Relationships worth Fighting For: Finding the Right Person

Genesis 24 and selected Scriptures

Connect:

• Share how you have seen God in the Highs and Lows of your week.

Prayer:

Pray that God would lead your discussion time and bring fresh insight, conviction, and hope through your time together.

Review:

We are moving into a series called “Relationships worth fighting for”. Last week, we looked at the challenge of faithfulness in singleness, and this week we move to that search for the “Right Person”!

The Grand Tour of the message: Thinking back on what you heard this Sunday…

o What did you learn about God?

o What did you learn about people?

o What did you learn about yourself?

o What do you want to commit to putting into practice?

Reflect:

Experience:

• What is the difference between living life “Looking for” the right person VS “Becoming” the right person? How would that switch affect us in the meantime (before we find the “someone”)?

• Read 1 Peter 3:3-4. Contrast the two pursuits of beauty: one of physical beauty, one of character. How would the character of our relationships, even our sense of identity, be affected with that choice over time?

• What are some reasons why God would not want a couple to live together BEFORE they get married (e.g. 1 Cor 7:9 where marriage is the context for sexual expression, or Matthew 5:27 where Jesus sets the bar at a lustful look!)? Why not just “try it out; see if this works, if we are compatible, if it works better economically…”?

• In choosing to prioritize faith/character, what are some things we are saying we are ready to give up in order to have a stable, God-honoring marriage? If it actually becomes an OR, not AND situation, how would you talk someone through that choice?

• Read 2 Cor 6:14: Why say that? Why not do the “missionary dating” thing— don’t they need Jesus too?

• Read Proverbs 31:10-31. Then Read Prov 5:3-23. Compare and contrast how life would work out depending on which you choose to pursue. [Note: This was written as a warning to a young man, but the principles apply to both sexes!]

Respond: 

Scott ended the message this week with the challenge to ‘become the right person”. Join in prayer together, recommitting your life to Him, to His Kingdom, and to letting His light shine out in your relationships!

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