Fullness :: The Water
Use the lead app to check in students and make sure any students not listed fill out a connect card digitally.
Do not move on until check-in has happened and any students not listed have filled out a connect card.
The very first thing you need to do is talk Baptism Sunday and make sure your students are aware. Ask them if anyone is interested in getting baptized or even just knowing more about it. And each bucket has a paper sheet they can fill out to make sure they get plugged in. Once they fill it out (remind them all caps no cursive) Drop it back into the bucket and we will grab the sheets after group.
Start off by just catching up with students and ask them about their break week.
Grant talked about how important nourishment is for good fruit and what can happen when you water your tree with the WRONG kind of Water.
QUESTIONS:
Did you figure out what kind of tree you are in the last two weeks?
Explain the three waters Grant talked about in your own words.
Of the three waters Grant showed us tonight which one do you usually nourish yourself with in daily life?
Why do you think that is?
What are some areas in your life where you are really embracing the sin you should be struggling with?
What are you embracing?
How would you describe the Holy Spirit?
How does he show up in your life? (Do you listen?)
SCRIPTURE: This is a list of all the scripture we talked about tonight.
John 4:7-14
7 A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” 8 (For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.) 9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) 10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” 11 The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? 12 Are you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.” 13 Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again.[a] The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”Galatians 5:19-21
”Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.“Galatians 5:22 - 23
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
CHALLENGE:
Grant left them with a challenge for the next two weeks: Spend 15 minutes away from your phone and distractions and just spend time with God everyday.
Spend some time as a group coming up with a solid plan on how your group will tackle this. Make sure you build some kind of concrete accountability (For example we will text each other every day, or we will break into pairs and check in with each other before bed or literally whatever. But something more concrete than “Yeah I will try to do that”
PRAY :)
We will know we have hit our target if:
-Students have an understanding of how important it is that we are nourished by the Holy Spirit. That is fills us up and gives us life over the water this world has to offer.
-Each student leaves with a plan of action for accomplishing Grants two week challenge, including some accountability.