Bridge Groups Summer ‘25

Questions:

1. Are you finding consistency in your daily time with God?

2. What are you learning about God? And yourself?

3. What steps of faith are you taking in obedience to Christ?

4. Are there areas of your life that are hindering spiritual growth?

5. Where are you growing in the fruit of the Spirit?

6. Have you been faithful in your church attendance and participation?

7. How are you making your family a priority in your life?

8. What temptations are you facing?

9. Are you enjoying time with God in prayer?

10. Is there anything you need to surrender to God?

11. Have your words and attitude reflected Christ this week?

12. Have you had any lustful thoughts or temptations?

13. Have you viewed any sexually explicit material this week?

14. What Bible verses are you memorizing?

15. Are you honoring God with how you handle your finances?

16. Are you withholding forgiveness from someone?

17. How are you showing love and care for your family?

18. Where are you giving your time, talents, and treasure to serve the Lord?

19. Is there an area of your life in which you are fighting discouragement?

20. Who's salvation are you praying for? With whom are you sharing your

faith?

21. What blessings are you grateful for today?

22. Have you been honest in your answers?

Vision casting - We saw a ton of personal growth in our bridge groups this past semester by being real and willing to expose our short comings. If you are wanting to experience growth both personally, but also in deeper community, this can be a pathway for that, but you have to be honest. If you are not honest about where you are and how you are really doing, it is only going to hurt you.

We have spiritual inventories that we are going to give you all.

these are not something we are grading or going to take up, these are for you to honestly asses where you are in these areas of your life

once we are finished, if you are willing to share some, we would love to talk about these

We will start with a checkin, and if you want you can loop in your spiritual inventory

Week 1 Homework:

Hebrews 10:19–25 CSB

19 Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have boldness to enter the sanctuary through the blood of Jesus—20 he has inaugurated for us a new and living way through the curtain (that is, through his flesh)—21 and since we have a great high priest over the house of God, 22 let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed in pure water. 23 Let us hold on to the confession of our hope without wavering, since he who promised is faithful. 24 And let us consider one another in order to provoke love and good works, 25 not neglecting to gather together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging each other, and all the more as you see the day approaching.

Week 1 HW Breakdown:

The blood of Jesus gives us access to the pressence of God

because of the cleansing we have received from the blood of Jesus, let us hold on to the confession of our hope. Jesus has proved himself to be faithful

because of our relationship with Jesus, we should gather together to encourage each other, and challenge each other on our sin and service to provoke love and good works

Week 2:

check in (how was your quiet time this week what did you get from the homework passage?)

go through accountability questions

Week 2 HW:

Deuteronomy 8 CSB

1 “Carefully follow every command I am giving you today, so that you may live and increase, and may enter and take possession of the land the Lord swore to your ancestors. 2 Remember that the Lord your God led you on the entire journey these forty years in the wilderness, so that he might humble you and test you to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands. 3 He humbled you by letting you go hungry; then he gave you manna to eat, which you and your ancestors had not known, so that you might learn that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord. 4 Your clothing did not wear out, and your feet did not swell these forty years. 5 Keep in mind that the Lord your God has been disciplining you just as a man disciplines his son. 6 So keep the commands of the Lord your God by walking in his ways and fearing him. 7 For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land with streams, springs, and deep water sources, flowing in both valleys and hills; 8 a land of wheat, barley, vines, figs, and pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey; 9 a land where you will eat food without shortage, where you will lack nothing; a land whose rocks are iron and from whose hills you will mine copper. 10 When you eat and are full, you will bless the Lord your God for the good land he has given you. 11 “Be careful that you don’t forget the Lord your God by failing to keep his commands, ordinances, and statutes that I am giving you today. 12 When you eat and are full, and build beautiful houses to live in, 13 and your herds and flocks grow large, and your silver and gold multiply, and everything else you have increases, 14 be careful that your heart doesn’t become proud and you forget the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the place of slavery. 15 He led you through the great and terrible wilderness with its poisonous snakes and scorpions, a thirsty land where there was no water. He brought water out of the flint rock for you. 16 He fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your ancestors had not known, in order to humble and test you, so that in the end he might cause you to prosper. 17 You may say to yourself, ‘My power and my own ability have gained this wealth for me,’ 18 but remember that the Lord your God gives you the power to gain wealth, in order to confirm his covenant he swore to your ancestors, as it is today. 19 If you ever forget the Lord your God and follow other gods to serve them and bow in worship to them, I testify against you today that you will certainly perish. 20 Like the nations the Lord is about to destroy before you, you will perish if you do not obey the Lord your God.