12 Habits for Holiness - Week 9

Matt Stout [Associate Campus & Student Minister]

Mark 10:35–45

Habits for Our Holiness

by Philip Nation

Week of July 14, 2019 My House Worship Guide

Day 1 

Read: Mark 10:35-45

Pray: 

• Thank God that He is the only one able to sit on the throne and that He is greater than all.

• Thank God for the willingness of Jesus to serve rather than to be served.

• Ask God to give you the heart of Jesus and the desire to serve as He did.

Sing: Broken Alabaster - My House Worship Sessions 

Day 2 

Read: Philippians 2:1-11

Pray: 

• Thank God for the example of Jesus who willingly humbled himself, even to the point of death.

• Thank God for exalting Jesus, the servant King, above all else.

• Ask God for the same mind that is Christ, without selfish ambition or conceit, humbly serving others.

Sing: Broken Alabaster - My House Worship Sessions 

Day 3 

Read: Acts 6:1-7

Pray:

• Thank God for His good design that the whole body of Christ would be committed to serve.

• Ask God to search your heart and show you where and how you can serve others.

• Ask God to make your service faithful and fruitful.

Sing: Broken Alabaster - My House Worship Sessions 

Week of July 14, 2019 Discussion Questions

Get to know me: 

Instructions: The purpose of these questions is to generate responses that are self-revealing and informative. Feel free to ask all of these questions to your group or simply choose the one that best fits your group.

1. If you were independently wealthy and don’t have to work, what would you do with your time?

2. Why do we often act selfishly?

3. Who is the most selfless person you have ever met?

Into the Bible:

Instructions: The purpose of these questions is to draw group members into the Bible to discover truth from passages that were not the primary text for the weekend message.

Read Philippians 2:3-8

1. How would you summarize this passage?

2. What are some ways we can count others more important than ourself?

3. Why was it important for Jesus to model being a servant?
   

 Application: 

Instructions: The purpose of these questions is to apply the main points from the weekend message.

1. What are some specific, practical ways to humbly serve people in our lives? 

2. Think about how God gifted you.  How can you best use those gifts to serve your church? Your community?

3.  What is holding you back from serving somewhere right away?