Young Adult Community Group Resources
Community groups meet weekly to share life, pray, and study the Bible together. This fall 2020 we need each other more than ever so we are inviting you to find your spiritual home within a Community Group. Each week we are creating some resources to help you follow the fall sermon series “Invitation to Intimacy”. We are inviting you to…
Listen to the sermon if you missed it
Meet to dive deeper into the passage with some questions we’ve prepared
Learn the spiritual practice that springs from this passage and use it to keep each other accountable all week long to grow closer to the Lord
May the Lord bless your time in personal devotion as well as in community fellowship.
John 12 - 17 : Invitation into Intimacy with God (Fall 2020)
Sept 27 The Great Conundrum (John 12 : 37 - 50) - Andy Perrett
Highlight: Deciding if we are going to follow Jesus our guiding light.
Spiritual Practice : Examen
Oct 4 The Leader who Serves (John 13 : 1 - 17) - Susan Reddy
Highlight: What does love (Agape) require?
Spiritual Practice: Service. Humility. Sacrificial Love. "Agape" somebody.
Oct 11 Betrayal and Denial (John 13 : 18 - 38) - Andy Perrett
Highlight: Jesus knows us and loves us despite our tendencies - like Peter - to have short-sighted vision of God’s kingdom and over confidence in following Jesus “to my death.”
Spiritual Practice: Confession. Confronting and revealing of our true selves - before God, others, and ourselves
Oct 18 The Troubles of The Heart (John 14 : 1 - 14) - Paul Williams
Highlight: Have we experienced trusting God, revealed in Christ, as our source of life?
Spiritual Practice: Centering Prayer
Oct 25 When the Spirit comes (John 14 : 15 - 31) - Mike Bennett
Highlight: Repentance and recommitment to obey God’s commandments by following Christ’s example through walking with the Spirit.
Spiritual Practice: Inviting the work of the Holy Spirit into our lives; living in awareness and cooperation with the Spirit
Nov 1 Abide With Me (John 15 : 1 - 17) - Paul Williams
Highlight: Jesus’ command to Abide in him means “to make your home in me as I make my home in you”.
Spiritual Practice: Commit to a daily practice of meeting with the Lord.
Nov 8 Don’t let trouble surprise you. (John 15 : 18 - 16 : 4) - Octavio Fernandez
Highlight: Living grafted into Jesus’ true vine comes with Loving each other sacrificially, a move which will cause us to live out of step with the world, even receiving their hate and rejection.
Spiritual Practice: Lament - to take my complaints, anger, sufferings, frustrations and heartaches to God.
Nov 15 Preparing for Departure (John 16 : 5 - 33) - Bill Hogg
Highlight: Jesus is telling his followers that he’ll guide and speak to them through the Holy Spirit, giving them deep peace in a troubled world.
Spiritual Practice: Scripture Meditation
Nov 22 The importance of prayer (John 17 : 1 - 26) - Andy Perrett
Highlight:
Spiritual Practice: