Connect Guide: Week of 9-24-2023
September 24, 2023

Connect Groups play an important role in encouraging and exhorting us to listen to and obey Jesus in all of life. This week, be sure to leave enough time to talk in very practical ways about how your group not only listens for God’s voice in the Bible but also encourages and exhorts each other to obey that voice in daily life.

Welcome (15 minutes)

What is your favorite fruit?
What is one encouragement you received in the past month?

Word – Galatians 5:16-26 (40 minutes)

Read the passage aloud together.

  1. In other passages in Galatians, Paul warned the Galatians about being enslaved to legalism. What does he warn them about being enslaved to in this passage?
  2. If we are made alive by the Spirit, why do we still struggle with sin? How do you see that struggle in daily life?
  3. How are we led by the spirit? What does it mean in verse 18 that if you are under the spirit you are not under law?
  4. What stands out to you in the list in verse 19? How does this contrast with the list in verses 22-23?
  5. Which spiritual fruit is blossoming in your life? Which are still in the bud?

Worship (20 minutes)

Before you close your discussion with a time for worship and prayer, spend a few minutes discussing ways that the group could pray for the blossoming of the Spirit’s gifts and leading in your lives. Lift these up in prayer.

Witness (15 minutes)

What is one way that you could be receptive to the Spirit’s work and fruits this week?