Each session we will cover our 3 key areas:
Inspire + Engage
Support + Coach
Review + Update
Start your time with:
Welcome & Prayer
Inspire
Welcome any new people joining – it’s fantastic to see more people wanting to share Jesus!
Give an overview of i61m and get new people to download the app and sign up so everyone is at the same point and ready to go.
Update: How has everyone been?
Coach: share own story in the group of how your month/goal went.
How has this month gone for everyone? Each person in the group shares how they have been doing and any testimonies.
A reminder to encourage us:
Share LIFE
Now Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John— although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples. So he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee.
Now he had to go through Samaria. So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.
When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?” (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)
The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)
Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”
“Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”
Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”
He told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.”
“I have no husband,” she replied.
Jesus said to her, “You are right when you say you have no husband. The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true.”
“Sir,” the woman said, “I can see that you are a prophet. Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.”
“Woman,” Jesus replied, “believe me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.”
The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”
Then Jesus declared, “I, the one speaking to you—I am he.”
Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through. A man was there by the name of Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector and was wealthy. He wanted to see who Jesus was, but because he was short he could not see over the crowd. So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore-fig tree to see him, since Jesus was coming that way.
When Jesus reached the spot, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, come down immediately. I must stay at your house today.” So he came down at once and welcomed him gladly.
All the people saw this and began to mutter, “He has gone to be the guest of a sinner.”
But Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, “Look, Lord! Here and now I give half of my possessions to the poor, and if I have cheated anybody out of anything, I will pay back four times the amount.”
Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because this man, too, is a son of Abraham.
I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.
Questions: Who do we know that we could share life with? Are there non-Christians that we don’t know that well that we could start to get to know?
Prayer: Ask the Holy Spirit who God is highlighting to you & share with the group.
If new people are in the group then discuss the importance of finding non-christians to share life with and go through options of how to do this from last week if people need ideas.
Review & Update
How have we gotten on with the goal we set up last month? Group discussion around what people have done to include more non-christians in their lives and to be purposeful about the connections they are making with non-christians.
Has anyone completed a goal? Celebrate Successes!
- Hang out with someone you met through a club / interest group
- Inviting neighbours for a meal/drinks
- Inviting a work colleague to lunch
- Inviting a parent on the school run for a coffee
- Going to the pub after football with the team
- Offering to help someone in an area of need (ie. moving house, decorating, gardening etc)
- Invite a friend with a dog on a walk.
> Set the goal!
Record your goal in the app. Set reminders as required to continue your journey.
Tonight we’ve made a great next step in the journey towards sharing Jesus with others! Next month we will look at what it means to ‘Share Faith’ with people who don’t know Jesus and how we might be able to do that.
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.
