Family/Group Study Notes for the Week of October 27, 2019

Series: Art of Neighboring

Title: The Fear Factor 

1. What was your big take away from this week’s reading and/or video? What stuck out to you? What did you like? What was difficult or confusing?
2. Read Luke 5:27-32. Are you uncomfortable about spending time with anyone on your block? Anyone you would feel strange being seen with? Why?
3. Discuss the impact that the 24 hour media cycle has on your world view. What are you afraid of that you have only seen on the news
4. What’s the worse case scenario if you engaged your neighbors? Does knowing them increase the likelihood of your worst case scenario?
5. Who do you think is scared of you? Why?
6. What do you think are the main reasons people are often afraid of their neighbors? Do you have any fears or concerns about the people in your neighborhood?

Moving Forward

1. Do the Block Map – Write the names of your neighbors by listing out the names of the adults and children of the 8 closest houses or apartment units next to you and pay attention to the blank spaces. Take a second and identify each of the neighbors and decide if they are a stranger, acquaintance, or relationship. Go around and share how many neighbors you know by name and if you have made any progress since the last meeting.

2. Identify one neighbor that you are going to pray for over the next week.

3. Share one small “next step” that you feel God is calling you to take in the next 7 days.

On Your Own

Journal about a time that you overcame a fear. What were the steps that you took in completing that process?

Message notes for October 27, 2019

Series:  Art of Neighboring

Title:  The Fear Factor

1. In order to take the Great Commandment seriously, we must be willing to Engage with those who God has placed around us.
2. What is your “beast,” your dog that you are afraid of?
3. We live in fear of messiness of relationships
4. 1 John 4:18-22
5. Real Christian hospitality that creates real Christian community expresses authentic Christianity in deep and abiding ways to a world that thinks we are hypocrites.
6. Luke 7:36-38
7. Luke 5:27-32
8. The gospel come with a house key.
9. We want our lives to change to overcome our loneliness to be able to live in real community
10. Start anywhere, but do start.