{"id":5331,"date":"2022-03-18T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nlec.org.au\/english\/?p=5331"},"modified":"2022-05-12T14:18:22","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T04:18:22","slug":"week-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nlec.org.au\/english\/week-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 1 &#8211; John 6:26-29; John 6:41-51; John 6:66-69"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3>Receive (20 mins):<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Open your time in prayer. Ask the Holy Spirit to speak to you.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this devotion on Psalm 1 (The reading is included. Follow along in your Bible.) <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/0KuD81k57ZdUOj4Rb9d2kj?si=4d11adf5806240a5\">https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/0KuD81k57ZdUOj4Rb9d2kj?si=4d11adf5806240a5<\/a><br \/><br \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Spend some time in personal reflection and prayer. (5 mins)<\/li>\n<li>Share with the group what God has been speaking to you. Is there a challenge for you? Have you been impressed with a particular characteristic of God? (10 mins).<\/li>\n<li>Pray together, responding to what God has been showing you in this Psalm. (5 mins)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Read (20 mins):<\/h3>\n<p>This is a long passage (John 6:25-71). We will focus our time on 3 portions: John 6:26-29; John 6:41-51; John 6:66-69<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read vv 26-29<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What do you most often seek\/ask for when you come to God? In what ways are you seeking after \u201cfood that spoils\u201d?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Read vv 41-51<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The disciples grumbled at Jesus\u2019 response. What do you think is at the root of a grumbling response to Jesus? In what areas of your life are you unsatisfied with Jesus\u2019 response?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Read vv 66-69<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Have you had times in your life when you have struggled to keep following Jesus? Are you going through one of those times now? How does this passage encourage you to keep following Jesus?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Respond (20 mins):<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Spend a few minutes in personal reflection. What is the Holy Spirit impressing on your heart? (3 mins)<\/li>\n<li>Take time to share how the Holy Spirit is challenging you. How can you be accountable to each other? Consider keeping a record for the purposes of prayer and accountability. (12 mins)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Pray for each other. (5 mins)<\/h3>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discipleship"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nlec.org.au\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nlec.org.au\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nlec.org.au\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nlec.org.au\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nlec.org.au\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5331"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nlec.org.au\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5546,"href":"https:\/\/nlec.org.au\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5331\/revisions\/5546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nlec.org.au\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nlec.org.au\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nlec.org.au\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}