Crossroads Community Group Guide
This Week’s Reading: Proverbs 9:1-18
A. Welcome: Welcome everyone especially new persons and read out loud your group’s purpose.
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: Spend a few minutes singing a worship song. Here is one you may want to use 10,000 reasons (or pick your own on YouTube make sure it has the lyrics on the screen)
D. Announcements
1. Weekly Resources on Crossroads Facebook Page
Monday: Listening Room Resources for the week
Wednesday: Building Your Faith Video Series with Pastor Willie
2. Daily Devotional Video: The Encouraging Word with Pastor Willie
3. Announcements and Events: Crossroads Web Site
4. Watch the Sunday service here Sunday 11:45am
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: (a simple question to introduce the main theme - called an icebreaker): What is the biggest choice you have had to make in your life? why do you consider it the biggest?
G. Read Background Information: Proverbs is a book of wisdom. It contains statements about life that are true based upon experience. Chapter 9 discusses the two basic paths in life. It does this by representing wisdom as a woman and folly as a woman. This was a common device that writers at that time used. Wisdom and folly are not really women. As you study see what differences you note between the two.
H. Word: Read Proverbs 9:1-18 - break it down into smaller portions to read. Read it in portions aloud together several times. (Goal is that everyone understand the Bible story or verses by retelling them in their own words - keep at it until everyone knows the story or verses)
1. What key (important) words do you see in these verses?
2. Tell in your own words what happens in these verses.
3. What are the details?
4. What details can you add to what others in the group have said?
I. Discuss: the following general questions together (Goal is to use these general questions to guide a discussion - the leader should not speak more than 30% of the time - let the group discover what God is saying to them).
1. What new thing did you discover in the story or verses that you did not know before?
2. What did you learn about God (Father, Jesus or Holy Spirit) from the story?
3. What do you learn about people from the story?
4. What important lessons for us do you see in this story?
J. Commitment - Obedience - Application (This is the key - have everyone answer this question):
1. What in specific will you commit to apply in your life from this study?
K. Prayer Time:
1. Pray for an empty chair representing new people who you want to join your group. Name names of people specifically.
2. Pray for the needs of the members of the group. It is best to divide into 2 groups one of male and the other female.
L. For Next time: Ask each person the name of a person they will invite to the group for next week.