When did you experience the unconditional love of God?  What made believing or showing love difficult? 

 

Consider the chart on the reverse page.  Are you able to make the connection between the process of spiritual growth and what it produces?  How is Christ’s work in us connected to identity and faith?  How is Christ’s work around us connected to purpose and hope?  How is Christ’s work through us connected to belonging and love? 

 

Read Mark 4:21-25.  What are the things that God reveals?  How should this be a comfort?  How is it a confrontation? 

 

Consider the Four “D’s” within the heart?  Which one is most familiar to you?  How does each restrict spiritual growth?  

 

How are honesty and humility necessary to experience more of God’s blessing in freedom from faith, in security from hope and in significance from love?  Where do you see the need for those things within your spiritual lost friends/family?  What’s a story you could tell of how God has increased your faith, hope and love?