Table Group Guide

Text: Exodus 40:34-38

Big idea: God is a guide, not a map.

Table Talk: 

• What’s a word you always mispronounce or misspell? 
• What are you thankful for? What’s a challenge you’re facing? 
• How has it been going with fishing and following? 

Following = taking steps of faith.

Fishing = sharing the love of Jesus with others. 

• Worship God together. Recommended song: I Speak Jesus by Charity Gayle. 

Context for the passage: The Tabernacle where the Israelites are able to meet with God is finally complete. But at the grand opening, Moses can’t enter because of God’s glory- they will need to wait yet again. This is why Leviticus is written as a guide for the priests to learn how to meet with a holy God. 

Discover what God is saying to you. (⅓ of meeting)
Read Exodus 40:34-38

• What do you learn about following God from this passage?
• God doesn’t give the Israelites a map to the Promised Land, but guides them. Why?
• What ways has God guided you in the past, even if things didn’t turn out as expected? 
• It would be understandable if Moses was disappointed that he couldn’t enter the Tabernacle to meet with God as expected. How do you respond to disappointment?
• What lessons have you learned when you had to wait on God? 

Go do it (⅓ of meeting) 

• Take some time to ask God for guidance in a specific area of your life. 
• Make an “I will …” statement and share it with everyone. 
• Pair up and pray for each other to experience victory over that area.