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Small Group Curriculum SMALL GROUP CURRICULUM TABLE OF WE BELIEVE SMALL GROUP CURRICULUM CONTENTS week 1 We Believe God is Calling Us to Dynamic Faith week 2 We Believe God is Leading Us to Great Sacrifce week 3 We Believe God is Inviting Us to Long-Term Faithfulness week 4 We Believe God is Guiding Us into the Unknown week 5 We Believe God Rewards the Faithful week 6 We Believe God Has Prepared Us to Cross Over WE BELIEVE week 1 SMALL GROUP CURRICULUM HEBREWS 11:1–3, 6 >HOOK MAIN POINT: We Believe God is Calling Us to Dynamic Faith Daniel Eugene “Rudy” Ruettiger grew up in Joliet, Illinois, dreaming of playing college football at the University of Notre Dame. Though he achieved some success with his local high school team he lacked the grades or money to attend Notre Dame, not to mention the physical ability to play football for a major intercollegiate program. Following his dream, he traveled to South Bend, Indiana, but failed to get admitted to Notre Dame. With the help and sponsorship of a local priest, Rudy enrolled at Holy Cross College, and, after two years and three rejections, was fnally admitted to Notre Dame during his fnal semester of transfer eligibility. After “walking on” as a non-scholarship player for the football team, Ruettiger convinced coach Ara Parseghian to give him a spot on the practice squad. Coach Parseghian agreed to Rudy’s request to suit up for one home game his senior year. Parseghian, however, resigned as coach following the 1974 season, replaced by former NFL coach Dan Devine. Coach Devine kept Rudy on the team, but refused to list him on the active playing roster. After a series of events that are still disputed to this day, Devine let Rudy dress for the last game of that season. This story is a great example of dynamic faith. In spite of nearly every circumstance stacked against Rudy, he pressed on with assurance and conviction with the object of his faith, which was to become a member of the Fighting Irish. DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: (1) How do we see Rudy exhibit dynamic faith as he pursues his dream to become a member of the Fighting Irish? (2) How does Rudy’s story capture the essence of faith? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudy_(flm) >BOOK HEBREWS 11:1–3, 6 MAIN POINT: We Believe God is Calling Us to Dynamic Faith Text Summary: Hebrews 11 centers on the essence of demonstrated faith. 1) God should be the object of our faith. True faith is demonstrated by real action. If we are convinced that joy is on the other side of action we will take said action, sometimes at great cost. The opposite of this is true too. When we don’t believe joy is on the other side of action, we won’t move toward it. The “root” of Christian sacrifce is found in the assurance of joy in a better and abiding possession, Jesus Christ. Many times we put the object of our faith on things or people that do not have the capacity for sustaining such weight and we usually fnd this out the hard way. C. F. Pfeifer rightly notes that, “The guiding principle of the Christian life is faith. This is not simply a psychological factor, however. To some people faith means believing that you can do a job better than you have done it in the past, or believing that a loved one will rise from his bed of sickness. There may be real value in such “positive thinking,” but this is not the meaning of faith. True Biblical faith has God as its object.” Have you ever asked yourself what the real object of your faith is? You might best discover this question by asking yourself what’s the one thing you could never live without? DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: (1) What was the object of Rudy’s faith? What would have become of Rudy’s life if he had never reached his goal? (2) How could you go about discovering the false object(s) of faith in your life? (3) Why is God the only true object of faith? 2) Biblical faith has a one-two punch. When we look closely at Hebrews 11:1-3 we fnd the essence of real faith. The word “assurance” in Hebrews 11:1 is the Greek word hupostasis, which also appears in Hebrews 1:3 as “exact representation.” The word hupostasis refers to “real essence” or “real content” rather than just the pithy appearance of something. The writer of Hebrews is telling us that real faith has real substance and this real substance is found in the real promises of God. ______________________________ 1 Pfeifer, C.F. The Epistle to the Hebrews. Chicago, IL: Moody Press, 1962. The essence of faith also includes the “conviction of things not seen.” This phrase points us to demonstrated faith as a response to our assurances. When our faith is rooted in the assurance of God’s promises our lives demonstrate faith in those promises. We see this illustrated by the writer of Hebrews in verse 3 regarding creation. Faith for the sake of faith is not real faith. Real faith is a rooted assurance giving life to deep conviction in the promises of God. DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: (1) What is the essence of hope that is so often peddled to us by our culture? (2) Discuss the one-two punch of assurance and conviction and how they are together the essence of real biblical faith in God. (3) Discuss how assurance and conviction are demonstrated in the diferent facets of our lives as Christians. 3) Dynamic faith pleases God. Hebrews chapter 11, verses 2 and 6 show us that faith is relying on what God has done rather than on one’s own eforts. Jerry Bridges’ practical defnition of faith is that which “involves both a renunciation and a reliance. First, we must renounce any trust in our own performance as the basis of our acceptance before God. Second, we must place our reliance entirely on the perfect obedience and sin-bearing death of Christ as the sole basis of our standing before God—on our best days as well as our worst.” How does it make you feel when someone takes you at your word? If you are a parent, you know how frustrating it is when your child seems to question everything you have to say. It is easy to begin to wonder how it is possible for a small child to have such doubt that you as the parent might be wrong or not trustworthy. Imagine what God must think when His children question or doubt what He has to say about their lives or their circumstances? Faith in simple terms is believing that God will keep His promises, despite circumstances that seem to be to the contrary! In short, “looks can be deceiving!” We can take heart in knowing that we have not seen the end of the story, no matter how bleak things may seem at the moment. DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: (1) Why does a life of demonstrated faith please God? (2) In what areas or under what circumstances of our lives do we struggle most to trust God? (3) Are you so assured of God’s promises that you would joyfully accept the plundering of your dreams, your fnances, or your life itself because you know Christ is better? ______________________________ 2 Bridges, Jerry. The Bookends of the Christian Life. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2009. >TOOK MAIN POINT: We Believe God is Calling Us to Dynamic Faith We started this lesson by considering the dynamic faith demonstrated in the movie, Rudy. The shortcoming of Rudy’s faith was its object. Rudy’s faith was ultimately rooted in himself and his ability to accomplish his dreams – playing football at Notre Dame. What happened when Rudy failed to accomplish something? What happened when circumstances, to which Rudy was powerless, rose up in his life? If we are not careful, our hearts will lead us to objects of faith that can’t satisfy and will ultimately fail us. Only God is strong enough to sustain the weight of faith. For many people, the hardest part of their lives to show complete faith in God is in the area of their fnances. Usually we end up authoring excuse after excuse of why God wouldn’t want me to give my money to someone else. These excuses can turn into false objects of faith, just like Rudy’s false object of his faith was himself. DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: (1) Can you think of someone whose open displays of faith have had a lasting impact on your Christian life? What did they do and how did it impact you? (2) How can you move toward a more dynamic faith in God, especially in the area of your fnances? WE BELIEVE week 2 SMALL GROUP CURRICULUM HEBREWS 11:4 >HOOK MAIN POINT: We Believe God is Leading Us to Great Sacrifce Kerri Strug became an instant celebrity during the 1996 Olympic games. With the U.S. team’s gold medal on the line, Strug stepped on the mat to execute a second vault even though she had torn two ligaments in her foot on her frst try. Her commitment to the team and her frm belief that Olympians fnish strong pushed her to vault again. She scored a 9.712 and America took home the gold. What most people forget about that magical moment is that Strug didn’t necessarily have to perform her last vault.
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