Sermon Notes:
1. Pride deafens us to wise advice.
2. Pride blinds us to our sin.
3. Pride blocks us from the relationships we need.
4. By his grace, for our own good, God may break our pride.
Follow up questions from Sunday:
Icebreaker: What’s the best Christmas present you can remember receiving as a child? How old were you when giving became more important to you than getting?
1. Read Prov15:31-33. How good are you at taking advice? Do you have people in your life who have the freedom to call you out when you’re off track?
2. Read Prov 8:13. Pride allows us to protect and defend our right to sin. Why is it hard, in today’s world, to humble yourself and live out God’s values?
3. Read Matt 11:29. What can we learn from Jesus about humility? How does his humility connect us to him?
4. Read Heb 12:5-11. Do we look at hardship this way, most of the time? Share a time when God used difficult times to produce a harvest of peace and righteousness in your life.
5. Read Prov 21:24. Why is anger sometimes a sign of arrogance? Share a time when you were angry and later realized your pride had been hurt.
6. Read James 4:13-17. James scolds the church in Jerusalem for having too much confidence in their own plans. What are some ways you can humble yourself before God as you look ahead to 2018?