
Mindful - Next Steps
Message Summary
Do you control your thoughts or do your thoughts control you? This is a difficult question for many of us to reflect on. It’s answer is can often point us toward reasons for various struggles in our life. So how do we learn to take control of our thought life? How can we be mindful of the influences that we are allowing in our lives? This week, we examined why it important for us to be mindful of the influencers in our lives as we seek to follow Christ.
• In general, what types of things people tend to think about (some may say obsess over) on a daily basis?
• In general, when we think about these things, is it helpful or harmful? Why do you say that?
• Why is it important for us to be mindful of the various influences throughout our day?
• What are the things that consume your thoughts throughout the day? How do they influence your emotions and your actions?
Read Romans 12:2
1) What does this passage warn against?
2) Why can this be dangerous to us as Christians?
3) What does this passage call us to do with our minds?
4) What does that look like for us today?
5) What is the benefit of doing so?
Read 2 Corinthians 10:3-5
6) What tools have we been given to combat for our thought life?
7) How are we to treat our thoughts?
8) What does it look like for us to take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ?
9) Why do you think this is so important?
10) What prevents us from doing so?
Read Colossians 3:1-4
11) Where should we focus our hearts?
12) Why is this so important?
13) How does this help us keep our minds intentionally focused on Christ?
14) What do we have to look forward to?
15) How does that help us focus on Christ today?
Moving Forward
Spend some time reviewing these verses and how they help us understand our responsibility to help those in need.
Psalm 19:14
Psalm 26:2-3
Psalm 139:23-24
Proverbs 4:20-27
Proverbs 12:8
Romans 8:5-13
Romans 15:5-6
1 Corinthians 2:6-16
1 Corinthians 10:31-11:1