Taking Responsibility For Your Life- Week 2

This month we're learning from an outstanding teaching series from Northpoint Church called Taking Responsibility For Your Life.

We're taking in this teaching via DVD and won't be recording it for our podcast like we usually do. However, if you miss a teaching, you can grab the audio or video online directly from Northpoint. Here's how:

Follow this link: http://www.northpoint.org/messages.

Scroll to the right through the message series icons until you come to "Taking Responsibility For Your Life" (about the 10th series).

Double click on that and you'll be shown the 4 diff messages and be given the option to either listen to the audio or watch them on video.

We will be creating and posting our 2nd Helpings Info as we usually do. You can find them as a pdf on our PODCAST SITE or as text below.

Scriptures From Sunday: Galatians 6:3-9

REFLECT/DISCUSS:

When have you seen someone step up and take responsibility for a mistake or failure? What happened afterward?

One of the things we’re prone to do instead of taking responsibility is to compare ourselves to others. Read Gal 6:3-5. Why does God discourage us from doing this? How can comparisons lead us to fooling or deceiving ourselves?

Do you agree or disagree w/ this statement? “As long as I compare myself to other people, I’ll make excuses. When I compare myself to myself, I’ll make progress.”

Gal. 6:5 urges us to “carry our own load”. What does that look like for you right now? What are you responsible for?

Another “out” for us when it comes to taking responsibility is to try and dodge the consequences of our irresponsibility. Is this really and fully possible? Why do you think Gal. 6:7 describes this as “mocking God”?

Were you ever able to “put one over” on your parents, teachers or bosses and get away with being irresponsible? Is it possible do the same thing w/God? Do you ever find yourself looking for a loophole or treating God like He’s not very bright?

Where have you experienced the principle of reaping and sowing in your life? Was it positive or negative?

What do you think of Andy’s assessment that we reap “later and greater”? Have you seen this play out before?

What are some parts of your life where you are sowing responsibly right now? Where might you be sowing irresponsibly?

Do you think life’s predictable principles (ex. gravity, buoyancy, sowing/reaping) are gifts from God? Why/Not?

Assignment: If there is an area of your life where you aren’t where you want to be:

1. Honestly assess- where have I sowed irresponsibly? What’s my piece of the pie? What’s my load to carry?

2. Identify and start doing the things you should have been doing all along.