StoneBridge Community Church
Associate Pastor Jonathan Lusche
Summer Light
We understand that people may be traveling and that families may be squeezing in one last getaway before school starts. Summer Light is a 5 week, message series that will carry the StoneBridge community through the dog days of summer. The series is not consecutive, allowing for you to attend when you can and not feel like you've missed out!
Proverbs 26:13-14 NIV
“It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory, and Other Addresses
Exodus 32:1-5 NIV
Exodus 20:2-5 NIV
Galatians 4:8-9 NIV
John 15:1-8 NIV
Galatians 5:22-23 NIV
GROWTH GROUP / PERSONAL REFLECTION QUESTIONS
1. In what types of things do you take comfort in? Put another way, when you're stressed, what are some ways you to try to escape?
2. Among your comforts and means of escape, are there some that are healthy and God honoring?
3. Have you ever considered that some of your comforts and means of escape might be idolatrous? If idolatrous, how so? How might one distinguish between healthy/God honoring comforts and idolatrous ones?
4. In reference to the C.S. Lewis quote provided above, why do we all too often settle for less, ("mud pies" versus a "holiday by the sea")? How might we change this?
5. How might having a self-awareness, in regard to the fruit of the Spirit, help you progress in fulfilling God's purpose for your life and/or be a more faithful servant?
NEXT STEPS
- In an exercise of self-awareness, I will identify those things that I rely on for comfort that are not of God.
- In an exercise of self-awareness, I will take the Fruit of the Spirit inventory provided above and prayerfully consider the results.
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