Week 14:

Acts 8:26-40

For the first 30 minutes, please enjoy a meal together as a group. This is an intentional time set aside for fellowship. Eating together is a family activity, and helps us become like a spiritual family. This is one simple way we practice doing what Jesus did.

Ask: “Were you able to begin implementing a rhythm of solitude? Were you able to teach solitude to your ‘one’?”

• If people say they weren’t able to, stop and ask how can you help them be faithful in what they’ve learned?”

2/3rd

• Pray for God to teach the group through His Word and Holy Spirit.

• Have someone read Acts 8:26-40 out loud.

  • Ask: “What does the passage teach us about God?” (Have everyone share)

  • Ask: “What does the passage teach us about people?”(Have each person share)

• Have someone else read the passage again out loud, maybe in a different translation.

  • Ask: “What commands are we to obey, examples to follow, and truths to hold onto from the passage?” (Have everyone share)

  • Ask: “What personally challenges you from this passage?” (Have everyone share)

  *For mixed groups, please separate the men and women for the 3/3rd

3/3rd

• Focus on our Goal:

  • Remind the group that as apprentices of Jesus, we want to strive to be with Jesus, become like Jesus, and do what Jesus did and taught.

• With that in mind, have everyone pray silently for 5 minutes and ask the Holy Spirit to tell them:

  • How to specifically obey the passage. (Obedience must be tied to the passage)

  • Who they should teach what they learned from God out of this passage.

• After the 5 minutes, have everyone share what the Holy Spirit told them.

• Split everybody up into pairs/trios:

  • Practice teaching the person what you learned from God out of this passage.

  • Pray for each others’ faithfulness to what the Holy Spirit told them.

• Bring the whole group together and ask someone to pray to end the group’s time.