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SPIRITUAL MAPPING EXERCISE AS A GROUP

As a leader, we suggest leading a person or group of people through these four questions. The person(s) simply needs time to write on a blank piece of paper their answers to these four questions. Give time & space to go slowly, encouraging people to not be in a hurry, yet tell them to not be-labor their responses.

Answer these 4 questions as they apply to you today- THIS PRESENT MOMENT!

Q1: What are the major questions (or question) you are asking in this season of your life?

List those that come to mind without a lot of laboring

Q2: What are the core truths that you are clinging to today?

Again, list those that come to mind easily

Q3: Take a moment here. Sit before God quietly. Welcome Him into what you’ve just written (above). Invite the Holy Spirit to speak. Then, after a brief time in silence, look carefully at your answers to Q1 & Q2. At first glance, there may not seem to be anything in common between your two sets of answers, but more than likely, there is an intersection where your major questions and core truths meet. Take note of that intersection and when you’re ready… in one sentence, a short phrase, or a visual picture, Describe the place you’re standing in right now?

Examples: Close by with His eyes looking into mine, in the distance staring away from me? Behind me beckoning me to take a step? Right alongside, holding my hand. A million miles away?

Q4: As you look at your answer to Q3, in one sentence, a short phrase, or visual picture, Tell me where Jesus is in this place you’re standing today…and, if you can, how would you describe Him?

Examples: Close by with His eyes looking into mine, in the distance staring away from me? Behind me beckoning me to take a step? Right alongside, holding my hand. A million miles away?)

After those 4 questions have your group pause and review their answers before sharing with one another.

Final Discussion Question:

Let’s talk openly about what seems to be shimmering (standing out) right now for you. Are you surprised by anything you’ve written? What’s particularly interesting? How do you feel as you read your answers to question 3 and question 4?

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