Worship / Leader Guide week of 11-30-08

Small Group Leaders Guide
November 30, 2008

Series: Go Big
Message: Worship A Big God

Getting Started:
1. Describe for your group, what it might look like for you to “dance with all your might.” Demonstrate if necessary.

Going Deeper:
2. Read 2Samuel 6:12-15. What got into King David that made him start dancing? What is likely to happen if you made such a public display? Read verse 16.

3. Share some of your favorite verses that point to how “big” God is.

• Romans 8:31-39
• Genesis 1:1
• Psalm 19
• Psalm 33
• Psalm 103
• Revelation 21:1-7
• Luke 9:43
• Philippians 3:4-8
• 1Chronicles 29:14

4. In 1Chronicles 22:6-8, God wouldn’t allow David to build the temple because “you have shed much blood and have fought many wars.” And we all know about the Bathsheba incident! Yet, in 1Samuel 13:14, David is described as a man after God’s own heart. How can someone with blood on his hands and adultery in his heart be a man after God’s own heart? What does it take to be a person after God’s own heart? What doesn’t it take?

• If David is the example, we can easily see that we don’t have to be perfect people to be used by God.
• Even though David made big mistakes, he was repentant and willing to be corrected.

5. What is worship? What definition would you find in a dictionary for worship?

• Two words that are common in definitions for worship are “adoration” and “devotion.”

6. In the life of David we see worship as a common thread. Read Psalm 63. How does David show a heart of worship in this psalm? When do you long for God the most?

7. When do you feel most worshipful? Is there a certain verse, passage, song, etc that really helps you come into God’s presence with a heart of worship? Share that with your group.


Putting it into practice:
8. Are you in a “dry and weary land” in some sense right now? What do you think David would suggest if you could ask him for advice? What would members of your small group suggest?

Quote Of The Week:
God is not safe, and He will not be squeezed into some neat, respectable Sunday discussion. God in a box – with a little package of hot sauce and a toy surprise. No. To know God at all is to watch Him explode any box we put Him in with His terror, majesty, and indescribable wonder.
--James MacDonald