PRE-MEETING PREPARATION

• Make sure you have access to the overview video and are able to play that for the group.
• Review the weekly Big Idea for your reference. These are intended to give you context for the week. You can choose to start with these and use them for discussion or bring them up as applicable during your Group practice time
• Read through the Group and Individual Practices ahead of time.

BIG IDEA: Giving teaches us to surrender and trust.

• When we give sacrificially, we are choosing to be dependent on God.
• True surrender releases us from carrying the weight of being in control.
• God wants us to trust him with our needs and remember that everything belongs to him

Connection Time - 20 Minutes

Sermon Review - 20 Minutes

(Guides are updated weekly on the Community webpage.)

Group Application - 40 Minutes

Group practice - do this together in Group‍

• WATCH the overview video together, then engage in discussion.‍
• REVIEW the Discussion Highlights for this week.‍
• ASK: Have you practiced giving as a consistent spiritual practice before? If so, how has it helped you grow closer to Jesus?
• DECIDE how your group can practice giving together this month. You could set a monetary goal for the group to raise and donate, or simply an event to give to or serve at together. The best opportunities are Definition's Vision Offering on Dec. 10 and the Giving Hope event on Dec. 16!
• REVIEW the memory verse and other resources for the month.

Individual practice - to do on your own throughout the week

• Take a step toward generosity this week. It could be helping a neighbor with something, paying for the person behind you in a drive-through, giving to the church for the first time—anything to practice giving!

Pray - 10 Minutes

PRE-MEETING PREPARATION

• Make sure you have access to the overview video and are able to play that for the group.
• Review the weekly Big Idea for your reference. These are intended to give you context for the week. You can choose to start with these and use them for discussion or bring them up as applicable during your Group practice time.
• Read through the Group and Individual Practices ahead of time.

BIG IDEA: Giving provides us with contentment and blessing.

• The Holy Spirit wants to produce contentment and integrity with whatever we have.
• We give because we are children of the God who created everything and owns it all.
• Everything you will ever need is already promised to you through Jesus.

Connection Time - 20 Minutes

Sermon Review - 20 Minutes

(Guides are updated weekly on the Community webpage.)

Group Application - 40 Minutes

Group practice - do this together in Group‍

• DISCUSS the previous week's individual practice. How did you practice generosity in the last week?
• WATCH the overview video together, then engage in discussion.
• REVIEW the Discussion Highlights for this week.‍
• ‍ASK: Do you find it easy or difficult to give sacrificially? What makes giving easier or more difficult for you?
• ASK: What has helped you find contentment in life?
• REVIEW the memory verse and other resources for the month.

Individual practice - to do on your own throughout the week

• Take some time to make two lists: the first, a list of some ways that you can see how God has blessed you already, and the second, a list of the things you may feel dissatisfied with. Spend a moment each day thanking God for what he has done, and asking him to give you contentment in place of each dissatisfaction.

Pray - 10 Minutes

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