Reality Check: Mirror
James 1:13-18
Connect:
Share how you have seen God in the Highs and Lows of your week.
Discuss how resolutions made last week in “growing more like Jesus” worked themselves out – what God did in and through you (Phil. 2:13) Celebrate and thank God for those together and pray with those who experienced some “Lows” this week, for God’s encouragement for them.
Prayer:
Pray that God would lead your discussion time and bring fresh insight, conviction, and hope through your time together.
Review:
We are launching into a new series on the book of James and how we can be challenged to examine the authenticity of our faith! We have looked at navigating trials and temptations, and this week was on turning what we hear from God’s Word into Action in daily life!
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:
Read James 1: 19-20
Share a time when you observed the ‘anger of man’ not producing the ‘righteousness of God’.
Read James 1:19-21
o Where does Anger lead? (Proverbs 15:1 &18, Proverbs 29:22, Titus 3:9-10)
o Is all anger sinful? What makes the difference? (Mark 3:1-6, 1 Corinthians 13:4-5, Ephesians 4: 26-27, Matthew 5:22-24)
o How can being quick to listen and slow to speak help us to control ungodly anger? (Matthew 12:34b-37, and 18:15, Psalm 141:3, Proverbs 4:23)
o How can being hearers only and not doers of God’s Word cause us to deceive ourselves? (1 Corinthians 8:1-2, Matthew 7:21-23, John 5:39-40)
Read James 1:22-25
o Why is God’s perfect law the law of liberty? (Romans 6:6-7, and 20-23, Galatians 5:1and 13-14)
o Talk about God’s provision— what are we trusting Him for? (Ezekiel 36:26-27, John 14:15-17, and 21 and 23, Psalm 119:32)
Read James 1:26-27
o Why is it required to keep a tight rein on our tongues, in order to please God? (Proverbs 18:21, Ephesians 4:29-32,2 Timothy 2:23-26)
o How do we ‘keep ourselves unstained by the world’? (Romans 12:2, 2 Corinthians 3:18, Psalm 101:3a, Proverbs 17:4)
Respond:
o Looking in the mirror can be a shock at first, but it takes us to a new place as we allow God’s Word to bear fruit in our lives! Pray that the Lord would use our lives to bring Hm glory!
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