Lean In // 5 minutes
What do people worry about today when it comes to money?
Sample answers…
- Cost of sending kids to school
- Having enough for retirement
- Living “pay check to pay check”
- Never benign able to get of debt
- Never having enough
- Having more than the “next guy”
- Loosing it all – how to protect and invest it safely
Leader Note: Pay attention to the answers as your group may answer in the third person but it may actually be what they are worried about and it will come up again later in this discussion.
Look Down // 10 minutes
What does the passage say about generosity?
Leader Note: Remember to keep your group engaged with the passage. Encourage them to put it into their own words while not straying from the meaning of the passage. Ask them to point to the verse when they give their observations.
Sample answers may include…
- You will have enough
- There’s a connection between what you plant and harvest (give and receive)
- It’s a decision, a choice… a free non-forced choice
- When we choose to give it should be an all in choice, because we want to
- God loves when people give with joy
- God is in control of the return
- God promises to take of you, give you all you need
- God wants to give to you so that you will have more to give to others, not just keep it for yourself
- God want’s to enrich us in every way to bless others – not limited to just money
- When we give others get to experience the heart of God
- When we give God gets the glory
- Giving is a sign of an obedient follower
Look Out // 10 minutes
What happens when we live with financial fear and worry?
Sample answers may include…
- We hold on to what we have, less likely to give anything
- Our relationships take on stress, they suffer
- We make decisions based of desperation
- We feel less free to take risks in life
- We can see past our current troubles, no vision for the future
Look In // 20 minutes
Where do you worry about your finances?
How can this passage address your worries?
Leader note: Have your group choose one or two verses or truths from the passage that directly address their worries. Have them put into a sentence, I worry about ____________ but I choose to believe that _____________________. Have them claim the promises from this passage as a way to move from worry to trust.
For example…
I worry that I won’t have enough money for retirement but I choose to believe that God is able to bless me abundantly, and give me all I need
Live It Out // 5 minutes
What would change in your heart and relationships if you help onto the God’s promises about generosity?
Key Verse(s): And God is able to bless you abundantly, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work. – 2 Corinthians 9:8
Key Thought: God will meet our needs
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