Providential Relationships (Session 3)

SERMON DATE: 10/11/2015

QUESTIONS:

Looking back, are there people you feel God providentially brought into your life at crucial times? Who? How did God use them?
Looking back is there a time when you feel God brought someone across your path that could have helped you, but you resisted the relationship?
Are there those in your circle of relationships that would say YOU are someone God providentially dropped into their lives?

Read Proverbs 13:20. Biblically speaking, a fool is someone who knows the difference between right and wrong but doesn’t care. A wise person is one who knows the difference and seeks to do what is right. Fools see life as disconnected. They live as if today’s decisions will have no impact on tomorrow. A wise person understands that life is connected and that today’s decisions have the potential to create tomorrow’s reality.

4. What is the promise to those who “walk” with the wise?

5. What is the consequence of being a companion of fools?

6. Based on your experiences, why do you think Solomon highlights what a person becomes (i.e. “wise”) in the first half of the verse, while he highlights what will happen (i.e. “suffering harm”) in the second half?

7. Why didn’t he say, “He who walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools becomes a fool”?

8. At the end of his message, Andy made a statement that he has used for years when teaching students: “Your friends will determine the direction and quality of your life.”