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Love Lasts Part II – Collage Discussion

Now’s the time where we’re all going to explain why we choose to create our collages the way that we did. Go around the room, one by one, and take your time explaining your collages. Ask questions of each other and get to know each other through the art you each created. This can take the whole discussion time if it needs to—it’s that important to share how you really feel!

But after/if you do get done and there’s more time left, here are some more things to talk about as a group.

In the Gospel of John, John writes, “To all who received him (Jesus), to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to be children of God…” (John 1:12)

• How often do you think of yourself as a “child of God?” Frequently? Ever at all?
• How does thinking of yourself as a “child of God” influence the way you think about God? Does it change or help the way you understand what a relationship with God is supposed to look like?

Paul, who wrote a good portion of the bible himself, prayed for the believers he was writing to. He wrote, “I pray that the eyes of your heart may opened so that you may know the hope that you have been called to, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his people, and the incomparably great power to those who believe.” (Ephesians 1:18-19)

• Paul asks us to “open the eyes of our hearts.” What does that mean for us? Do you sometimes feel “blind” to what God is doing? When was the last time it was really hard for you to see God’s involvement in your life? Is that right now for you?
• Paul wanted us to “know the HOPE that we have been called to.” What do you have in your life right now that you are placing your hope in? What are you looking forward to right now in your life? Has God helped put those things in your life?
• What is an “inheritance”, and what inheritance do you get from God as a believer?
• Paul finishes up by saying that if we believe in God, we will know “the incomparably great power” that God has. Has God ever moved in a very powerful way in your life? If so, how? If not, what would you like to see Him do for you in your life right now?

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