Day 1
List 3 times during the day when you can memorize Bible verses.
Before/after breakfast, commuting to work, lunch break, coffee break, before or after dinner, right before going to bed.
Psalm 119:9-11 "How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word. With my whole heart I seek you; let me not wander from your commandments. I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you."
How did God show His immense love toward us? How do you see His love at work in your life today?
John 3:16 "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life."
Fill in the blank. "It cost Him His life on the cross to provide you with this opportunity. It will cost you the ______________ as you realize that your Lord can do a better job with your life than you can."
It will cost you the right to control your life...
Proverbs 3:5-6 "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths."
Daily Bible reading, in prayer/listening room, and through His people.
Psalm 119:105 "Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path."
Psalm 5:2-3 "Give attention to the sound of my cry, my King and my God, for to you do I pray. O Lord, in the morning you hear my voice; in the morning I prepare a sacrifice for you and watch."
1 Thessalonians 2:13 "... when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers."
The book highlights that a cell group is a place for 2 main things. What are they?
A place for growth and a place for service.
Matthew 18:20 "For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them."
Repeat the memory verse for this week. According to the verse, what is the key to life?
1 John 5:11-12 "And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life."
"Jesus is the Son of God. Without him, there is no life. With him is the fullness of life, eternal life, abundant life." (page 5)
How do our best efforts look to God, according to His Word?
Isaiah 64:6 "We have all become like one who is unclean and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment..."
What does it mean that Jesus is our Lord and Savior?
Romans 14:8-9 "For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's. For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and the living."
2 Timothy 1:4 "For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control."
What is stripped of its power in the cell group?
The power of sin and pride
John 1:5 "The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it."
What is the importance and power of Scripture memorization?
"It equips you to repel the attacks and temptations of Satan." (page 4)
Ephesians 4:16-17 "In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one... and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God."
What is the definition of sin? How does this impact your relationship with God?
Sin is putting yourself on the throne of your life. Sin is also rebellion against God, an unrepentant heart.
Isaiah 59:2 "but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God..."
Colossians 1:21-22 "And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him..."
What ways have you tried to come to God in the past? What does it mean that Jesus is the only way to God?
What is the purpose of the Spirit of God, according to the Word of God?
John 16:13 "When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come."
Why is the cell group crucial to life in Christ?
"By becoming responsible and accountable to others in the body of Christ we participate with God in breaking the power of sin in our lives." (page 12-13)
Proverbs 17:17 "A friend loves at all times and a brother is born for adversity."
Proverbs 27:17 "Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another."