Life Group Questions

1. What does mutual encouragement look like vs. solo endeavors?
   

2. Have you experienced a mutually encouraging friendship? Please explain.
   

3. What are spiritual gifts that mutually encourage?
   

4. Why is receiving encouragement just as important as giving encouragement?
   

5. What is the spiritual gift that Paul wants to give to the Roman churches?
   

6. How is our relationship with Jesus mutually encouraging?
   

7. Why do we need mutually encouraging friendships?
   

8. How can you encourage a friend in their faith? How can you use your spiritual gift?
   

⁹ Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. ¹⁰ For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up! 11 Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep warm alone? ¹² And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken. —Ecclesiastes 4:9-12, ESV

¹¹ For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you— ¹² that is, that we may be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith, both yours and mine. —Romans 1:11-12, ESV