life Transformation Group part 3

Life transformation groups was a boring blog series, I've scrapped it. Not doing the group just writing about it.

Hope you like the photo of me with my serrano?

Here are all the questions we ask each other every week to keep us focussed and growing as disciples:

Love God (live a life worthy of your calling)

1.Am I receiving God’s love for me and growing stronger in my relationship and obedience to Him? Am I daily seeking and listening to Jesus, intentionally spending time with Him, and involving Him in every aspect of my life?

(Different ways on different days)

Love One Another

2. Have I loved, served and preferred others above myself, specifically those closest to me? How can I grow in this? Have I withheld forgiveness, remained frustrated or damaged another person with my words?

Love The World

3. Am I taking opportunities to share Jesus and reproducing my life in others through making disciples? Am I praying for and remembering the sick, hurting and needy? Am I informed about global issues and seeking to advance God’s Kingdom in the nations of the earth.

Integrity Questions:

4. Strongholds and Patterns: Am I pursuing freedom from destructive patterns, strongholds and hopeless areas in my life? Explain.

5. Sexuality: Am I honoring God with my sexuality? Have I lusted after anyone and not valued God’s image in them? Have I exposed myself to sexually alluring material or allowed my mind to dwell on inappropriate thoughts?

6. Money: Am I being a faithful and generous steward of my (God’s) money and possessions? Am I worrying about or being controlled by a love for money or materialism, instead of trusting God?

Bible Reading and Prayer Questions:

7. Did I do my Bible Reading this week? (30 Chapters)

8. Did I have a daily personal rhythm of prayer this week?

9. Did I faithfully and regularly pray by Name for at least 3 people who are not yet in a relationship with Jesus?

Life Transformation Group part 2

As a disciple of Jesus I must love my neighbour, loving one another has to be at the core of who I am

Jesus said:

"My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you."

Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. (John 15:12-13)

For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. (Matt. 6:14)

Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building other up according to their needs. (Eph 4:29)

So here's the question we ask with regards to loving one another:

Have I loved, served and preferred others above myself, specifically those closest to me? How can I grow in this? Have I withheld forgiveness, remained frustrated or damaged another person with my words?

It's a challenge but once again something we need to get into our bones. Remaining frustrated, with holding forgiveness or damaging others with our words can happen so easily. We need to stay on top of our game with this one.

Loving, serving and preferring challenges self!!

I to be better at loving others.

Life Transformation Group part 1

There are 9 question sections to a life transformation group, bascially this should take you about an hour to an hour and a half every week. You should get with 2 other people and it can be done anywhere and the group does not need a leader or monitoring from some outside source. You just need a very basic commitment to honesty and living in the light. The idea isn't that you listen then provide answers and solutions but that you listen and allow each other to find their way.

This is about living a life worthy of your calling, basically "If I believe what the bible says I need to get busy in making it a reality in my life".

The first part of any life Transformation group is this.

"Love God"

This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. We love because he first loved us. (1 Jn. 4:10; 16;19) Come to me; hear me, that your soul may live. Your face, Lord, I will seek. (Is 55:3; Ps 27:8)

If we truly our His disciples we should be constantly growing in our understanding of His love for us and maturing in our love for Him.

So to ensure that we do this and are progressing in this the first set of questions we ask are these:

1.Am I receiving God’s love for me and growing stronger in my relationship and obedience to Him? Am I daily seeking and listening to Jesus, intentionally spending time with Him, and involving Him in every aspect of my life?

It's a big question, and you will find there are different ways on different days in which you receive His love. Once you get the question into your bones you will start to think about how you receive God's love, you will be challenged to get alone with God on a regular basis, to pray and ask God to be in every part of your day.

At first it can all feel a little contrived and wooden but my encouragement to you would be to keep going with it.

If you need any clarity feel free to ask.