Christ Community Downtown
Restart Smart - September 30 | Downtown
How to Surround Yourself with the Right People - 9:00 & 10:45am
Locations & Times
Christ Community - Downtown Campus
208 W 19th St, Kansas City, MO 64108, USA
Saturday 3:00 AM
Week 3 || Restart Smart | How to Surround Yourself with the Right People
Date: 9.30.18
Text: Proverbs 15:22; 12:15
Conversation Starters help us dig deeper, connecting Sunday’s sermons with our everyday lives. These prompts have been designed to help Community Groups grow in their relationship with God, with one another, and with their neighbors.
Proverbs teaches that Restarting Smart works best when we surround ourselves with wise people. In so many ways, we become who we spend our time with, for good or for ill.
Talk about a time when you saw someone suffer because of his or her relationships. What happened?
READ PROVERBS 13:20. Think about wise friends that you’ve had at different points in your life. In what ways did your friendship with them make you wiser?
How do you determine if someone is a wise addition to your inner circle of close friends?
READ PROVERBS 14:7. What might be some signs that a person is someone whose influence in your life needs to lessen? What does it look like to take healthy steps away from a person who influences you negatively?
READ PROVERBS 12:15. What makes taking advice difficult? Who are some people in your life (family, friends, coworkers, and neighbors) who you should be listening to for advice?
PRAY: Ask the Lord to give you discernment to know the wise people who you should receive counsel from to grow. Also, ask the Lord to give you the humility to accept advice from wise friends and the wisdom to set boundaries with people who are foolish.
Date: 9.30.18
Text: Proverbs 15:22; 12:15
Conversation Starters help us dig deeper, connecting Sunday’s sermons with our everyday lives. These prompts have been designed to help Community Groups grow in their relationship with God, with one another, and with their neighbors.
Proverbs teaches that Restarting Smart works best when we surround ourselves with wise people. In so many ways, we become who we spend our time with, for good or for ill.
Talk about a time when you saw someone suffer because of his or her relationships. What happened?
READ PROVERBS 13:20. Think about wise friends that you’ve had at different points in your life. In what ways did your friendship with them make you wiser?
How do you determine if someone is a wise addition to your inner circle of close friends?
READ PROVERBS 14:7. What might be some signs that a person is someone whose influence in your life needs to lessen? What does it look like to take healthy steps away from a person who influences you negatively?
READ PROVERBS 12:15. What makes taking advice difficult? Who are some people in your life (family, friends, coworkers, and neighbors) who you should be listening to for advice?
PRAY: Ask the Lord to give you discernment to know the wise people who you should receive counsel from to grow. Also, ask the Lord to give you the humility to accept advice from wise friends and the wisdom to set boundaries with people who are foolish.
Title: How to Surround Yourself with the Right People
Scripture: Proverbs 15:22; 12:15
Speaker: Gabe Coyle, GabeC@ChristCommunityKC.org
>> Who you listen to shapes who you become.
Scripture: Proverbs 15:22; 12:15
Speaker: Gabe Coyle, GabeC@ChristCommunityKC.org
>> Who you listen to shapes who you become.
>> How to surround yourself with the right people.
“there are just some folks who make a career at one or the other.”
- Henry Cloud
- Henry Cloud
>> There is a wrong kind of person: the fool.
>> Key characteristic of a fool:
- who they are and what they long for over any one failure.
- who they are and what they long for over any one failure.
>> Diagnostic questions that help reveal a fool:
1. Do you sense anger is always beneath the surface?
2. Do they lack a filter when they speak to others?
3. Do you sense a lack of grace towards others’ mistakes?
1. Do you sense anger is always beneath the surface?
2. Do they lack a filter when they speak to others?
3. Do you sense a lack of grace towards others’ mistakes?
>> There is a right kind of person: the wise.
>> Key characteristic of the wise:
- who they are and what they long for over any one accomplishment.
- who they are and what they long for over any one accomplishment.
>> Diagnostic questions that help affirm someone is wise::
1. Are they committed to the truth at all costs?
2. Are they zealous about what’s right for everyone?
3. Do they treat every human being with respect and dignity?
1. Are they committed to the truth at all costs?
2. Are they zealous about what’s right for everyone?
3. Do they treat every human being with respect and dignity?
>> Do an inventory of who is speaking into your life.
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