Each session we will cover our 3 key areas:
Inspire + Engage
Support + Coach
Review + Update
Start your time with:
A warm welcome & prayer.
Intro to i61m
Coach: explain why you have started the group, and share your own story (where they are up to in sharing life, faith & Jesus – successes and challenges!)
Support & Coach
Be encouraged, Jesus is sharing this Journey with us…
An essential tool on our journey is the i61 app. You’ll go through our welcome experience, create your account and instant access to our video resources, goal setting tools, connect with the movement and more. It’s designed to help you put your faith into action!
What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.
> Download the App
Lets download the app now and sign up together just in case there are any questions about the sign up process. We will use the app as part of our monthly discussions to help us recall progress and record what we feel God is leading us to do next.
Review & Update
Coach: After completing the signup questionnaire, reflect with the group on the answers and then think about a potential goal.
Here are a few suggestions to get you started in sharing life, discuss as a group other things you might do too:
- Invite neighbours round for a meal
- Ask a school parent to go for a coffee after drop off
- Take your earphones out at the gym and look for opportunities to engage others
- Say yes to those invitations (work ‘do’, community garden party, etc)
- Walk your dog at the same time each day so you will bump into the same people
- Plan an open house with those in your neighbourhood
- At work, take an interest in the lives of your colleagues beyond the day to day work life. Ask them questions, find out about family, hobbies and interests - you may be interested in the same things!
- Sign up to a ‘friends of’ group with your local park/nature reserve.
- Join a club / take a new class e.g. running / gym / art
> Set first goal!
Record your goal in the app. Set your deadline, and we have made a start!
Tonight we’ve made a great first step in the journey towards sharing Jesus with others which is something to celebrate! Next session we will look at what it means to ‘Share Life’ with people who don’t know Jesus and how we might be able to do that.
Engage
Join the Whatsapp
We’ll set up a Whatsapp group to message each other to keep in touch. If you have any prayer requests, encouragements or testimonies in your sharing journey, share these with the group on the chat!
Before we finish if you know of another Christian friend who would want to be part of the group then they would be really welcome to join at our next meeting, let me know if you have a friend to invite.
Finish your time with:
Thanks and prayers for the month ahead.
WE'RE IN THIS TOGETHER
If we can help in any way please email us at support@i61m.org.
