Craig Groeschel - WEIRD Participants Guide: Because Normal Isnt Working
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In this six-session small group Bible study (DVD/digital video sold separately), pastor and bestselling author Craig Groeschel shatters normal and turns weird upside down.
Normal people are stressed, overwhelmed, and exhausted. Many of their relationships are, at best, strained and, in most cases, just surviving. Even though we live in one of the most prosperous places on earth, normal is still living paycheck to paycheck and never getting ahead. Lust and frequent casual sex are far more common than purity and a healthy married sex life. And when it comes to God, the many believe, but few practice the teachings of Scripture in their everyday lives.
Simply put, normal isnt working. In this study, Groeschels WEIRD views will help you break free from the norm to lead a radically abnormal (and endlessly more fulfilling) life.
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Designed for use with the Weird Video Study (sold separately).
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PARTICIPANTS GUIDE SIX SESSIONS
Because normal isnt working.
GROESCHEL
WITH CHRISTINE M. ANDERSON
Group Size
The Weird video curriculum is designed to be experienced in a group setting such as a Bible study, Sunday school class, or any small group gathering. To ensure everyone has enough time to participate in discussions, it is recommended that large groups break up into smaller groups of four to six people each.
Materials Needed
Each participant should have his or her own Participants Guide, which includes video outline notes, directions for activities, and discussion questions, as well as a reading plan and personal studies to deepen learning between sessions. Although the course can be fully experienced with just the video and Participants Guide, participants are also encouraged to have a copy of the Weird book. Reading the book alongside the video curriculum provides even deeper insights that make the journey richer and more meaningful.
Timing
The time notations for example (17 minutes) indicate the actual time of video segments and the suggested time for each activity or discussion. For example:
| Individual Activity | What I Want to Remember (2 Minutes) |
Adhering to the suggested times will enable you to complete each session in one hour. If you have additional time, you may wish to allow more time for discussion and activities.
Facilitation
Each group should appoint a facilitator who is responsible for starting the video and for keeping track of time during discussions and activities. Facilitators may also read questions aloud and monitor discussions, prompting participants to respond and assuring that everyone has the opportunity to participate.
Between-Sessions Personal Study
Maximize the impact of the course with additional study between group sessions. Setting aside about an hour for personal study will enable you to complete the book and between-session studies by the end of the course. For each session, you may wish to complete the personal study all in one sitting or to spread it out over a few days.
Ebook Instructions
In this ebook edition, please use your devices note-taking function to record your thoughts wherever you see the bracketed instructions [Your Notes] or [Your Response]. Use your devices highlighting function whenever you are asked to checkmark, circle, underline, or otherwise indicate your answer(s).
THE GOD
KIND OF WEIRD
The most spiritually dangerous things in me are the habits of thought, feeling, and action that I regard as normal, because everyone is like that and its only human.
D ALLAS W ILLARD, T HE D IVINE C ONSPIRACY
| Video: | The God Kind of Weird (17 Minutes) |
Play the video segment for session 1. As you watch, use the outline below to follow along or to take notes on anything that stands out to you.
Notes
The problem with being normal today is that normal will get you sucked into all sorts of things that can be really hurtful to you.
[Your Notes]
Examples of how weird Jesus was (Luke 6:27 30):
Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you.
Bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.
If someone slaps you on one cheek, turn to them the other also.
If someone takes your coat, do not withhold your shirt from them.
Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back.
[Your Notes]
Jesus didnt do anything like normal people did.
[Your Notes]
Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it (Matthew 7:13 14).
[Your Notes]
Normal may not be good when it comes to God.
[Your Notes]
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God not by works, so that no one can boast (Ephesians 2:8 9).
[Your Notes]
Normal is broken. Normal doesnt work.
[Your Notes]
There is a God kind of weird. Its about:
Being different from the values of this world.
Living for the things that will outlast this temporary world.
Laying down your life to glorify the God of the universe.
[Your Notes]
Think about what is considered normal today:
Time: overwhelmed, burdened, stressed out
Money: broke, worry, debt
Sex: sexual sin, promiscuity, affairs
Marriage: bitterness, lack of intimacy, divorce
Spirituality: lukewarm Christianity
Normal is living for ourselves and not living for something greater.
[Your Notes]
If we are normal like everybody else, then we are not following Jesus.
[Your Notes]
When you follow Jesus, you will be called weird.
[Your Notes]
| Group Discussion: | The God Kind of Weird (41 Minutes) |
Take a few minutes to talk about what you just watched.
1. What part of the teaching had the most impact on you?
[Your Response]
2. Generally speaking, how do you determine what makes something normal and what makes something weird? If you can think of an example from your own experience, briefly share it.
[Your Response]
Normal Is Broken
3. To be normal is to conform to common standards and customs. It usually means that something is ordinary, average, typical, or routine. Among people you knowfamily and friends how would you describe normal attitudes and behaviors in these areas:
Pace of life
[Your Response]
Personal finances
[Your Response]
Relationships
[Your Response]
Marriage/dating/sexuality
[Your Response]
Spiritual life
[Your Response]
4. In what ways, if any, does your faith community reinforce or challenge these normal attitudes and behaviors? Note any specific examples you can think of.
Having faith often means doing what others see as crazy. Something is wrong when our lives make sense to unbelievers.
Francis Chan,
Crazy Love
[Your Response]
5. How do you respond to the idea that if we are normal like everyone else we arent following Jesus?
[Your Response]
Jesus Was Weird
6. Among the weirdest things Jesus taught are countercultural ideas about how we are to treat others both our enemies and our friends and what our behavior toward others reveals about us. Here is what he had to say about enemies:
But to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. If someone slaps you on one cheek, turn to them the other also. If someone takes your coat, do not withhold your shirt from them. Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back. Do to others as you would have them do to you (Luke 6:27 31).
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