4. LOVE
Eat & Connect
Connection Activation (20 mins)
What is your favourite childhood memory?
Worship
Testimonies (10 mins)
Spend some time remembering how you have seen God move this week. This is a great way to worship Him as we acknowledge his greatness and power at work in our lives and communities.
Worship Activation (20 mins)
Jesus is the name above all names. How many names of Jesus can you name as a group? Read Isaiah 9:6 to get you started.
Spend some time lifting up His name together, honouring who He is and inviting Holy Spirit to come and show you more!
Worship song suggestions:
Bible
Bible Study (30 mins)
Read John 14:15-21.
How can we demonstrate our love for Jesus?
"God's love language is obedience."
How can we demonstrate our love for one another and build a culture of love in our small groups?
What does Jesus promise for those who love Him and keep His commandments? (John 14:21)
In John 14:16-17, Jesus promises to send a Helper to His followers. How does the Holy Spirit help us to love God and others?
In John 14:18, Jesus tells His disciples that He will not leave them as orphans.
What does this statement reveal about Jesus' love for His followers?
According to John 14:20, how is it possible for us to love Jesus even though we have not physically seen Him?
In John 14:15-21, how does Jesus' teaching on love challenge and inspire us in our daily lives and as we seek to Follow Jesus, Build Community and Love Newcastle?
What practical steps can we take to grow in our love for God and others, based on John 14:15-21?
Prayer
Response (10 mins)
Invite the Holy Spirit to fill you again with a fresh infilling. How would our week look different if we had an increased awareness of how much God the Father loves us and how powerful the Holy Spirit is in us?
Prayer (20 mins)
Use the prayer in Ephesians 3:14-21 to pray for one another:
For this reason I kneel before the Father, 15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name. 16 I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
20 Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, 21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.