Meeting 9 [Mission] - Cost of Comfort
Icebreaker: "What's a comfort or convenience you'd have the hardest time giving up — like your morning coffee routine, your favorite streaming service, your couch spot? No judgment, just honesty."
Introduction: We have previously pivoted from viewing "mission" as an event (a trip) to viewing it as a lifestyle (posture/everyday).
And we've established what mission is (everyday, messy, local), the next logical step is to discuss how to live it out amidst the obstacles we identified (comfort, culture, redefining success).
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Tools and Culture: Culture of Sharing and Receiving Others, Tools for Safe and Brave Space
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Access’ Mission
We are a church seeking to live life with God in soul, community, and mission.
Mission
The world is not the way it should be. It has been ruined by human sin, but God invites us to join in his redemptive work bringing healing and restoration to our world.
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The Hook: "We talked about how our culture of comfort and wealth blinds us to the need for God. If mission is a lifestyle, it usually requires sacrificing some of that comfort."
Discussion Questions
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Comfort vs. Calling: What is a specific comfort or convenience you hold onto that might be keeping you from engaging more deeply with the people around you?
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Redefining Success: Someone in our last mission meeting asked, "How do we measure success?" If we stop measuring mission by 'conversions' or 'tasks completed,' what metric should we use? (e.g., faithfulness, risk-taking, depth of love).
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Kingdom Building: Someone else mentioned people "building their own kingdoms." How do we spot the difference between building a career/life for security versus building it for mission?
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Prayers
- write out a prayer or two or more and exchange written prayers with another to be praying for another until the next time we meet.
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Engagement
- This week, try to identify one moment where you felt the tension between 'comfort' and 'mission.' Don't feel you have to fix it, just notice it, and bring that story back to the group next week.
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