GROUP GUIDE
Leading a group through these questions? Here’s a simple guide for 1.5-2 hour GROUP meeting.
Welcome and Opening Prayer. (5 minutes)
Read the passage aloud. (5 minutes)
Guide the group through the questions. (30-60 minutes)
Take time to share prayer requests and pray for each other. (15-30 minutes)
TEACHING RECAP
Summary: What do you really want, and how far are you willing to go to get it? Our desires can lead us toward life or quietly pull us away from it, especially when comparison gets a grip on our hearts. If you’ve ever found yourself wishing for someone else’s life, circumstances, or blessings—has that ever actually satisfied you? Join in as we look for a better way to live with desire, joy, and contentment.
Main Points:
1. The Ten Words begin and end in the heart.
2. God gives us desires and shows us how to fill them.
3. Comparison is a simple way to start wanting the wrong things.
4. Only God can satisfy our longings and make us content.
On-Ramps:
Pursue Jesus so you can experience joy, life, and contentment.
Stop practicing comparison, because it trains your heart to be unsatisfied.
Replace selfishness with gratitude and generosity.
Discussion
What has stood out to you from this 10 Words series? How have you been challenged or encouraged by it?
How is the first commandment the key to obeying the tenth commandment?
What do you find yourself wanting? How are these desires evidenced by the things you are pursuing in your life? How are they the same or different than the desires of someone living for this world rather than Jesus?
What part does the practice of comparison seem to play in our culture? What part does it play in your life?
What do you need to reorder in your life so that your number one pursuit is Jesus?
As we wrap up this series, discuss how your heart responds when you consider that God has a right on your life and is allowed to tell you how you live.
How do you want to respond to the call to replace selfishness and comparison with gratitude and generosity in your daily life?
PRAYER
How can we pray for you as a group?
Next week: Luke 2:1-7
