Recreation
1. What was "fun" for you as a child? How about now?
2. Do you regularly set aside time to do fun activities and take vacations? When was your last vacation, and what did you do?
3. When you do set aside time for fun...
a) Do you experience a sense of guilt because you know there is work to be done?
b) Do you feel fully present, or is your mind still distracted? What can you do to be proactive about limiting those distractions?
a) Do you experience a sense of guilt because you know there is work to be done?
b) Do you feel fully present, or is your mind still distracted? What can you do to be proactive about limiting those distractions?
4. Have you ever done a recreational activity so much that it stopped being fun? If so, what happened?
5. What activities could you plan to do routinely that would give you life-giving enjoyment without sacrificing the work that gives your life purpose?
Wrapping Up...
Sometime this week, read Chapter 8 about RECREATION from Mitch Harrison's book, "Running On Full."
Pray as a group, or silently, that God would help you balance "fun & work" in your life, leading you to functioning at an 8 more regularly.
Small Groups Are Important!
New Hope Community Church encourages everyone to participate regularly in a small group. The importance is for you to have accountability to others, as well as a place where you feel you belong and are cared for. Getting to this place requires groups to spend frequent and consistent time together, getting to know one another as you walk together through life. As for any book study like this one, what is important is that you engage in conversation. Where God leads the discussion is up to him, so do not feel pressure to have every person answer every question, nor to feel rushed to get through all the questions. Allow this to simply start/guide the discussion, and then let it progress from there. Sunday messages were connected to each chapter from the Disobedient God book, and reading along each week could enhance the experience, but these questions can still be used even without reading the book or even hearing the message. Thanks for taking this step.