Part 4: Navigator

RUMBLE STRIPS - PART 4

 
 
 
 
 

What Rumble Strips Do For You:
1.  They alert you to danger.

2.  They are still inside the safety zone.

3.  They help you to arrive at your destination. 

  • God always uses people to grow people.

God Brings People Into Our Lives:

  • For a moment.

  • For a season.

  • For a reason.

  • For a lifetime.

  • Who has God placed in my life at the right time for something I need to give or receive?

Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up...Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.”

Ecclesiastes 4:9-10,12 (NIV)

  • Who is your navigator?

“If you belong to no groups but decide to join one, you cut your risk of dying over the next year in half.”

Robert Putnam

Excuses and Reasons We Give For Living in Isolation:

1.  Pride

2.  Lack of people we trust

3.  Fear

“Only 21% of believers say they see the need to connect with others to grow in their relationship with Jesus.”

Ed Stetzer

  • 65% say they keep their personal struggles to themselves.

“Therefore go and make disciples of all nations…”

Matthew 28:19a (NIV)

Whoever isolates himself seeks his own desire; he breaks out against all sound judgment.”

Proverbs 18:1 (ESV)

“Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.”

1 Corinthians 12:27 (NIV)

“You were running the race so well. Who has held you back from following the truth?”

Galatians 5:7 (NLT)

  • What is God teaching you?

  • How are you going to live it

“By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”

John 13:35 (NIV)

  • Are we doing John 13:35?

Next Steps

  • Who has God placed in my life for something I need to give or receive? _________________

  • Sign me up for a group.

  • Commit my life to Jesus Christ and follow Him.

  • Sign me up for baptism.

  • Reading Plan:  YouVersion® Bible App - “Small Groups: Five Habits” (7-day plan).