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Sea Son 1 P Ar Ticip Ant Guide SEASON 1 PARTICIPANT GUIDE Table of Contents DISCUSSION GUIDE • PERSONAL STUDY • REFLECTION SCRIPTURE OVERVIEW ......................................................... 3 EPISODE 1 - CALLED MARIANO RIVERA .............................................. 13 EPISODE 2 - TRANSFORMATION WILLIE ALFONSO .............................................. 21 EPISODE 3 - REDEMPTION KYLE OXFORD .................................................... 29 EPISODE 4 - RESTORATION ROBERT AND SHARON IRVING .......................... 37 EPISODE 5 - PURPOSE TOM PATERSON ................................................. 45 EPISODE 6 - BROTHERHOOD ACHOS ................................................................ 53 EPISODE 7 - CHOICES JERRY QUIROZ ................................................... 61 EPISODE 8 - PAIN TOMMY GREEN ................................................... 71 EPISODE 9 - IDENTITY PROPAGANDA .................................................... 79 EPISODE 10 - RELOAD CLINT BRUCE ..................................................... 89 2 NO ONE DRIFTS INTO SPIRITUAL TRANSFOR- MATION. John Ortberg OVERVIEW WELCOME TO THE CORE SEASON 1 SMALL GROUP EXPERIENCE! WE ARE EXCITED YOU CHOSE TO BE A PART OF THIS JOURNEY. This is the passion behind CORE: to help men feel alive when they see who they truly are and what they were made for in the context of brotherhood. If you haven’t already, check out coreunites. com to keep in touch with other resources and events to help you win the battles over your heart, family and city. It is important for you to know that the whole reason we have produced the CORE Films and Participant Guide is to help create an environment where you can experience breakthrough in some of the most important areas of your life. 4 In spite of what our culture might tell us, life was not designed to figure things out on our own. When Jesus came to earth to start a revolution, he did so by gathering a small band of ordinary men. 5 OVERVIEW These men had their own Here are the basic elements we unique backgrounds, diverse have prepared for you: occupations and individual personalities. It was alongside one another that Jesus 10 SHORT FILMS would orchestrate learning We believe in the power of environments that would story. The films are stories of change them into the most real people, facing real life powerful transformative challenges. community in the history of the world. 10 PART DISCUSSION GUIDE Together, these men went from being self-centered individuals, We believe in the power of to united powerhouses that community. This guide will forever changed the course help facilitate small group of history. Jesus didn’t just interaction in a way that creates teach them wonderful truths. connection around things that He modeled, coached and matter. empowered them on what it took to make those truths become a living reality in the 10-PART PERSONAL STUDY challenging world in which they & SCRIPTURE READING lived. Jesus is still forming and We believe in the power of discipling powerful communities personal study and reflection. today. This gives the opportunity, between group meetings, to Our prayer is that this 10-session move the ideas from the film small group experience is the and discussion into deeper beginning of a journey that understanding and growth. transforms your group into this type of community. 6 1EPISODE MARIANO RIVERA CALLED GROUP DISCUSSION GUIDE Note: Many of you are seeing this Participant Guide for the first time. There 90 MINUTES is some foundational information in the Overview and Group Dynamics section Opening Prayer in this booklet that would be well worth reading before you meet again. Surrender time and heart to God’s leading. Watch Film (10 minutes) Mariano Rivera - Called Check In (15 minutes - 1 to 2 minutes each) Discussion (30 minutes) Be mindful of the need for everyone to 1. Share name. have the opportunity to talk. Take 1-2 2. Reasons for being in the group. minutes each time you share. 3. One thing you would like to get from 1. Which part of Mariano’s story did you participating in the group. connect with? Together Read the Guidelines on 2. Mariano said that his pitch’s new Page 10. (10 minutes) movement was not something he deserved or was asking for but was These are simple yet designed to a gift that gave him a platform to enhance your group experience. honor God. Have you ever thought 1. Does everyone in the group that way about a strength or ability in understand them? your life? Explain. 2. Are there any clarification questions regarding any of the guidelines? 3. Can we commit to these as a group? 13 Action (25 minutes) difference between randomly throwing In light of today’s discussion, what seed on the ground versus planting it is one step you can take in your life deeply. Setting aside time for personal or in your relationships this week? study and prayerful reflection is a new Something specific. Something rhythm for many. Choosing to commit measurable. Something the group can to this, along with showing up every pray for during the week. week with your group, will strengthen your ability to drop old thoughts and Read Out Loud This Special Note habits and take on new ways to think The Personal Study and Scripture and live. Reflection section in this guide is Closing Prayer included in each of the sessions. Taking Ask for God’s guidance and strength time each week to do them is one of for the week ahead. the most important things you choose to do over these next 10 weeks. It is the 14 PERSONAL STUDY EPISODE 1: MARIANO RIVERA - This means that the all- CALLED encompassing aim of your life is to reflect God to others. That looks Given Mariano’s status as the greatest uniquely different for each one relief pitcher in the history of baseball, of us. We all have different jobs, it might at first be hard to relate to different families, live in different how his journey began. It started with homes, have different backgrounds, him having virtually no awareness of a etc. But, there are some constants particular calling or specific purpose. for everyone - like reflecting God’s Calling and purpose were probably love, His goodness, His compassion, the furthest things from his mind. His forgiveness, just to name a few. Yet, regardless of what Mariano was All of us are called to reflect God or was not aware of, it is clear from to others, and we all have specific his story that God had a calling and people, places and times that we purpose for his life. get to reflect Him. In the same way, God has a specific calling and purpose for you. Look at When you get a glimpse of the what He says to you in His word: life of Mariano Rivera, you see the uniqueness of God’s calling. You did not choose me, but I chose We’re talking about the best closer you and appointed you so that you in major league history. When he might go and bear fruit—fruit that stepped on the mound in the ninth will last—and so that whatever you inning, he dominated unlike anyone ask in my name the Father will give before or after him. But his story you. John 15:16 (NIV) is much more than being a great God chose the lowly things of this pitcher. It’s a love story of God world and the despised things—and pursuing him, changing him and the things that are not—to nullify collaborating with him. the things that are, so that no one may boast before him. 1 Corinthians 1:28-29 (NIV) GOD MADE MARIANO IN HIS OWN IMAGE, AND GOD LED God has a purpose for His people. HIM TO A PARTICULAR PLACE, It’s such a wild thought, isn’t it? The WITH A PARTICULAR TALENT, TO God of the universe has chosen to SHOW GOD’S CHARACTER TO A collaborate with ordinary – everyday PARTICULAR PEOPLE. – imperfect people. He doesn’t do this because He’s been forced to and it’s definitely not because He needs Even before Mariano committed his to… but solely because He wants to. life to Christ, he became aware that God made you in His image. God was trying to get his and his Genesis 1:27 (ESV) clearly states wife’s attention. God had been using our original purpose and calling: each of Mariano’s circumstances to soften his heart and to open his “So God created man in his own eyes. One day, he heard a pastor image, in the image of God he give an invitation to become a created him; male and female he follower of Jesus. It was then, on created them.” 15 THE TWO MOST IMPORTANT DAYS IN YOUR LIFE ARE THE DAY YOU WERE BORN AND THE DAY YOU FOUND OUT WHY. Mark Twain 16 EPISODE 1 that day, that he confessed Jesus as How many gifts from God go his Lord and made Him his Savior. unnoticed or unappreciated for what If you openly declare that Jesus is they are? It is so easy to experience Lord and believe in your heart that blessings in our relationships and God raised him from the dead, you careers without seeing them for will be saved. For it is by believing in what they really are. They are all your heart that you are made right opportunities to experience the with God, and it is by openly declaring graciousness of God in our lives and your faith that you are saved. Romans to use them to honor Him. 10:9-10 (NLT) We use the gifts that God has given Mariano said, “That was the moment us in one of two ways: to honor God, that I said, ‘I surrender. I can’t do this or to honor ourselves. Oftentimes we thing anymore.’ That moment was can start believing that we are the something special… I said to God, ones who are responsible for these whatever you want us to do, we are gifts in our lives.
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