10/04/09 Leader's Guide

Glued

The Week of October 4th

Getting Started

1) What was your first computer? What was the size of the hard drive and speed of your Internet connection?

2) Share one of your (current) favorite websites to visit?

Digging Deeper

Read Matthew 5:27 -28 and answer these questions:

3) In Matthew 5:27 Jesus tell us not “lust”. In your opinion, when does looking turn to lusting? When does noticing someone is attractive turn to something wrong?

4) What advice would you give to someone who struggles with lust?

5) Read Job 31:1 – What did Job do to avoid lust? What could it look like to make a covenant with your eyes?

Read 1 Corinthians 6:18 and answer these questions:

6) 1 Corinthians 6:18 says to “flee” from sexual immorality. The word “flee” means to “run to safety” or “run to escape from danger” Can you think of a Biblical example of someone who fled to avoid immorality? What happened to them?

7) Can you think of a Biblical example of someone who didn’t get up and leave when tempted by immorality? What happened to them?

8) What safeguards do you have in your life to stay clear of immorality? Can you think of times in the past you made a decision to take yourself out of a tempting situation?

Read 1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 and answer these questions

9) What is the connection/contrast in verse 3 between sanctification and sexual immorality?

10) Verse 4 says that we need to “learn” to control our bodies in a way that honorable.According to Titus 2:11-12, what teaches us to say “no” to the wrong desires?

11) Read verse 5 – Acting out in passionate lust is a sign of someone who doesn’t know God. How does knowing God help us avoid that? What about God can we know that will help us avoid immorality?

Putting it Into Practice

What’s one thing you can away from this week’s topic?