SMALL GROUP QUESTIONS:

1. How might you be obsessed with what people think of you?

2. Describe a time when you were criticized for you obedience to God. What did you learn from your experience?

3. What has God put on your heart? What ordinary act of obedience do you need to take?

4. Read and discuss Matthew 1:18-25.

5. How does it affect you when you obsess over what people think about you?

6. Why do you think obsessing over what others think of us rather than what God thinks of us is such a problem for so many people?

7. Describe a time when you took a step of ordinary obedience as a result of something God put on your heart. What extraordinary act of God resulted from your ordinary obedience?

8. In what ways has God shown you what He thinks of you?

9. What steps do you need to take to stop living for people and instead start living fully for God?

10. Take steps to stop living people and instead start living fully for God by reading and talking over the following Bible passages this week:

Day 1: Matthew 1:18-25

Day 2: Galatians 1:6-10

Day 3: Proverbs 29:25

Day 4: 1 Thessalonians 2:1-8

Day 5: John 12:37-43

Day 6: 2 Corinthians 5:6-10

Day 7: Romans 12:1-2