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You Belong Here

Key Verses: Romans 12:10, 1 Timothy 3:2

Take-Away Thoughts: Everyone at church. Shame is when others belong.

Large Group:

Tells a Story

1. The story tell sometimes does .

2. God has the to tell a story.

Five Minutes or Less

3. A first-time of any church event will decide to come in five-minutes or less.

4. Every Sunday there are people that leave feeling like they got .

5. Every that comes to church, is a walking , and they all have something going on in their lives.

You Belong Here

6. Do make feel like they ?

7.  As soon as we a guest, we should be trying show that they are so much by us that it makes them feel like they belong.    

8. A person that is has the ability to anything into a home. is the to make others feel that they belong.

Internal bleeding

9. People may look on the , but on the they may be in need of .

10. We get to people , and when people they start to internally.

Mephibosheth

Reference: 2 Samuel 4:4, 9:5-8

Week 2 Video: Mephibosheth

11. Mephibosheth’s grandfather was a man named , the first king of .

12. Israel is in love with this kid named , but hates and the attention he’s getting.

13. had a son named , and unlike his father, loved like a brother.

14. had a son named Mephibosheth, and he grew up with his grandfather telling him how evil and dangerous this traitor named was.

2 Samuel 9:7

15. We all carry around this in our lives that we could never in the of God

16. takes our and He it into .

Our role in the story:

You have the to shatter and change the trajectory of someone’s life, and you can do it with just three beautiful words:

You belong here.

Small Group Questions:

1. What’s the most awkward situation you’ve ever been in?

2. What does honor and hospitality mean to you? What does it look like?

3. Have you ever been to a place where you felt like you didn’t belong? Explain.

4. What did you think of the internal bleeding illustration?

5. How can we make people feel that they belong here even more?

6. In what ways do you feel you relate to Mephibosheth?