Resilience 8 - Purpose

Matthew 7:24-27

Matthew 22:36-40

Matthew 28:16-20

The Big Idea: If you don’t have a sense of purpose worth dying for, you will struggle to find anything worth living for.

How to Build on Solid Rock:

• Embrace that all authority in heaven and on earth is HIS

• Entrust my entire life to the Lordship of Jesus, as I currently understand it

• Be baptized into a living relationship with God

• Commit to obeying everything Jesus taught and commands

• Be a spiritual father or mother

Romans 1:1-2

Oikos: Extended Household

The greatest contribution you can ever make to God and the world is found in your own household.

Mark 2:1-12

A Simple and Strategic Lifestyle: Be a Blessing!

Believe for them in Prayer

Listen to them

Eat with them

Serve them

Share your story with them

Response:

• I will entrust my life to God and to Him alone

• I will build my life on the love of God

• I will bless my extended household 

Book recommendation: 

The Gospel Comes with a House Key: Practicing Radically Ordinary Hospitality in Our Post-Christian World - Rosaria Butterfield

DISCOVERY BIBLE STUDY

► This week's Passage: Colossians 1:3-8

► Connection questions:

1. What are you thankful for?

2. What is a challenge you are facing?

3. How did you do with last week’s “I will” statement?

► Have at least one member of the group restate the passage in their own words

► Individual answers to five questions:

1. What stands out to you?

2. What does this passage tell us about people?

3. What does this passage tell us about God?

4. Based on the passage, what is one thing I could do differently starting now and what would happen if I did? (each person commits to their action for one week using an “I will…” statement)

5. Who are you going to tell about what you discovered? (each person commits to having that conversation before the next meeting)