Getting Started:

Q: What are some reasons to go to church? (WRITE DOWN YOUR ANSWERS)

• What are some things churches emphasize other than attendance?

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Q: What does it mean to “Spiritually fit”?

• How do you exercise your Spiritual self?

RE-READ: Galatians 5:22-25 CEV

“God’s Spirit makes us loving, happy, peaceful, patient, kind, good, faithful, gentle, and self-controlled. There is no law against behaving in any of these ways. And because we belong to Christ Jesus, we have killed our selfish feelings and desires. God’s Spirit has given us life, and so we should follow the Spirit.”

• How are Paul’s 9 “fruit” similar or different from the list you made earlier about reason to go to church?

  • What does this tell us about what we value, as a church culture, and what God values?

    • Are they aligned?

• How can you use these “fruit” as a measuring stick for our lives and the church?

• Do you feel God (or Orchard Grove) is stretching you?

  • If yes, how?

  • If no, why not?

the faith journey should stretch you; stretching should produce some discomfort

BEFORE YOU LEAVE

There is a trajectory to faith growth: no one has “arrived,” nor will any of us fully get it in this life.

Knowing this, can you accept your current knowledge and understanding of God as simply a mile marker on the journey of faith that will continue as long as you live? God is not done with any of us, let’s keep on journeying together.