When you merge one of America’s favorite holidays with church you end up with an irreverent teaching competition that turns “church” into a spectator sport. Grab all your rowdy friends and make plans for Game Day 2024! There will be a stadium environment, music you’ll know, a head-to-head teaching competition, including color commentary, a rocking half-time show, as well as dim lights and easy exits if you change your mind!
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2.8+11.24 – Week 876 – Curt Walters – “Game Day Teach-Off 2024”
America’s favorite holiday, the Superbowl + church turns a good weekend into a great weekend! It’s the 14th Gameday Teachoff! Get ready for music, commercials, head to head teaching, and a little football.
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GameDay 2024 Group Guide
GAMEDAY 2024
This is the opportunity for your group will discover what God might be saying to you out of the weekend experience, and how you can respond through a group discussion.
This guide is designed to help you create meaningful conversations. Adjust the questions as needed, and don’t feel like you need to answer all of them.
Questions for discussion:
1. Most people watch the actual “big game” for the commercials or food. Share your all-time favorite Super Bowl commercial and your go-to game snack.
2. Quick revisit: Anyone have a quick story or connect on how you’ve been seeing God work through the BLESS practices this past week?
3. What stood out to you the most from the weekend Gameday messages?
4. Why do you think that stood out to you most?
5. This weekend was more than a football parody. It’s having fun and also seeing that Jesus makes our lives better and makes us better at life, shows us what we’re worth, grows us through adversity, and renews us continually. Which of these do you need most from your heavenly leader this week?
6. In quarter one, Curt talked about how Jesus is a champion who turns ordinary, messed up people into champions. What is one way you have experienced Jesus as a difference maker- in your life or through what you’ve seen in someone else’s life?
7. How do you typically measure your value/worth (feedback around you, your productivity or success, the way you feel, etc.)? What might it look like for you to take a step this week toward seeing yourself the way God sees you?
Read Romans 5:3-4: “Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame.”
8. As you read these verses, are you encouraged, intrigued or challenged? How does Paul’s description of hope resonate with you or differ from your understanding of what hope is?
9. What is one “losing” or unhelpful mindset you have taken on in the past (or present)? What do you think it practically looks like to renew your mind (or in other words- what actions, habits, or practices put us in the right position to be renewed by God)?
Close with Prayer: Make sure to go around the circle and pray for each other at the end of your gathering or close your group with prayer from :
“God thank you for your joy, grace and goodness. Remind us who we are. Show us how to be more of a team with one another. We ask for your peace and we give you all our cares & anxieties and seek your grace. Amen.”
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