Life Group Study for the week of September 16, 2018

Life Groups have 3 components which can be done in any order:

Application study – Sermon based application and reflection. Reading the passage and discussing how to implement it in life. Always have one extra chair in case someone new comes.

Prayer – Men with men, women with women. Always pray for the extra chair to be filled by someone new.

Fellowship – Getting to know one another.

This Week’s Study:

Malachi 1:6-11 We Value Worship

Read the passage as a group

What other verses were used in the message?

If you haven’t had your prayer time, have someone open the study in prayer.

Serendipity Bible for Groups questions:

1. What care do you take in giving gifts at Christmas time? To a best friend? A family member? A stranger?

2. Who is the target of the Lord’s probing questions in verses 6-8? What is wrong with their gift giving?

3. Why are these people just going through the motions? Don’t care anymore? Couldn’t afford any better? Didn’t think the Lord was that picky? Wanted to defy him openly? Tried to fool him covertly?

4. How do these verses affirm the smallness of the priests? The greatness of the Lord?

Additional questions from the message:

1. Discuss how someone can improve their private worship. Their public worship?

2. We often think only singing is worship. How is listening to the teaching of God’s word an act of worship? How are serving and giving financially acts of worship?

3. How does Romans 12:1 apply to worship?

4. How often do you think about the need to prepare for worship?

5. Discuss the main idea of the message and the 3 application points:

If God’s love is not mediocre, our worship should not be mediocre

a. Worship is all about honor, fear, and reverence

b. Worship always involves sacrifice

c. Worship involves separation and exaltation

6. How can you help one another to become better worshipers?

7. What will you do this week to become a more worshipful person in order to display God’s worth and lift high the name of Jesus?