Your Turn: Living A God-Honoring Life in Difficult Times
Too many Christians live carelessly and selfishly, lacking urgency about sharing God’s grace with others. This Volunteer Sunday, Reverend Mike Cariño urges us to pursue five aspects of faithful living, because how we live and serve impacts how people respond to the God we love and honor. Let us embrace this call to live purposefully and serve gladly.
Read Today’s Scripture Passage
1 Peter 4:7–11
Life Group Discussion Guide
1. Start with a prayer
2. Engage one another (15-30 mins)
- If you knew you only had one year left, what would change in how you spend your time and energy? Why?
3. Engage the mind (15-20 mins)
- Read the passage. How does Peter describe “deep” or “earnest” love (v.8)? What does it mean that love “covers a multitude of sins”?
- How does Peter define faithful stewardship and the proper goal of all service?
4. Engage the heart (15-20 mins)
- Who is currently stretching your capacity to love deeply? What makes loving that person/group difficult for you?
- When it comes to hospitality and serving others, what attitudes most often surface in your heart (e.g., joy, reluctance, fear, or grumbling)?
5. Engage the hands (15-20 mins)
- How disciplined is your mind during difficult seasons? Do your thoughts lead you toward prayer or toward anxiety and distraction? Identify one practical step you can take this week to cultivate a more disciplined mind through prayer and clear thinking.
- How can what God has given you (gift, skill, resource, or opportunity) bless someone else this week?
6. Engage with God in prayer (20-30 mins)
- Praise the Heavenly Father for being the source of our strength, clarity, and purpose in uncertain times. Thank Him that He loved us deeply through Christ and welcomed us joyfully into His family. Glorify Him for entrusting us with gifts and opportunities to serve, and for supplying the grace we need so that our lives may reflect His goodness.
- Ask for forgiveness from the Lord for allowing undisciplined thinking to weaken your prayer life and distract you from what truly matters. Repent for shallow love, a guarded heart, and moments when you choose grumbling over glad obedience. Confess the times you’ve neglected the gifts He has entrusted to you, or when you served through your own strength rather than relying on His. Pray that your life would be recentered on His glory, so that in all you think, love, and do, He is honored through Jesus Christ.
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