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We hope this is a helpful resource for you as you dive deeper into the Scriptures and the messages preached at New Life Church.

• Have someone read Romans 12:9-13. Have someone else open your group in prayer.  

• What stood out to you in Jake’s sermon this week? 

• Jake named several qualities that make up a transformed community, built from Romans 12:9-13. They were: 

Authentic - a community of genuine love in a culture of pretense 

Whole - a community of restoration in a culture of brokenness 

Home - a community of belonging in a culture of isolation 

Humble - a community of self-forgetfulness in a culture of image management 

Stable - a community of steady presence in a culture of inconsistency

Hospitable - a community of open doors in a culture of exclusivity

Which of these challenged you?  

• What’s the root of that challenge? (Ask the group to help you dig if needed) 

• What does the Gospel say about this? (Ask the group for help if needed) 

• Where do you see our church doing well with this? Where do you see God at work?

• Wrap up your group in prayer, praying for our church to grow into this kind of transformed community that can be a light in a culture of darkness. Pray for us to be deeply expectant for God to work in this way among us. Pray for what was shared in questions 3-5 in your group time.