TaLKING POINTS / WALKING POINTS

View the sermon summary or dig deeper into the message during the sermon, in your personal Bible study, or with your family or Community Group in application-driven discussion.

Choose the blessing of God over those fleeting things this world offers.

Application / Challenge

• * Choose to make involvement in your local church a top priority for your family.
• * Decide that whatever else your family spends money on, there will always be money for mission trips and church camps and activities, so that your children will fall in love with the God who sent his Son to die for them.
• * Choose to faithfully support the ministries of your church.
• * Choose to love your spouse through all the difficulties and hard stretches.
• * Choose to build godly values into your children by being an example.
• * Choose to carefully guard what your children are exposed to on television and the internet.
• * Choose to love your God with your whole heart.
• * Choose to keep his blessing on your kids.

TAKE ONE STEP

Each week, write down one doable concrete step of obedience, small or large, that you will put into practice this week. (James 1:22: “But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves.”)

COMMUNITY GROUP LEADER’S GUIDE

Community group leaders, use this version of Talking Points / Walking Points.