Life Group Leader Guide

This guide is merely a tool for you as a leader to, with the direction of the Holy Spirit, build out a plan for your life group. Feel free to use all of it, parts of it, or none of it. Remember, Life Groups are small group communities meeting regularly to encounter God, make disciples, and live on mission.

Announcements:

Please communicate these announcements to your group and address any questions directly or by helping find an answer from staff, the app, or the website.

1.  No Announcements!

Tear The Veil

Always invite the Holy Spirit to lead your time together. Take a moment to quiet your hearts and ask Him to tear down any barriers, distractions, or preconceived ideas that may keep you from seeing and hearing Him clearly. Pray for open hearts and a willingness to respond to whatever He reveals.

Relate

Connect with one another.

  • Where do you feel closest to God? Is it in a particular place, activity, environment, or rhythm of your life? What is it about that setting that helps you connect with Him?

Receive

Take a few moments to quiet your hearts, invite the Holy Spirit to speak, and receive from God through prayer and Scripture.
Questions for prayerful reflection:
  1. What distractions, habits, or competing priorities might be keeping you from experiencing a deeper connection with Jesus?
  2. Where have you been drawing your sense of life, identity, or strength from sources other than Jesus? 

Read John 15:1–17.

Reflect

Invite the group to reflect and share what they and received from God.
If the group needs some stirring questions, feel free to use the following...
  • Dependence: Am I genuinely dependent on Jesus, or have I learned to live a Christian life that functions largely without Him?
  • Surrender: What might God be trying to prune from my life that I'm actually fighting to keep?
  • Fruitfulness: If I continue living exactly as I am today, what kind of fruit will my life produce five years from now?

Respond

Invite the group to take time to pray and consider what God may be inviting them to do in response to what they have heard. Encourage everyone to listen for the Holy Spirit’s guidance, identify a practical step they can take, and pray for one another in small groups as they respond to Jesus.