Proverbs
Friendship
Series Big Idea: Wisdom is skill in the art of godly living.
Community Group
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Community Group Leaders: Feel free to select questions that you think would best benefit
your group.
POSSIBLE ICEBREAKER: (see leader handbook for more options)
Who was your first friend? Describe your friendship.
OPENING THE DISCUSSION: This week’s big Idea: A friend always lets you in, and never lets
you down.
What was one thing that stood out to you in this weekend’s message?
Describe an ideal friend?
What, specifically, has brought about the closest friendships in your life?
DIGGING DEEPER: Read John 15:11-13
What characteristics of true friendship are found in these verses?
How does Jesus referring to you as a friend change the way you view friendship?
APPLYING THE MESSAGE:
What relationships in your life could benefit from you being more open and vulnerable?
In what ways can you show better constancy, carefulness, candor, and council in your
friendships with others? In what ways do you hope others will show these attributes with you?
PRAYER TIME
We will encourage you every week to ask each other how you can pray for each other today
and through the week. Emphasize the “each other” direction of your prayer time together to help
everyone focus on praying for growth and application of truth in their own lives. Other prayer
requests can be shared but encourage those prayer requests to be shared during the week so
they don’t consume the time you have to pray for each other. For example: Ask, “how can we
pray for each other tonight?” instead of, “are there any prayer requests?”
Splitting between men and women typically make the prayer time more effective