There’s An APP for That … Series
Life Group Lesson 1: Patience / January 30, 2011
Do you use your mobile phone too much, hardly ever, or just right?
What is the funniest thing you ever saw someone do because they were too busy talking on their phone?
Do you own a smart phone? If so what is your favorite app? Why?
Explain what a smart phone and app is. Smart phones have apps (applications) that can help you with just about anything you do or want to know. The problem is that we have not found apps on our phones that help us be better people. I have not found an app on my phone that will help me live with joy, peace, kindness, or patience. READ Galatians 5:1, 16, 22-25
The Bible is a place you can go to find all the apps you need to live your life.
What are the fruit of the Spirit?
How do the help us be better Christians (better people)?
What do these verses say that the Holy Spirit will do for us?
Have you ever experienced the Spirit guiding you? Explain.
How has being a Christian helped you be more patient?
Why is it easier to be patient with a circumstance rather than with people?
PATIENCE in this verse is the word “Makrothumia”. It means “to be slow to anger with someone, or simply to wait and be patient with someone. To be patient here means, don’t be ready to attack someone when you don’t get your way.
What do you do to be patient when someone repeatedly offends or bothers you?
Read 2 Peter 3:9.
In Scripture we learn that God is “slow to anger and abounding in love.” God is intentionally patient with us. Why?
Possible answers: Because His goal is to save us, to teach us to change our lives, to repent. God is not just waiting around for us, He is working on us, changing us so that we can grow in His love and be more like Him.
How does God’s patience with you inspire you to be more patient with others?
Where plan practice godly patience this week?
Close in prayer.
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