PRE-MEETING PREPARATION

• Make sure you have access to the weekly video and can play that for the group.
• Review the weekly Big Idea for your reference. This is intended to give you context for the week. You can choose whether or not to read this in the group as a summary/refresher after watching the video.
• Read through the Group and Individual Practices ahead of time.

BIG IDEA: Vision helps us live with intentionality.

• Having a vision and mission helps us stay focused on what’s important.
• Vision isn’t so much about what we’re accomplishing as it is about who we’re becoming.
• Your life matters, and God has given it to you for a reason.

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 video and Discussion Highlights for this week.
• ASK: Do you have an idea of what you hope your life will look like one year from now? Five years from now? Try to think more about character traits and lifestyle rather than specific circumstances.
• ASK: What motivates you to keep moving toward Jesus and living with healthy life rhythms?
• 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 a 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 weekly video and can play that for the group.
• Review the weekly Big Idea for your reference. This is intended to give you context for the week. You can choose whether or not to read this in the group as a summary/refresher after watching the video.
• Read through the Group and Individual Practices ahead of time.

BIG IDEA: Vision helps us live with accountability.

• The things that God calls us to will always require growth.
• Without accountability, we tend to avoid discomfort.
• You cannot become the person God has called you to be by yourself.

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. What characteristics did you feel prompted to add or change from last week’s discussion?
• WATCH the overview video together.‍
• REVIEW the video and Discussion Highlights for this week.
• ASK: How do you make decisions about what you spend your time and energy on?
• ASK: How can this group help you to continue maturing?
• 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 weekly video and can play that for the group.
• Review the weekly Big Idea for your reference. This is intended to give you context for the week. You can choose whether or not to read this in the group as a summary/refresher after watching the video.
• Read through the Group and Individual Practices ahead of time.

BIG IDEA: Vision helps us live dependent on God.

• God will not call you to be someone that you can become without him.
• The person God intends to form you into is far better than anything you could ever hope for or accomplish on your own.
• We can take a step today toward Jesus so that we will become like him over time.

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. Share the changes that each group member wants to make in order to move closer to God's vision for their lives.
• REVIEW the video Discussion Highlights for this week.
• ASK: What are some of the ways you intentionally practice dependence on God?
• ASK: What steps can you begin taking now that will hopefully result in reaching the vision God has given you for the future?
• 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

Week 4

PRE-MEETING PREPARATION

• This is a five-week month, so there is extra application for your group this week but no video.
• Read through the Group and Individual Practices ahead of time.

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. What did you sense God speaking to you about the different areas of your life?
• ASK: Do you feel involved in building God's kingdom right now, where you are and with the influence you currently carry? Why or why not?
• Spend time as a group writing a prayer for vision, mission, and purpose together. The goal is to come up with a shared prayer that you pray both individually and as a group, to help you move together into all that God is calling you to!
• REVIEW the memory verse and other resources for the month.

Pray - 10 Minutes

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Week 5

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

• 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