Group Questions – june 1, 2025
WHAT DO I NEED TO ASK?
- ICEBREAKER: Where in your life has the freedom to choose actually led you into trouble—or into something you later regretted? What made the “freedom” in that moment feel so appealing?
- Ask someone to read James 4:1-10 out loud.
- James opens chapter 4 with a question: “What causes fights and quarrels among you?” How does his answer challenge our assumptions about conflict?
- When you reflect on recent tension (at home, work, church), what internal desire might have been at war in you during that moment?
- How often do you pause to consider the motives behind your prayers—and what do you typically find?
- Why do you think humility is the soil in which grace grows best?
- In your life right now, where do you sense God inviting you to “come near” (v.8)? What is keeping you at a distance?
- What does resistance look like—and where does it feel hardest right now (the devil, the world, the flesh)?
- How does repentance feel to you: heavy and shameful, or liberating and hopeful? Why?
- What is one area of your life where Jesus is inviting you to walk in the “freedom of submission”?
CLOSING PRAYER:
Father, help us to walk in the freedom of submission. Show us where we need to intentionally resist in order to find the freedom you offer in following Jesus.
