12.15.19

Zach Below   -   December 15, 2019

INTRO

This is our last huddle of 2019! The Holidays are always a great time for reflection, evaluation, and vision casting. So, that’s exactly what we’re doing this week.

 

REFLECTION

  1. What was your favorite Christmas or New Year’s tradition growing up? Have you kept it up?

 

  1. What is the best Christmas present you ever received? Ever gave?

 

  1. How did you bring in the new millennium? Think back to New Years Eve 2019…where were you and what were you doing?

 

  1. What has God taught you in 2019? Or…what did you wrestling with God about?

 

 

EVALUATION 

  1. What is your current posture towards God, others and what is happening in your life? Thankful, unthankful, trusting, mistrusting, honest, hiding, in denial, drawing nearer, drawing away, joyful, numb, bitter, excited, etc?

 

  1. How does being involved in a group or team contribute to your spiritual formation?

 

  1. What are presently the most powerful practices and habits in your life, negative or positive?

 

 

VISION CASTING

  1. In view of who you want to become, what practices or habits need to be eliminated, changed and what practices or habits might need to be added and developed?

 

  1. Name one way your group or team could grow closer to Christ or each other in 2020?

 

  1. What is one way that your group or team can challenge one another to engage in reflection on Scripture daily?

 

 

SCRIPTURE ACTIVITY

As a group, read “Zechariah’s Song” found in Luke 1:67-80. This is his response to the birth of his son (John the Baptist) who was to be the forerunner of Christ.

 

Zechariah’s Song

67 His father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied:

68 “Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel,
because he has come to his people and redeemed them.
69 He has raised up a horn[a] of salvation for us
in the house of his servant David
70 (as he said through his holy prophets of long ago),
71 salvation from our enemies
and from the hand of all who hate us—
72 to show mercy to our ancestors
and to remember his holy covenant,
73     the oath he swore to our father Abraham:
74 to rescue us from the hand of our enemies,
and to enable us to serve him without fear
75     in holiness and righteousness before him all our days.

76 And you, my child, will be called a prophet of the Most High;
for you will go on before the Lord to prepare the way for him,
77 to give his people the knowledge of salvation
through the forgiveness of their sins,
78 because of the tender mercy of our God,
by which the rising sun will come to us from heaven
79 to shine on those living in darkness
and in the shadow of death,
to guide our feet into the path of peace.”

80 And the child grew and became strong in spirit[b]; and he lived in the wilderness until he appeared publicly to Israel.

 

 

  1. What did you hear? What word or phrase stuck out to you from this text?

 

  1. How does this text point to or connect with Jesus?

 

 

PRAYER ACTIVITY

Take time to pray as a group. Have the leader open up with prayer, and then, if willing, have group members pray one word which represents a way they would like to see God move in their own hearts, the church or the city in 2020. Leaders close.

 

 

PRACTICE

Take time this week to further reflect on the questions from this week’s huddle. Spend time journaling the 1 or 2 that you are drawn to.