CONNECT GROUPS:
The Most Important Thing– Part 2
Connect group:
● Choose ONE NIGHT a week to hold your connect group.
● Ask each member of your connect group to bring their Bible.
● If you want, you can also take communion together.
1. Ice breaker: Choose one of the following topics and talk about it:a) If Love is not a feeling, what is love then? b) Why is love both wonderful and heartbreaking?
2. Prayer: Open with prayer.
3. Read: Our Core Text for Today: Matt 22:37-40 (NIV) Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbour as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” (Two Pillars)
4. Talk in your Connect Group about the following: Love God, Love PeopleThink of the Tina Turner song: “What’s love got to do with it?”
“It’s physical
Only logical
You must try to ignore that it means more than that
Oh-oh, what’s love got to do, got to do with it?
What’s love but a second-hand emotion?
What’s love got to do, got to do with it?
Who needs a heart when a heart can be broken?”
According to this song, love is just a second-hand emotion, which should be ignored because this emotion only causes a broken heart. We must realize that Love is more than just an emotion. Love is Someone that the Father gives to us, His children. Love is a person who cannot be ignored. He is the only one who can truly heal and mend a broken heart.
Matthew 22:40 says that Love for God and Love for People are two Pillars, on which everything rests. Love is not a feeling. Love is what you give even if you don’t feel like you want to. When love is given unselfishly to even people who don’t deserve it, this “Unselfish Act” causes a steadfastness that allows every relationship to grow and develop. Love hurts, but love also heals. Each of us must learn that love is a power that causes restoration and builds and encourages people.
Also, think about the story of Samson. When he stood between the two pillars at the end of his life, and his love for God returned, his love for his people also drove him to pull the two pillars together. The entire roof of the building rested on these two pillars. The roof collapsed, and everyone perished. In the same way, withholding love causes everything around us to collapse.
Reread today’s texts and talk about them: • Read the words of the Tina Turner song again. What does this word mean to you in the context of Love for God and Love for People? • Why are Love for God and Love for people like pillars?
Now enjoy Communion together as a Connect Group:
Ask the Lord to show you who needs your selfless love this week?·
Ask the Lord to pour out His Love on you this week?