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:Leader Guide
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Personal Reflection
and Prayer cont.
Here’s your chance as a leader to pastor those
in attendance. Use this time to share a word
of gospel-filled hope and encouragement.
Consider reading Joel 2:25–32 and reminding
your brothers and sisters that we stand in
a long line of people who have blown it. If
anyone wasted their potential, it was the
nation of Israel, and yet God promised that He
was able and willing to restore the years that
they’ve ruined because of their sin. In the same
fashion, we can find hope in the fact that God
has not abandoned us and continues to have a
role for us to play in His mission, even if we’ve
made a mess of it up to this point. Conclude
this time by asking the pairs to pray over one
another, asking God to renew the passion and
joy that should define those who are caught
up in God’s grand mission.
Part III: Deepening the Conversation
As you move into part three of the second
conversation, consider two options of how to
present the material that follows. First, you
could do what we’ve done up to this point and
allow each individual to read and reflect on
their reading from section 4 on their own. Or
you might consider teaching this material if
you notice that your group is struggling with
focus and would not do well with another
time for individual reading and reflection.
This second approach doesn’t have to take
the form of a sermon, but can simply hit the
main points of the content in chapter 4. If you
choose this route, you might encourage the
participants to read section 4 on their own in
the time between conversation 2 and 3.