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    Soul Detox Bible Study Participant's Guide: Clean Living in a Contaminated World
    Soul Detox Bible Study Participant's Guide: Clean Living in a Contaminated World
    Soul Detox Bible Study Participant's Guide: Clean Living in a Contaminated World
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    Soul Detox Bible Study Participant's Guide: Clean Living in a Contaminated World

    By Craig Groeschel

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    In this five-session small group bible study (DVD/digital video sold separately), pastor and best-selling author Craig Groeschel sheds light on relationships, thoughts, and behaviors that quietly compromise our well-being. Using concise teaching and honest humor, Groeschel provides a source of inspiration and encouragements for a faith-filled lifestyle that will keep you free of spiritual toxins.

    More than an educated, insightful look at the negative aspects of our day-to-day culture, this grace-based experience will challenge you out of complacency into a life of clean, pure, and focused living based on the standard of God’s holiness.

    This participant's guide provides individual and group activities, between-session personal studies, and additional background material that enhances the experience of the video sessions. The Soul Detox curriculum can be used in a variety of ways – as a whole church campaign (adult congregation), adult Sunday school, small group study, or individual Bible study.

    Sessions include:

    1. Lethal Language: Experiencing the Power of Life-Giving Words (11:30)
    2. Scare Pollution: Unlocking the Chokehold of Fear (11:30)
    3. Radioactive Relationships: Loving Unhealthy People without Getting Sick (12:00)
    4. Septic Thoughts: Overcoming Our False Beliefs (13:00)
    5. Germ Warfare: Cleansing Our Lives of Cultural Toxins (12:00)

    Designed for use with the Soul Detox Video Study (sold separately).

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherZondervan
    Release dateApr 10, 2013
    ISBN9780310687528
    Soul Detox Bible Study Participant's Guide: Clean Living in a Contaminated World
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    Craig Groeschel

    Craig Groeschel es el fundador y pastor principal de Life.Church, una de las mayores iglesias del mundo, y el creador de la aplicación bíblica gratuita YouVersion. Autor de quince libros superventas en el New York Times, entre ellos Gana la guerra en tu mente, El poder para cambiar, Lo esencial de un buen líder y Esperanza en la oscuridad. Además, presenta el Pódcast de Liderazgo Craig Groeschel, que ocupa los primeros puestos, y habla anualmente a cientos de miles de líderes de todo el mundo a través de la Red Global de Liderazgo. Craig y su esposa, Amy, viven en Oklahoma. Conecta con Craig en www.craiggroeschel.com.

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      Soul Detox Bible Study Participant's Guide - Craig Groeschel

      SESSION 1

      LETHAL LANGUAGE

      Experiencing the Power of Life-Giving Words

      The tongue is a thermometer; it gives us our spiritual temperature. It is also a thermostat; it regulates our spiritual temperature. Control of the tongue can mean everything.

      RICHARD J. FOSTER, CELEBRATION OF DISCIPLINE

      Welcome

      Welcome to Session 1 of Soul Detox. If this is your first time together as a group, take a moment to introduce yourselves to each other before watching the video. Then let’s get started!

      Video: Lethal Language (12 Minutes)

      Play the video segment for Session 1. As you watch, use the outline below to follow along or to take notes on anything that stands out to you.

      Notes

      The tongue has the power of life and death (Proverbs 18:21a).

      [Your Notes]

      The Bible contrasts life-giving words and toxic words:

      Reckless words pierce like a sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing (Proverbs 12:18 NIV 1984).

      The tongue that brings healing is a tree of life, but a deceitful tongue crushes the spirit (Proverbs 15:4 NIV 1984).

      We must guard our hearts against toxic words (see Proverbs 4:23).

      [Your Notes]

      Truth vs. trash: When people speak words about you, is what they say true? If so, believe it and embrace it. If it’s trash, reject it.

      [Your Notes]

      Every chance you get, speak life-giving words.

      Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up (Ephesians 4:29a).

      [Your Notes]

      Any time you think something positive, say it. Why rob someone of a blessing by keeping a positive statement to yourself?

      [Your Notes]

      Don’t internalize the toxic words that others speak about you. Guard your heart.

      [Your Notes]

      Group Discussion (46 Minutes)

      Take a few minutes to talk about what you just watched.

      1. What part of the teaching had the most impact on you?

      [Your Response]

      Toxic Words

      2. A toxic substance is something that causes serious harm or even death. Toxikon, the Greek origin of the English word toxic, refers to an archer’s bow armed with a poison arrow. The psalmist uses this very image to describe the power of toxic words:

      [Evildoers] sharpen their tongues like swords and aim cruel words like deadly arrows (Psalm 64:3).

      The author of Proverbs draws on a similar image:

      The words of the reckless pierce like swords (Proverbs 12:18a).

      • Those who speak toxic words in these verses are evildoers and the reckless. How would you describe the similarities and differences in how words are used by someone who is an evildoer and someone who is reckless? If you can think of any, use examples — from the news, social media, books, movies, etc. — to describe both.

      [Your Response]

      • Overall, how would you characterize the people whose words have wounded you? As evildoers, as reckless, or as something else?

      [Your Response]

      • At some point in our lives, all of us have spoken words that wound. What thoughts or feelings are you aware of when you consider how the words evildoer and reckless might characterize you?

      [Your Response]

      Guard Your Heart

      3. Toxic words are words that lodge in the heart and cause deep wounds. When we internalize these words, we allow them to distort the truth about who we are — and that impacts everything. The Bible’s familiar wisdom about this comes from Proverbs:

      Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it (Proverbs 4:23).

      In ancient Hebrew thought, the heart referred to more than just the center of emotions. It included the entire inner life of a person¹ — everything we might describe as psychological, spiritual, intellectual, and emotional. To guard your heart, then, is to guard the essence of who God created you to be.

      • What examples come to mind when you think of what it means in practical terms to guard your heart? How have you done this well, or how have you witnessed someone you know doing this well?

      [Your Response]

      • How would you describe the differences between guarding your heart and being overly self-protective in your relationships?

      [Your Response]

      4. The verses that follow Proverbs 4:23 elaborate on it by listing specific behaviors that guard the heart:

      Keep your mouth free of perversity; keep corrupt talk far from your lips. Let your eyes look straight ahead; fix your gaze directly before you.

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