SESSION 1: Are You Related to God?
1. Welcome
2. Share your name and your response to these introductory sharing questions:
- Where did you grow up?
- How many brothers and sisters did you have?
3. Personal time to draw your life graph (see Appendix A for the form page in Figure A-1 and the instructions on page 146 for drawing your graph). Take 20 minutes for thinking and drawing.
4. Share life graphs (in groups of three)
5. Praying as a group.
- Pray the following prayer (or a short one like it) for the person in your group sitting to your right.
"God, I pray that you will help <first name> to be surprised at how much he (or she) grows spiritually from our reading and discussion of this book."
6. Assignment for next week
- Read Chapter 2 and think about what stood out to you in this chapter.