inside 1 control - Going Beyond Ministries
control1 inside D I S C U S S I O N G U I D E • 1 Corinthians 11:1-3 1. What feelings do the words submission and control conjure up for you?
2. What are some areas where you feel a compulsion to control when you are supposed to yield?
3. The need to control is often rooted in fear. What fears cause you to desire control?
4. Why do you think some of us feel more compelled than others to always be in control?
5. Why do we so often fight being under the control or authority of someone?
inside 2 6. Submission to earthly authority is often an indicator of how we will submit to the Lord. What does your track record reveal?
7. If you are single, assess your relationship to those in authority over you. Do you follow them willingly? cheerfully? In your job or school, how does this apply?
8. If you are married, in what cases do you think a wife is not to submit to the leadership of her husband?
9. In what relationships do you need to relax and let someone else lead?
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10. What may happen (good or bad) if you let someone else lead? What may happen (good or bad) if you refuse to let someone else lead?
11. How do you need to relinquish control of your relationship to God so He can steer instead of you?
12. What divinely given responsibilities are you neglecting because you are too busy controlling responsibilities He hasn’t called you to?
2. What are some areas where you feel a compulsion to control when you are supposed to yield?
3. The need to control is often rooted in fear. What fears cause you to desire control?
4. Why do you think some of us feel more compelled than others to always be in control?
5. Why do we so often fight being under the control or authority of someone?
inside 2 6. Submission to earthly authority is often an indicator of how we will submit to the Lord. What does your track record reveal?
7. If you are single, assess your relationship to those in authority over you. Do you follow them willingly? cheerfully? In your job or school, how does this apply?
8. If you are married, in what cases do you think a wife is not to submit to the leadership of her husband?
9. In what relationships do you need to relax and let someone else lead?
inside 3
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10. What may happen (good or bad) if you let someone else lead? What may happen (good or bad) if you refuse to let someone else lead?
11. How do you need to relinquish control of your relationship to God so He can steer instead of you?
12. What divinely given responsibilities are you neglecting because you are too busy controlling responsibilities He hasn’t called you to?
