6.27.21 - RESET - Part 2: Living your Destiny

Service Video, Message Notes, & Community Group Guide

MESSAGE NOTES

RESET - Part 2: Living Your Destiny

Acts 9:1-19

Three Stages to walking in Your Destiny

Stage One: Awareness that You Have a Destiny from God

Stage Two: Realizing that Someone Else’s Destiny is Not Your Destiny

Stage Three: Understanding that Your Destiny is a Journey not a Destination

Stage One: Awareness that You Have a Destiny from God

Key Concept: Every man, woman and child is born with a God-given destiny (purpose)

Key Verse: Luke 7:30 But the Pharisees and the experts in the law rejected God’s purpose for themselves, because they had not been baptized by John.)

Community Group Application: Community Group members let God use them in lives of other people who are not walking in their destiny

Stage Two: Realizing that Someone Else’s Destiny is Not Your Destiny

Key Concept: Your circumstances, your past your abilities, your personality, your connections are uniquely you 

Key Verse: Psalm 139: 13-16 13 For you created my inmost being;
    you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
    your works are wonderful,
    I know that full well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you
    when I was made in the secret place,
    when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed body;
    all the days ordained for me were written in your book
    before one of them came to be.

Community Group Application: Community group members work as a team together using their unique situation to reach lost people.

Stage Three: Understanding that Your Destiny is a Journey not a Destination

Key Concept: Your circumstances, your past your abilities, your personality, your connections are uniquely you 

Key Verse: Psalm 139: 13-16

13 For you created my inmost being;
    you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
    your works are wonderful,
    I know that full well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you
    when I was made in the secret place,
    when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed body;
    all the days ordained for me were written in your book
    before one of them came to be.

Community Group Application: Community group members work as a team together using their unique situation to reach lost people.

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Crossroads Community Group Guide

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A. Welcome

B. Purpose: Our purpose is to spread the Kingdom of God. We do this by multiplying groups of people who care for each as God's family. We begin by inviting new people to our group and building them to be followers of Jesus. Each person here has the potential to be empowered to start and be the leader of a new group and spread God's kingdom.

C. Worship Time: One Thing remains

D. Announcements

• Weekly Resources on Crossroads Facebook Page

• Daily Devotional Video: The Encouraging Word with Pastor Willie

• Events: Crossroads Website

E. Review

1. How did you do with what you wanted to apply from last week?

2. Who did you invite to the group for this week?

F. Opening Question: What gifts has God given to you?

G. Background Information

The book of Acts is a true story of how the good news of Jesus spread all over the world. A central part of that history is how God calls people to live out their God-given purpose. The Apostle Paul - known here as Saul - had his life turned around by an encounter with God. From studying this incident with Paul we can see how God calls us and how God works in people. God's purpose is always and will ever be to reach lost people with the good news of Jesus. His method is always the same: to call people like Paul - like you - like me - to use us as His instruments to reach others in our circle.

H. Word: Acts 9:1-19

1. What key words do you see in these verses?

2. Tell in your own words what happens in these verses.

3. What are the details?

I. Discuss the following general questions together.

1. What catches your attention in these verses?

2. What new thing did you discover in the story or verses that you did not know before?

3. What did you learn about God (Father, Jesus, or Holy Spirit) from the story?

4. What do you learn about people from the story?

5. What important lessons for us do you see in this story?

J. Commitment - Obedience - Application: What specifically will you commit to apply in your life from this study?

K. Prayer Time:

1. Pray for new people by name who you want to join your group.

2. Pray for your group to multiply.

3. Pray for the needs of the members of the group. Divide into 2 groups, for male and female.

L. For Next time: Ask each person the name of a person they will invite to the group for next week.