Saturday Nights at Mariners is the place to be! Come to the 5 pm service and stick around after for great food, awesome games with prizes and live entertainment. Summer Saturdays is a great way for you entire Life Group to connect and invite others in from your community! Click the image above to learn what’s happening each week.
Lean In // 5 minutes
What are nicknames you had growing up?
Look Down // 10 minutes
What do you learn about God in the passage? What about Gideon?
Sample answers may include…
- God response the cries of his people
- God has the power to rescue and save us from desperate situations
- God will remind us of how he has lead/saved us
- God calls us to worship him alone
- God is with us even when we turn our back on him
- God sees things in us that we don’t see in ourselves
- God gives us strength, he sends us
- Gideon, was hiding, afraid
- Gideon doubts God’s presence, sees the circumstance and feels abandoned
- Gideon focuses on his own lack of strength, makes excuses for what he can’t be a “Mighty Warrior”
Leader Note: Led your group to focus on verse 12 where God calls Gideon a “Mighty Warrior.” In that moment there’s no way Gideon could have believed that to be true. He was hiding in fear for us life and his response to the name that God gives me is meet with doubt and excuses. Even still God will use Gideon to do all that he promised. God designed Gideon to truly be a “Mighty Warrior.” That was his Gideon’s God-given dream and calling.
Look Out // 5 minutes
What are the names the world gives us? Where do we get those names?
Sample answers may include…
- Broken
- Worthless
- Less-lan
- Stupid
- Expendable
- Ugly
- Shameful
- Un-loveable
Commentary: The names the world, and the enemy tries to stamp on our hearts often come from comparison our experiences and failings. Names shape our identity and self worth.
Look In // 20 minutes
What name has God given you?
Leader Note: This may take time for your group to identify. Explain that the name God give us will be associate with a dream a hope and calling that we believe God has for us. To not live in the calling would leave us feeling frustrated, unfulfilled and hopeless. Challenge your group to write down what the believe that name is. It will likely take them a few different cuts to really identity that name. Encourage them to go with the one that invokes the most emotion, the name that in a sense stops them in their tracks.
What’s a lie the enemy would have you believe about your name?
Leader Note: Like Gideon, we all have reasons, excuses why we can’t live in our calling. These are lies that the enemy feeds us to cast doubt and to shape a “false reality” of our selves and our calling.
One you have the name and the lie associated with the name you will now use your group to pray over each person. Thank God for the calling and purpose placed on their life then replace the lie that the enemy has used with the truth of God’s word and how He sees them. Pray body, pray with passion and expectation for God to speak and empower each individual to truly embrace and live out all that God has for them!
Live It Out // 5 minutes
Who could you impact by living out your God-Given Name?
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Learn More About Flow Questions: Check out Kenton Beshore’s book Ask in the Irvine Campus Bookstore for more on the Flow Question model.