Successful Life - Discussion 4

Biblical Management, Focus, and Commitment
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How to Manage Your Peers

Pray

Pray together for the group meeting, and any pressing needs within the group.

Review

Each week you’ll spend some time reviewing the previous week’s lesson. Did anything happen last week that brought the lesson to mind, and what did you learn from it?

Watch

Watch the following discussion-starter video. It’ll set the topic of discussion for the group.

1 Timothy 5:1
Galatians 6:1-5
Romans 12:14-21

 One person will first read the scripture selection in the King James Version. Next, another person will read the same passages in a modern language or amplified version for more clarity such as the New Living Translation (NLT), Message Bible (MSG), New English Translation (NET), Amplified Bible (AMP), etc. We recommend using the YouVersion Bible app.

Retell

  1. One person will begin retelling the scripture passage in their own words (a new person to start each week is great!) Then…
  2. As a group, work together to fill in gaps and build the story. This will help us internalize and own it. Be sure everyone participates.

Discuss

Together, share around the group how the topic and scripture setting applies to your life personally. Here are some thoughts to consider for discussion… don’t let the discussion stop here, though… what questions can you ask that will help uncover God’s message?

Scripture : 

1 Timothy 5:1 Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren; 2 The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.

How would you approach a sibling?( or someone who is on equal footing with you that you know well)?

  1. What is the difference between rebuke and intreaty?
  2. This verse does not instruct us to treat anyone like they are beneath us. Why is that?

Romans 12:14 Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not. 15 Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep. 16 Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits. 17 Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men. 18 If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men. 19 Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. 20 Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. 21 Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.

  1. How many actions are advised in these verses? What are they?
  2. How many actions are we commanded NOT to do? What are they?
  3. Should we limit the application of these verses to people we like?
  4. What do you think it means to not be wise in your own conceits?
  5. Verse 20 starts with “therefore”: what does this word mean for the words that come before and the ones that come after?
  6. Does someone have to deserve blessings or food, or drink for us to bless them or feed them or give them to drink?
  7. Is it easy for you to be a blessing to someone who is hurting you?
  8. How can we find the mindset and strength to fulfill these verses?

Galatians 6:1 Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. 2 Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. 3 For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. 4 But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another. 5 For every man shall bear his own burden.

How can we bear each others burdens and yet be responsible to bear our own burden?

  1. What are we to do when a person is overtaken in a fault? How are we to do it?
  2. What law is fulfilled when we bear each others burdens?
  3. We are to bear others burdens but what are we to do with our own work?
  4. Should I look for opportunities to bear another burden? What spiritual state should I be in to help someone else?
  5. Should I assume that someone else is going to bear my burden – or should I plan on carrying my own burden?
  6. These scriptures are consistent: How would you reconcile verse 2 and verse 5? (Hint: verse one gives temporary conditions, verse 5 is the end.)

Next Week:  The Successful Life – Managing Your Team

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