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We believe spiritual growth happens best in community. That’s why we’ve created weekly discussion content to help your Group dive deeper into each message, ask meaningful questions, and walk out what you’re learning together.
October 4, 2026: Group Check-In
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Check-in and see how everyone is doing this week.
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Open up in prayer.
Scripture Reading
This mystery is that through the gospel the Gentiles are heirs together with Israel, members together of one body, and sharers together in the promise in Christ Jesus.I became a servant of this gospel by the gift of God’s grace given me through the working of his power. Although I am less than the least of all the Lord’s people, this grace was given me: to preach to the Gentiles the boundless riches of Christ, and to make plain to everyone the administration of this mystery, which for ages past was kept hidden in God, who created all things. His intent was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms, according to his eternal purpose that he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord. In him and through faith in him we may approach God with freedom and confidence. I ask you, therefore, not to be discouraged because of my sufferings for you, which are your glory.For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.
The Apostle Paul • Ephesians 3:6-21 NIV
Big Ideas from the Message
- The desire for “more” is built into all of us, and companies know it well enough to make getting more as seamless as possible.
- Tom Brady, after winning three Super Bowl rings, said “it’s gotta be more than this.” He won four more and still wasn’t finished chasing.
- A glimpse of “more” doesn’t satisfy the hunger. It highlights what’s missing and sends us either chasing or settling.
- Chasing and settling both assume the same thing: that “more” is primarily about getting something we don’t have.
- Paul’s letter flips that assumption. He prays for the Ephesians, a persecuted, struggling community, and never once prays their circumstances would simply get easier.
- Paul’s prayer in Ephesians 3:16–19 asks for inner strength, Christ dwelling in their hearts, being rooted in love, and being filled with the fullness of God.
- Paul’s answer to our hunger for more isn’t simply more from Jesus. It’s more of Jesus.
- God’s power in us was never meant to stop with us. Ephesians 3:21 ties that power directly to glory “in the church,” not just in an individual life.
- Before asking God for more around you, Gavin suggests asking for more within you and through you.
- The ache behind “there’s got to be more” isn’t wrong. It’s just been pointed at the wrong thing.
Discussion Questions
- Tom Brady, after winning his third Super Bowl, said “it’s gotta be more than this.” He went on to win four more rings and still asked the same question. Where have you experienced getting what you wanted and finding the hunger still there?
- We tend to respond to the fading of a “glimpse of more” by either chasing it or settling for less. Which of those two is more your default response? What does that look like in your life right now?
- Read Ephesians 3:14–19. Paul’s prayer for the Ephesians isn’t for easier circumstances, but for inner strength, Christ dwelling in their hearts, and being rooted in love. If you prayed that prayer for yourself this week, what would change?
- Paul’s answer to our hunger for more is not simply more from Jesus. It’s more of Jesus. What’s the practical difference between those two for you personally?
- Read Ephesians 3:20–21. Paul says God’s power works “within us,” not just for us, and that the result is glory “in the church.” How does that reframe the purpose of God’s power in your life, beyond your own comfort or improvement?
- Gavin offered a few reframed prayers:
- “God, change my spouse.” → “God, what needs changing in me?”
- “God, get me out of this.” → “God, what do you want to form in me while I’m here?”
Which of those hits closest to home for you right now?
