Beth Moore - Chasing Vines Group Experience: Finding Your Way to an Immensely Fruitful Life

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Chasing Vines Group Experience: Finding Your Way to an Immensely Fruitful Life

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To Cindy:
I can give no higher compliment to anyone than to say you increased our love for the true Vine. We will be forever grateful for your hospitality and, even more so, for your faith. We will love you, your family, and your vineyards all our lives.

For the love of the Vine,

Beth

Thank you for investing your time into leading a group through the Chasing VinesGroup Experience. I pray that it will be a meaningful time for all of you as you meet together to read, discuss, and pray about what it means to abide in Christ and live fruitful lives. You are my partner in this journey, and I am deeply grateful for you. I am praying for you and those you lead!

Here are a few suggestions to help your group run smoothly:

• The study is designed to be done over six sessions. We recommend that groups meet for an hour minimum per gathering to get the most out of the experience. Here is your weekly rhythm:
  • Group Gathering:
  • Discuss the questions from the previous week.
  • Watch the DVD message for that session.
  • As time permits, discuss anything notable in the message. (optional)
  • Close in prayer.
  • On Your Own:
  • Read the assigned part of Chasing Vines.
  • Complete homework (or as much as possible) before the next gathering.
  • Repeat until your final gathering for session 6!
• Before your group meets each session, ask God to direct your discussion in a way that honors Him and benefits all the participants.
• Encourage those in your group to read the designated chapters in Chasing Vines and work through the study on their own before you meet. The discussion will be deeper and more meaningful if everyone is prepared.
• If you find you dont have time to get through all the material in one meeting, choose a few specific areas to focus on. You could pick one of the two Planting the Seed sections to work through first, adding the second if you have time.
• Include a time of prayer at the end of the meeting. Encourage your group members to pray for one another throughout the week.
• Encourage your group members to choose one or two of the application suggestions at the end of each sessions study. You might follow up the next week and ask participants to share their experiences.

The L ORD God planted a garden.

GENESIS 2:8

Meet with your group and watch session 1 of the DVD before you begin reading Chasing Vines. This is your introduction to the entire experience you have ahead. I want to officially welcome you!

Discussion: Leader, invite participants to share what has drawn them to Chasing Vines and the group experience.

Watch session 1 of the DVD. Use the Listening Guide as you view the message.

1. 1. What is the goal for this book and the coinciding journey? (Fill in the blanks.)

   For every reader, without exception, to ____________ with Jesus and grow in ______________ in a way that results in ____________________ fruit bearing.

2. 2. Why is living a fruitful life in Christ a priority? (Fill in the blanks.)
   • Your fruitfulness brings direct ____________________.
   • Your fruitfulness brings direct ____________________.
   • Your fruitfulness brings both direct and indirect ____________________.
   • Your fruitfulness brings ____________________.
   • Your fruitfulness brings ____________________, who hoped to ____________________.
3. 3. What is your hope and desire for fruitfulness? What do you want to get out of this Chasing Vines experience?

Read Colossians 1:1-12. Personalize it into the following petition, to be prayed often in the pursuit of an immensely fruitful life.

____________________, that I may be filled with the knowledge of Your will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding, so that I may walk worthy of You, Lord, fully pleasing to You: ____________________ and growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power, according to Your glorious might, so that I may have great __________ and patience, ____________________ to You, my Father, who have enabled me to share in the saints of inheritance in the light. ____________________ from the domain of darkness and transferred me into the Kingdom of Your Son whom You love. (Taken from Colossians 1:9-13, CSB )