Big difficulties can inspire God-sized goals.
Nehemiah 1:1-2:5; Mark 16:15
- What’s your New Year’s resolution?
- What’s one goal you set but never accomplished? Why did your goal get side-tracked?
- Which is most difficult for you: setting goals or achieving your goals? What’s difficult about it?
- What was Nehemiah’s goal and why was it so important to him?
- How do you think prayer could help you set or achieve your goals?
- What are some examples of goals that benefit people other than ourselves?
- Read Mark 16:15. What “God-sized goal” does Jesus give us? What problems or difficulties are fixed when this goal is achieved?
- What’s one “you-sized” goal you want to accomplish? What difficulties have inspired that goal?
- Do you have a “God-sized” goal you want to accomplish? What is it and what difficulties have inspired that goal?
- How can our group help you set or achieve a goal this week?