Getting Started:

Q: In what ways throughout your life have you been a “non-conformist” - going against conventional wisdom, the popular trend, or the status quo?

• What did it cost you?

• What did you gain?

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Q: What “fruit of the spirit” do you most resist?

RE-READ: James 1:2-4 NLT

“Dear brothers and sisters, when troubles of any kind come your way, consider it an opportunity for great joy. For you know that when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow. So let it grow, for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be perfect and complete, needing nothing.”

• Why do we resist so much, especially when James tell us that trials are “joyful”?

  
  

• How does resistance work to strengthen our faith and make us “complete”?

  
  

• What kind of resistance is there to this kind of message that the Bible is a progression of understanding; that God is continually reworking our understanding?

  • What kind of resistance do you feel toward this message?

    
    

• How can conversation help us embrace our natural resistance?

  • How can it help others?

a little resistance is good for us

BEFORE YOU LEAVE

What can we do as an OG family to help each other endure resistance?

Both when we experience resistance to the things we want, and when we become resistant to God’s Spirit as it tries to change us.