Life Group Discussion Questions
Crash Course in Being Willing
Ted Swinburne
October 11, 2026
This week kicks off our 2026-2027 Life Group Season! Our prayer is that your group will from acquaintances to family, that you all leave your group meetings encouraged and reminded that you get to walk with Jesus in community.
1. Leaders- take a moment to explain the flow of a life group meeting and discuss some ground rules (start and end on time, confidentiality, stay on topic, etc- work together to come up with your group’s ground rules). Cover any other housekeeping matters such as how the group will communicate with reminders or prayer requests.
2. What are you looking forward to about being a part of a life group this year?
3. How do you feel connected and known in a life group?
Read 1 Thessalonians 2:13-16.
4. What is the difference between receiving a message as a human word and as God's word? What would that look like in practice?
5. Do you tend to approach Scripture to be informed, to be affirmed, or to be changed? What shifts your posture?
6. Where do you see God's word "at work" in your life or in this group right now? How and when do you regularly expose yourself to God’s Word?
7. Has your faith ever cost you relationally or socially? How did you handle it, and how might this passage encourage you?
Pray for one another to “Be Willing…"
Crash Course in Being Willing
Ted Swinburne
October 11, 2026
This week kicks off our 2026-2027 Life Group Season! Our prayer is that your group will from acquaintances to family, that you all leave your group meetings encouraged and reminded that you get to walk with Jesus in community.
1. Leaders- take a moment to explain the flow of a life group meeting and discuss some ground rules (start and end on time, confidentiality, stay on topic, etc- work together to come up with your group’s ground rules). Cover any other housekeeping matters such as how the group will communicate with reminders or prayer requests.
2. What are you looking forward to about being a part of a life group this year?
3. How do you feel connected and known in a life group?
Read 1 Thessalonians 2:13-16.
4. What is the difference between receiving a message as a human word and as God's word? What would that look like in practice?
5. Do you tend to approach Scripture to be informed, to be affirmed, or to be changed? What shifts your posture?
6. Where do you see God's word "at work" in your life or in this group right now? How and when do you regularly expose yourself to God’s Word?
7. Has your faith ever cost you relationally or socially? How did you handle it, and how might this passage encourage you?
Pray for one another to “Be Willing…"