Vision Sunday: Next Steps for Live Oak and for You At Live Oak Community Church, we say that “everyone has a next step”. Live Oak Community Church has next steps too. On Vision Sunday we cast vision for where we are going, look at the next steps we believe God has for us, and talked about our plan to get there, as well as challenged each of us to think about our next steps in that vision.
LIVE OAK CONNECTION POINT:
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DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
What was a highlight for you from the past week?
What is your “Live Oak story”? How did you end up at Live Oak and how have you been involved at Live Oak?
What is your observation about Live Oak’s identity as a church? Who is Live Oak?
- READ: Mark 2:1-12
- Spend some time SOAPing this passage. You can either spend time SOAPing individually and documenting for a several minutes and then spend time sharing with each -OR- SOAP in real time with each other. Either way make as many observations as you can. OBSERVATIONS: What are the things that stand out to you about this passage?What does passage this tell you about who God is?What does this passage tell you about who you are?
- How does that passage inform Live Oak as we seek to live out our mission as a church?
- Doug talked about some of the barriers for us in moving our mission forward. He challenged us to GROW and GO. What is your role in addressing each of these barriers?
Grow Our FACILITY Capacity = making room for more
Grow Our CONNECTING Capacity = connecting ourselves & others to Christ and Community
Grow Our SERVING Capacity = mobilizing more people to serve in the mission
Grow Our LEADING Capacity = growing our leadership and growing more leaders
Grow Our DISCIPLING Capacity = making disciples who make disciples
Grow Our SENDING Capacity = being a sending church
- At Live Oak, we have a strategy called “The 4 Great Connections”. Read each passage and briefly talk about what they mean for you.
- READ: Matthew 22:37-40. Matthew 28:18-20. Acts 2:42-47. Ephesians 4:11-12.
- In what ways are you currently connecting YOURSELF to God? To God’s Word? To God’s People? To God’s Mission?
- In what new ways do you need to be connecting YOURSELF to God? To God’s Word? To God’s People? To God’s Mission?
- In what ways could you connect OTHERS to God? To God’s Word? To God’s People? To God’s Mission?
- Doug challenged us this way: “Together, by faith, we will find a way to make more and stronger followers of Jesus.” What are your next steps to grab your corner of the mat?
- What else stood out from this week’s sermon?
- What is your big takeaway from this week’s sermon?
NEXT STEPS:
Everyone has a next step to apply what we have learned. What is your next step?Be specific.
MEMORY VERSE: *Challenge yourself or your group to commit this verse to memory:
Matthew 28:18-20 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
PRAYER:
Spend some time praying for each other. And pray this prayer as a group: “Jesus, build your Church and show ME my part and show US our path forward as a Church. Amen.”
***Challenge your group to make this a daily prayer:“Jesus, build your Church and show ME my part and show US our path forward as a Church. Amen.”
Scripture References:
Mark 2:1-12; Matthew 16:18; Matthew 22:37-40; Matthew 28:18-20; Acts 1:8; Acts 2:42-47; Ephesians 4:11-12