GSCC Small Group December 5^th, 2006

- Dr. Friest is visiting us Jan 5-7, 2007. His class title is: "Trusting God in the Untrustworthy World". Pray for people to prepare hearts to come and to learn from the precious teaching from Dr. Friest.

- Next Sunday, Dec. 10th, we will have a Winter Releif outing. After service, you are invited to stay for lunch and prepare for sandwiches and visit some homeless parks in San Jose. Pray for compassion to grow in this church.

- Please pray and invite friends to attend Christmas service on Dec. 24th. We will

have skits, testimonies, music, message, and food to welcome them.

- Baby shower for Janice will be held at 2:30pm on December 23rd, at GSCC Office.

Ephesians 4:1-6

Title “Unity”.

1 As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. 2 Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. 3 Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. 4 There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to one hope when you were called— 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism; 6 one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.

1. Read verse 2 and reflect on these words. How does your recent behavior compare to them?

2. Verse 3. How do we keep unity? At all cost avoid confrontation? Stay loose in principles? How do the virtues in verse 2 help maintain unity?

3. There is on body. What is the one body? Do you think the Jewish Christian church and Greek Christian church easy to get along in the first century? In what way can they unite?

4. One Lord. When we serve in church, how important is it for us to serve the one Lord? Name a few possible other lords.

5. One baptism. Read 1 Corinthians 1:10-13. In whose name we are baptized? Why do we easily follow people rather than follow Jesus?