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 just bring them up as applicable during your Group practice time.
• Read through the Group and Individual Practices ahead of time.

BIG IDEA: Vision helps us live with intentionality.

• Knowing why you are doing something keeps you anchored when what you are doing has to change.
• Vision challenges our natural complacency and helps us continue moving forward.
• A clear goal allows for simpler decisions.

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: Do you have an idea of what you want your life to look like one year from now? Five years from now?
• ASK: What motivates you to keep moving toward Jesus and living a healthy lifestyle?
• REVIEW the memory verse and other resources for the month.

Individual practice - to do on your own throughout the week

• Spend a day or two asking God to begin giving you fresh vision for your life. Then, write down some characteristics that you feel he wants to develop in your life over the next few years, so you can share them with your group at the next meeting.

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 just bring them up as applicable during your Group practice time.
• Read through the Group and Individual Practices ahead of time.

BIG IDEA: Vision helps us live with accountability.

• When God gives us vision, it will always require growth.
• Clarifying the vision of our lives with others allows them to challenge us in healthy ways.
• Vision can act as a mental or emotional filter for the things in life that are less important.

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

• SHARE the characteristics that each group member wrote down as part of the individual practice last week.
• WATCH the overview video together, then engage in discussion.‍
• REVIEW the Discussion Highlights for this week.‍
• ASK: How do you make decisions about what you spend your time and energy on?
• ASK: Do you have people in your life who intentionally challenge you to live your life well?
• REVIEW the memory verse and other resources for the month.

Individual practice - to do on your own throughout the week

• Take some time this week to identify some things you should stop doing, and at least one thing you can start doing, in order to move toward God's vision for your life.

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 just bring them up as applicable during your Group practice time.
• Read through the Group and Individual Practices ahead of time.

BIG IDEA: Vision helps us live dependent on God.

• We need God to give us direction and vision for our lives.
• God will not call us to something that we don't need him to do.
• When we live with intentionality and accountability, we learn to be dependent.

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

• SHARE the changes that each group member wants to make in order to move closer to God's vision for their lives.
• WATCH the overview video together, then engage in discussion.‍
• REVIEW the Discussion Highlights for this week.‍
• ASK: What are some of the ways you intentionally depend on God?
• ASK: How can you become more aware of the kind of person God wants you to be in this season of life, and the things he wants you doing?
• REVIEW the memory verse and other resources for the month.

Individual practice - to do on your own throughout the week

• Spend some time this week inviting God to speak to you about how he wants to work through you in each area of your life (such as your family, work, school, neighborhood, etc.). Write down anything specific that comes to mind, and then find a way to keep it somewhere you can reference regularly.

Pray - 10 Minutes

PRE-MEETING PREPARATION

• Decide in advance what you will do this week for the Group Practice. This can be anything that builds community and relationship. If your group missed a week, you can also use this week to make up for previous content.

Connection Time - 20 Minutes

Sermon Review - 20 Minutes

(Guides are updated weekly on the Community webpage.)

Group Time - 40 Minutes

• REVIEW the previous week’s individual practice.
• In addition to the usual connection time and sermon review, use this week’s meeting to foster community and deepen relationships.
• REVIEW the memory verse and other resources for the month.

Pray - 10 Minutes