Life Group - Study Guides

Before we talk about marriages, kids, friendships, or dating, we have to start with something deeper—what it really means to know God. It’s easy to build our lives around relationships and still miss the most important one. We can even do things “for God” and yet never truly know Him. In this series, we’re going to look at all our relationships—but only after we get this right: God was never meant to be one part of our lives. He is meant to be at the center of it all. Because if we don’t know Him, every other relationship will eventually feel out of order.

This week, we’re looking at the names of God. Throughout Scripture, God reveals Himself in specific ways: provider, healer, shepherd, peace, and victory. These aren’t just titles; they show us who He is and how He meets us in real moments of life. What’s powerful is that these names don’t stay in the Old Testament. In the New Testament, we see them fully revealed through Jesus. As you walk through each passage, encourage your group to notice what each name reveals about God’s character and how that connects to Jesus. This week is about recognizing who He is and how He is at work in our lives today.

We have reached the final week of our series on worship. Over the past few weeks, we have explored what worship truly is, the posture of our hearts, worship as a sacrifice, and how to worship in desert seasons. This week, we’re finishing by looking at how worship becomes a weapon during spiritual battles. Grab your bible, pull up a seat alongside your life group family and let’s see what God might reveal to us.

Throughout Scripture we see a pattern of how quickly people can move from worship to grumbling. The Israelites experienced God’s power firsthand yet still struggled to trust Him in the desert. We’ll look at what that reveals about our own hearts and how we can choose worship, even in hard seasons.

This week in life group we are exploring another dimension of Worship: sacrifice. In most areas of life, we’re used to investing rather than sacrificing. We invest time in our jobs because we receive a paycheck. We invest money into things like retirement accounts because we expect a future return. Even in relationships, sometimes we give time or effort with the hope that we’ll receive appreciation, respect, or something back. Sacrifice is giving something valuable without expecting a return. It’s choosing to give because someone is worth it, not because it benefits us. That’s part of what makes worship unique. God doesn’t need anything from us, but when we recognize His worth, our response is often to give Him our time, attention, devotion, and trust—even when there’s no immediate benefit to us. As we look into God’s Word, we will see examples of people whose response to God went beyond convenience and comfort.