Service Video, Message Notes, & Community Group Guide

MESSAGE NOTES

Foundations of Spiritually Strong Children
3 Foundations for Healthy Self-Esteem  - Genesis 1:26

Foundation One: Knowing the Source of Healthy Self-Esteem 

• Key Concept: Your value and your sense of self-worth comes because you are God’s child.

• Key Verse: Psalm 139:13-14 - For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

• Community Group Application: Community group members realize that everyone was created in the image of God and seek to reunite others with their Father God through Jesus.

Foundation Two: Using Tools to Build Healthy Self-Esteem -Psalm 139:1-18

• Key Concept: Speak words of life to yourself, your children and those around you. Do not speak words of death.

• Key Verse: Proverbs 18:21 - The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit.

• Community Group Application: Community group members are deliberate in how they use their words to build others up.

Foundation Three: Finding Healing for Satanically Damaged Self-Esteem -Ephesians 2:8-10

• Key Concept: Walking in your God-given purpose is key to healing a damaged self-esteem.

• Key Verse: Ephesian 2:8-10 - For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

• Community Group Application: Community group members not only focus on personal healing and growth but on reaching out to others, so they don’t get stuck.

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: This is a Move

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 positive words have people spoken to you in your life that impacted you?

G. Background Information

Genesis 1:26 tells us that we are made in God's image. We are not descended from animals but we are special since we are God's children.

Psalm 139:1-18 tells us that life begins at conception in the womb. It is God himself who created each of us no matter what our parents were like.

Ephesians 2:8-10 emphasizes that we were created by God for a purpose.

H. Word: Genesis 1:26, Psalm 139:1-18, Ephesians 2:8-10

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.