates because while God knows the whole universe, God also knows and loves him intimately. This text, which we read, was sung in biblical times as a popular song of celebration and an act of praise. The message still resounds today: God knows all of us from our first breath to our eternal life.

There are countless things in Creation, but God specifically cares not only about our names but our lives, our struggles, and our joys as well. God is working for our good but gives us the choice to follow or to go our own way.

David chose to respond to God's offer of a loving relationship with praise, and his life was blessed for his obedience. David's psalm pushes us to consider how we will choose to live.

Trivia Tidbit

According to BBC Science, when first "knit together" in the mother's womb, a baby has around 300 bone parts. Some bones fuse together over time, and by adulthood we end up with 206 bones.

Going Deeper Questions

3. God is aware of all our ways and knows our words before we speak them. How does that thought make you feel about God? How can God know our thoughts and futures and yet still give us free will?

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4. "What we will be has not yet been made known" (1 John 3:2). As Christians, we do not know everything about heaven, but we do know that we will have a "spiritual body" and live in a perfect relationship with God and others. What does that mean? What will it be like then, and how should we be striving for it now?

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Day 2

Today's Scripture

Romans 8

Key Verse

For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, "Abba, Father."

Romans 8:15 NKJV

1. Paul begins this passage with these words of encouragement: "There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus." What does this phrase mean to you?

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2. Read verse 15 aloud three times. How does this statement make you feel?

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Going Deeper

Adoption in the ancient world was a big deal, just as it is today. It was an important legal proceeding with witnesses. Those who adopted someone entrusted this child with their good name and reputation, as well a portion of their inheritance. Usually, this process involved the symbolic selling of the adopted person to the new parent. Thus, the adopted person was bought with a price and officially made a part of the family.

Paul tells us that God has taken this a step further, not only adopting us but also making us co-heirs to the kingdom. Not only that, we are invited to call God Abba, which is an Aramaic term meaning not just Father, but "Dad" or "Daddy."

We are invited to relate to God as we would to a loving parent. Children often do not understand or value the sacrifices parents make for them. This may be why in his letters Paul calls Christians to greater maturity. As we mature, we understand all that God has done to offer a relationship to us, just as adult children understand all their parents did for them over the years.

Trivia Tidbit

The Holy Spirit is referred to about twenty times in Romans 8 alone. That's sixteen more times than in the first seven chapters of Romans combined!

Going Deeper Questions

3. The price of our adoption was the death of Jesus Christ, God in human form, and yet we are allowed to call God our "Abba, Father." How will you celebrate and thank God for the love Christ showed us on the cross?

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4. What does it mean to "walk according to the Spirit" in our everyday lives? What does it teach us about people?

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Day 3

Today's Scripture

Matthew 5:1-12; 6:25-34

Key Verse

But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

Matthew 6:33 NIV

1. In today's Scripture, consider the word blessed. What distinguishes being "blessed" from being "happy"?

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2. Worry is a troublesome cancer that removes God's peace in the lives of many of us. God's antidote to worry is for us to trust. State in your own words the trust Christ offers in Matthew 6:33.

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Going Deeper

Don't worry. Be happy. It seems a bit too easy, doesn't it? With so much going on in our lives, it seems almost impossible just to let go and not worry about all the things that could go wrong.

At the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus promises help and blessings for those who trust in the Lord, regardless of how their lives are going. Those who hunger will be filled. Those who are persecuted will be rewarded. Those who forgive will be forgiven. When we try to hold onto our plans and fret about all the things that could happen, we lose the blessing of depending on God as our provider.

Because we know we can't control the outcomes and impact of our decisions, we worry. Jesus asks us to let go of the worry so that he can take care of things. We will find ourselves in tough situations sometimes, but when we rely on God and trust God enough to be obedient, many things will work out through God's blessings.

Trivia Tidbit

Though rendered as "blessed" in most translations of the Beatitudes, the Greek word makarios can also mean "happy," "fortunate," or "prosperous."

Going Deeper Questions

3. Which area of the Beatitudes do you feel best able to live out? Which one feels difficult? What might assist you in gaining the blessings that Jesus speaks of here?

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4. Is being "blessed" an action that can be experienced multiple times or a continual state of being? How can a blessing be lost or taken away?

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5. What is the difference between planning for the future and worrying?

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6. What do you worry about more: things you can control or things you cannot? What methods have you found that enable you to leave your anxiety in God's hands?

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Day 4

Today's Scripture

Luke 15

Key Verse

So he got up and went to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him.

Luke 15:20 NIV

1. In the Parable of the Lost Son, what do you learn about the heart of the father as you contrast his responses to the elder and younger sons?

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2. Why do you think the father's view of the lost son is so different from the son's view of himself in this story?

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Going Deeper

The Parable of the Lost Son, also called the Parable of the Prodigal Son, is well known, but we don't usually think of what the words mean. By definition, prodigal means extravagant or lavish, which is a good description of the son in this story.

However, the word can also refer to the father in this situation, a man who was extravagant in his love and forgiveness despite the wrongs he had suffered. The son, in asking for his portion of the inheritance, had communicated that his inheritance was more important to him than his father was. Essentially, the son was saying that his father's life was getting in the way of the inheritance. In any culture this would be hurtful and insulting. Amazingly, the father gave the son his portion.

More amazing still, when the son squandered the money and came crawling back, the father was there to welcome him home. The father restored his son to the family he had left. The father even threw a party for the boy and rejoiced that his son had come home, displaying an extravagant love that seemed to know no bounds.

We too can be prodigal sons and daughters, wandering far away. But we have a prodigal father who is full of compassion and abounding in love. The father in this parable showed remarkable grace. He gave his son forgiveness that was not earned, with no strings attached.

Trivia Tidbit

The silver coin in the Parable of the Lost Coin was a Greek drachma, which was equal to one day's wage and was nearly equivalent to the Roman denarius.

Going Deeper Questions

3. What is the most important person or thing in your life? What would you do if you lost that person or thing? What would you do to get it back?

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4. In the three parables in Luke 15, notice how in each case the finder (of the sheep, the coin, and the son) called the people together and rejoiced extravagantly. Describe some times you celebrated because people who had been lost were found or came to their senses.

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5. We often forget that in the Parable of the Lost Son, there were two sinful sons: the one who went away from the father and the one who stayed with the father but harbored inward sins such as pride and bitterness. Which son do you relate to, and how can all of us learn from our mistakes to be better children of God?

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Day 5

Today's Scripture

Ephesians 4

Key Verse

But speaking the truth in love, we must grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ.

Ephesians 4:15 NRSV

1. At the beginning of today's Scripture, what is Paul urging the readers of his letter to do?

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2. What does it mean in verses 22-24 to "put away" and to "clothe yourselves"? What is one way you have experienced this contrast in your faith journey so far?

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Going Deeper

Paul often describes the church as "the body of Christ," an amalgamation of parts with different strengths and purposes that come together to form one spiritual unit. He means that God has made each one of us in such a way that we have something different to offer one another and the ministry of the church.

When we contribute our time and talents to the church, we truly give it a gift. God is blessing the church through each of us. When we fail to participate, the body as a whole suffers, because each of us has an important role, and each of our gifts contributes to the whole.

If God has taken the effort to fashion each of us in such a way that we have something to offer, then each of us really is one of God's favorite children. You are as irreplaceable in your church as a child is in a family.

Trivia Tidbit

Ephesus appears in six books of the New Testament (Acts, 1 Corinthians, Ephesians, 1 and 2 Timothy, and Revelation) and is traditionally believed to be the final resting place of the apostle John.

Going Deeper Questions

3. According to Paul, what is necessary for the church to be unified as a body?

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4. Think of someone who is a spiritual mentor to you. What gifts of the Spirit do you see in that person, and how are those gifts expressed?

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5. What gifts do you feel that God has blessed you with, and how can you better use these gifts to serve?

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(Continues...)

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