Macedonia UMC Connect Groups

Connect This is the final week in this series that has dug into where our hearts are when we think about money.   Hopefully you have had strong conversations and convicting realizations in your groups that lead to deep insight and change.   As your group gathers, invite them to share any insight that they have had through this series about money and their relationship to it. Pray This series has been focused a lot around this measure of Trusting, which features a question about priority : Where does God rank? Tonight in your group, invite every person to share the answer to this question and then pray together: Where does God rank in your finances ? Reflect Spend time looking at Proverbs 19:17, Proverbs 28:27, and Acts 4:32-37.   Invite sharing and discussion around these passages, specifically around this idea of generosity. Then invite your group to share stories of generous people in their lives.   Pastor Kevin shared many stories fro...

Priority: How Are My Finances Spiritual? Connect Your groups have been meeting for over a month, and hopefully they have a good rhythm going now.   As you gather this week, I invite you to consider a question together: What is the hardest thing for you to share? Pray The question of Trust is one that we have considered for multiple weeks. “Where does God rank?” is a key question to consider when we are thinking about our financial lives.   As your group holds one another accountable, invite them to pick one of the measures to wrestle with as you share and pray together: Passionate: Where did I see God today? Accepting: How am I building diverse relationships? Invitational: Who am I connecting with God’s family? Trusting: Where does God rank? Active: How am I engaged with God’s work? Reflect In some ways, this sermon was the most easy to understand. It may also be the most difficult one to put into practice.   Here’s a one-minute video...