Let's start out with a video!

Someone pray for God to be with you and guide you through the meeting.

(About 3 mins)

Committed: We are committed to loving God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength and loving others like He loves us.

Confidential: We value and trust each other, so we share openly and honestly with each other and what is shared in the group stays in the group.

Changing: We are growing to be more like Jesus, obeying His commands and filled with His Spirit.

Christ-Centered: In Jesus, we find God’s presence to guide us, His grace to forgive us, and His power to change us.

AcCountable: We encourage each other, help each other and expect each other to love and live like Jesus.

Connected: We meet every week, pray for each other every day, and share our lives as we obey and follow Jesus together.

Capable: By His Holy Spirit, God gives us the love and power we need to obey and follow Jesus.

Commissioned: We are all commissioned by Jesus to make disciples, so we are all committed to starting new cgroups for others who are ready to follow Jesus.

Consistent: We consistently follow this guide because it is based on God’s word and it helps equip each member to lead cgroups and to make disciples.

(about 20 mins)

Someone pray for God to speak through His word. Then someone read the following passages about the gifts God has to give.

Review the verse. 

Mark 12:30-31

Can you love God with all of your heart, mind, and soul, and strength and NOT love people??? 

1 Corinthians 13

13 If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,but do not have love, I gain nothing.

Love, the Motivation of Our Lives (TPT)

13 If I were to speak with eloquence in earth’s many languages, and in the heavenly tongues of angels, yet I didn’t express myself with love, my words would be reduced to the hollow sound of nothing more than a clanging cymbal.

2 And if I were to have the gift of prophecy with a profound understanding of God’s hidden secrets, and if I possessed unending supernatural knowledge, and if I had the greatest gift of faith that could move mountains, but have never learned to love, then I am nothing.

3 And if I were to be so generous as to give away everything I owned to feed the poor, and to offer my body to be burned as a martyr, without the pure motive of love, I would gain nothing of value.

So what does love look like??? 4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

8 Love never fails.

Watch this weeks lesson from Sarah Wiesman on what it means to “Love The Lords Family”

1. How am I doing at loving others? 

2.  Hebrews 10:24-25 says   

24 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, 25 not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.  

How can we spur each other on to love others???

(about 5 mins)

Caring for unconnected friends (P.A.L.S.)

Take turns reading the simple steps for reaching out to unconnected friends (PALS).

• PRAY: We pray because we love them.
• ASK: We ask questions because we care.
• LISTEN: We listen to understand them.
• SHARE: We share what Jesus has done in our lives and what He can do in theirs.

Each member answer one or more of the following questions:

• Who would you like the group to join you in praying for this week?
• What question do you need to ask an unconnected friend to show that you care?
• How have you grown in your love for an unconnected friend as you have listened to them and the Holy Spirit this week?
• Who do you need to share the gospel or your testimony with this week?
• Is there an unconnected friend you need to invite to a community group?
• Do you need to start a new Cgroup for someone who is ready to follow Jesus?

(about 20 mins)

Let each person choose and answer one Confession Question and one Celebration Question. (Please be concise so everyone has time to share.)

Share your confessions

• What has been your greatest challenge or temptation recently?
• What intentional or unintentional sins do you need to confess?
• What doubts or questions do you have?
• Is there something you need to share even though you would rather not?

Share your celebrations

• What has God done that you want to praise and thank Him for?
• When did God give you victory over a temptation?
• When were you obedient to God, and how did it turn out?
• How have you seen God at work in your life?

(about 5 mins)

• Based on what God has shown me today, what am I going to start, stop or continue doing this week?

• committing to a Daily Bible Reading Plan (see Daily Readings in the Christ United app or christislove.org/daily-devotions)