Worship Series - Study 2
Pray: Ask God to speak
Read Passage Aloud: Psalm 92 (perhaps ask two different people to read from two different translations)
Re-tell the passage in your own words.
General Questions
What do you like about the passage?
What do you find interesting and or challenging about the passage?
Read Passage Aloud: Psalm 92 (perhaps ask two different people to read from two different translations)
Re-tell the passage in your own words.
General Questions
What do you like about the passage?
What do you find interesting and or challenging about the passage?
Specific Questions
1. Have you ever established a daily practice such as what is mentioned in the Psalm - proclaiming your love in the morning and your faithfulness at night?
What is your daily practice? Has worship in song been part of your daily practice? Share what has worked for you in your daily rhythm of connecting with God?
2. John mentioned that we might begin the day with a clean white shirt but then as the day goes on the shirt gets dirty. What are the things that get your shirt dirty each day?
3. What do you sing for joy at? What works of God are you thankful for? Is there anything you can thank God for at the end of the day? In what ways do you show the priorities of thanksgiving and praise?
4. Worship is declaring who God is and all he has done. What are some other things you have done in order to worship?
5. This week we lay down the tool of worship in song as a community activity and pick up some other tools - a shovel, a spade, a mixer, a spatula - how will you utilise the different tools this week as you participate in engage?
6. What would it look like for you to still 'bear fruit in your old age'? What do you need to do now in order for that to happen?
7. Part of this Psalm shows that what we see is not the whole picture? Does that fact lead you to be thankful to God - because he sees the whole picture?
Have you ever tried the three practices that John suggested - if not, try one of them together.
•slow reflective reading of scripture
•daily review and reflection
•engaging regularly with praise
Please talk to your Life Group re what you will do as an Engage this week?
1. Have you ever established a daily practice such as what is mentioned in the Psalm - proclaiming your love in the morning and your faithfulness at night?
What is your daily practice? Has worship in song been part of your daily practice? Share what has worked for you in your daily rhythm of connecting with God?
2. John mentioned that we might begin the day with a clean white shirt but then as the day goes on the shirt gets dirty. What are the things that get your shirt dirty each day?
3. What do you sing for joy at? What works of God are you thankful for? Is there anything you can thank God for at the end of the day? In what ways do you show the priorities of thanksgiving and praise?
4. Worship is declaring who God is and all he has done. What are some other things you have done in order to worship?
5. This week we lay down the tool of worship in song as a community activity and pick up some other tools - a shovel, a spade, a mixer, a spatula - how will you utilise the different tools this week as you participate in engage?
6. What would it look like for you to still 'bear fruit in your old age'? What do you need to do now in order for that to happen?
7. Part of this Psalm shows that what we see is not the whole picture? Does that fact lead you to be thankful to God - because he sees the whole picture?
Have you ever tried the three practices that John suggested - if not, try one of them together.
•slow reflective reading of scripture
•daily review and reflection
•engaging regularly with praise
Please talk to your Life Group re what you will do as an Engage this week?
Worship Series - Study 1
Pray: Ask God to speak
Read Passage Aloud: Psalm 46 (perhaps ask two different people to read from two different translations)
Re-tell the passage in your own words.
General Questions
What do you like about the passage?
What do you find interesting and or challenging about the passage?
Read Passage Aloud: Psalm 46 (perhaps ask two different people to read from two different translations)
Re-tell the passage in your own words.
General Questions
What do you like about the passage?
What do you find interesting and or challenging about the passage?
Specific Questions
1. What tools have you utilised in the past to help you worship?
Has worship in song been the main tool you’ve used? What other tools could help you worship God?
2. Have you ever thought of God as your refuge and the one who could give you both strength and peace in the middle of the storm?
3. What storms are you going through right now? Ask people to share the things that they are wrestling with at this point in time and take some time to pray for them.
4. What would it mean for you to drop your arms and not fight and try to be still in the midst of the storm? Try being still even play the clip below as a scripture behind the stillness or the song below which is called still by Hillsong.
5. Ask people how they felt it was to be still? What was it like for them? Did they sense a difference in themselves? Did they hear anything as they were silent?
6. What difference does it make to know that he is God in the midst of the storm? How do you do that?
7. What would help them as they practice being still (a notepad to write things that come to mind). Reassure them it’s ok for your mind to be busy as you try to sit still. But encourage them to persist and be still at different times - ask what other things could they try to help them worship?
Please talk to your Life Group re what you will do as an Engage in the coming weeks
1. What tools have you utilised in the past to help you worship?
Has worship in song been the main tool you’ve used? What other tools could help you worship God?
2. Have you ever thought of God as your refuge and the one who could give you both strength and peace in the middle of the storm?
3. What storms are you going through right now? Ask people to share the things that they are wrestling with at this point in time and take some time to pray for them.
4. What would it mean for you to drop your arms and not fight and try to be still in the midst of the storm? Try being still even play the clip below as a scripture behind the stillness or the song below which is called still by Hillsong.
5. Ask people how they felt it was to be still? What was it like for them? Did they sense a difference in themselves? Did they hear anything as they were silent?
6. What difference does it make to know that he is God in the midst of the storm? How do you do that?
7. What would help them as they practice being still (a notepad to write things that come to mind). Reassure them it’s ok for your mind to be busy as you try to sit still. But encourage them to persist and be still at different times - ask what other things could they try to help them worship?
Please talk to your Life Group re what you will do as an Engage in the coming weeks