BIG IDEA: The Gospel frees us to lovingly confront.
Small Group Question: What reasons do you not confront well or at all? (Take a couple of minutes to think about your responses and then share them with the group)
Adam tells his friend, Joe, that he is an alcoholic a) based on his continuous drinking. b) Marsha wakes her daughter, Angie, for school and talks to her about the state of her room. Tim explains to his girlfriend, Heather, that his route c) to church is actually faster than hers. ANSWER: ALL OF THEM
an act of confronting. 1. the state of being confronted. 2. a meeting of persons face to face. 3. an open conflict of opposing ideas, forces, etc. 4. a bringing together of ideas, themes, etc., for 5. comparison.
To draw people back into close, obedient, and loving communion with God. 2 Corinthians 5:18-20 “All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ, God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.”
Matthew 22:37-38 “And he said to him, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment.”
Matthew 22:39 “And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Luke 10:29 “But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, ‘And who is my neighbor?’” Leviticus 19:17 “You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but you shall reason frankly with your neighbor, lest you incur sin because of him.”
Hebrews 3:12-13 “Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called "today," that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.”
Philippians 2:1-5 “So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,”
Small Group Discussion: Share a time when someone did not confront you well. Then share a time when someone did confront you well. What were the differences between the two confrontations?
“What does this person need to see (about himself, God, others, life, truth, change) that he does not see and how can I help him see it?”
“What does God want the person to admit and confess?”
“To what new ways of living is God calling this person?”
“How should these new commitments be applied to daily living?”
Small Group Question: Which of the steps to confrontation do you most need to remember? Why is that step difficult for you?
BIG IDEA: The Gospel frees us to lovingly confront.
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