Week 7
Bible Reading
Daily readings from the last week:
Luke 21-John 4
Reflect
What stood out to you from your daily readings over the last week? Any questions?
How did you go with what you said you’d do last week?
Discuss
Have someone read the passage and use the SOAP method to explore the text:
S - Scripture (read scripture together)
O - Observe (what do we see? What does it make us think?)
A - Apply (what does this mean for my life?)
P - Pray (pray together)
Don’t Miss
Hospitality: For the religious people in Jesus’ day it was hugely frowned upon to eat with “sinners” yet Jesus did it repeatedly. Food is a basic human need, and so there is something deeply uniting about eating with others. Jesus knew that there was something about eating with others that breaks down barriers like conversation on its own is unable to do. It was such a regular part of his ministry, we need to make sure it features regularly in our lives.
Learn
God has always desired His people to be a blessing to others in the world. As people who believe in Jesus, we have been given the greatest gift. God’s desire is for us to live our lives in a way that blesses others and helps them to believe in Jesus too. This week we are going to learn a tool that will help with that - it’s called BLESS.
BLESS reminds us of five practices that can help us to bless people in our world who don’t know Jesus. Our hope is to be trusted enough to share the message of Jesus with them one day. Over each of the next five sessions, we’re going to explore one of these BLESS practices. Today we start with B—Begin with Prayer.
Write a list of people in your life who don’t know about Jesus.
Pray
Let’s take a few moments to pray and ask God to help us find ways of being a blessing to these people.
Take some time to be quiet and listen to any ideas that God may be trying to give you.
Having prayed and listened, does anything immediately come to mind?
Pray about the other things that have stood out to you today.
Next Steps
How are you going to make time and remember to pray for the people in your list?
Who are you going to tell about what you’ve been learning?
Daily readings for this week: John 5-11