U+ I = WE Week 1: You'll Actually Use This Stuff

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SCRIPTURES FROM SUNDAY:

Genesis 2:7-9, 15-18, Romans 13:8-10, John 15:9-17, 1 John; 4:7-13, 19-21

REFLECT/DISCUSS:

Given the choice, would you rather spend a day alone by yourself, or with other people? Why? Do relationships energize you? Drain you? Both? Explain.

How would you describe the current state of health of your relationships? Where did you learn how to get along with other people? What was taught to/modeled for you?

Read Genesis 2. Make a list of everything Adam had going for him. How much of this is stuff we still seek today? Do you agree w/God’s assessment that it was “not good”?

What does it say to you about the importance of human relationships that Adam lived face to face with God in paradise & still needed another person to share it with? What do other people do for us that God can’t/doesn’t?

Read Genesis 3 & 4. What effect does sin have on the way humans treat each other? How has your brokenness hampered your relationships?

What’s your reaction to the idea in Romans 13 that love is a debt we never stop paying- not just to God- but also to each other? Who do you “owe” some love to right now?

Imagine talking with someone who didn’t know much about Jesus and telling them that He gave us 1 specific command to build our lives and churches around. What might they conclude the commandment was by looking at how we live and what we do? Do you think they’d guess anything close to what Jesus said in John 15:9-17?

Read through 1 John 3 & 4 and note all the verses that connect our love for God with our love for each other. Does what you see surprise you? Why/Why Not? Based on what you read, how would you describe the link between our relationship with God and the way we relate to each other?

PRAY: Talk with God about your relationships- both those that are healthy and those that aren’t. Ask Him to teach you something in this study that will change them.