Here's some suggestions around leading your Simple Churches this weekend. Pray and ask the Holy Spirit press upon your heart which 2-3 questions reflect His heart for your Simple Church.

Pray

Read James 2:14-26

Share with one another how the Holy Spirit spoke to you through the Sunday's message.

Talk about the statement "Our Deeds or Actions reveal what we worship/reveal who or what we are trusting." Does that resonate? Can you share some examples of this from your own life? 

When you trusted Christ for the first time and experienced "saving faith", did you see the immediate fruit of mercy and compassion emerge in your life? Think about Louie Z's story. Can you talk about your own experience?

Think about the word "Potential". CS Lewis commented in his book The Weight of Glory, 'How God thinks of us is not only more important [than what we think of God], but infinitely more important.' How God thinks of us. Who we are in Him. Determines what we do. Our actions. Our behaviors. Our responses.

Did you relate to AB Simpson's "word" that "self-sins" have the power to keep us from embracing our full potential in Christ. If you resonate with this, feel free to take the time as a Simple Church to pour over my Blog listing these 31 self-sins. Well worth our reflection.

Here is the link for that Blog. http://www.intheriver.ca/blog/god-given-potential

How will you allow what God thinks of you to impact everything you say and everything you do, today, tomorrow and every tomorrow?

Pray