I lead a Life Group/Community Group/Home Cell/Cell Group/ Splinter Cell/Jihadist Group for our church called “Inhabited.” The vision is “to invite God’s transforming power into our lives through various forms of personal worship” and the focus is on spiritual formation. Ultimately, the “various forms of personal worship” point towards how we approach our relationship with the Holy Spirit, thus much of it centers around our prayer life.
I’m going to start posting our notes. Of course, as a community group, much of our night is discussion driven, which is hard to capture by just copy-pasting our notes. I’ll interject some nuggets that sprinkled our discussion to at least sort of gives an idea of where we went (of course, nothing directly personal, just guide posts). This week was a discussion of relational honesty. The original idea has been working in me for a few weeks, but the current book I’m reading (Metamoprha / Kyl Strobel), provided much of the support and helped me round it out as a lesson. I’d love to continue the discussion here for anyone who wants to jump in, especially considering I may not always convey it correctly as i convert discussion based stuff to text.
Our journey will probably have to look much like the psalmists’, who often cried out to God with utmost honesty about their inability to find Him near. Our honesty will be the place where God teaches us humility, trust, and how to really be loved. I have found in my own life that the Spirit longs for me to come to Him as I honestly am, with what is really going on inside of me and how I actually see the world. When I do, he takes me and shows me how little I understand and how much he has to teach me. – Kyle Stobel, Metamorpha