Companion Meetings

Companion Meeting Week 4 #1

Consider the following questions in your group:

• What does it mean for man to be “corporate?” What verses in the Bible support this?
• Practice explaining the expression “a corporate man,” as if you were helping a friend or classmate to understand this matter.
• What is the connection between the corporate man that God desires and the church?
• What does it mean for the church to be “the assembly of God’s called-out ones?” What verses support your answer?
• Explain how the church is the “house (household) of God?” (Use verses to support you answer.)

Companion Meeting Week 3 #2

Consider the following questions in your group:

• What is the tree of life? Where is this tree found in the Bible?
• How is this tree available to us and how do we take of this tree?
• What is the river of life? Where does the Bible reveal such a river?
• Where does this river begin and how has this river reached us and how do we drink of this river?
• Bonus: why does God refer to the tree of life and river of life all over the Bible?

Companion Meeting Week 3 #1

Consider the following questions in your group:

• After creating man as a vessel, according to God, what is the most important thing for this man? Where in the Bible do we see this? Compare this to what is important to us.
• Why is life so important to God, God’s purpose, and man? What kinds of life are there in the Bible and what will accomplish God’s purpose? Try to support your response with verses.
• How do we practically receive His life? Use verses and your own experience to help one another receive more.
• Share with each other what this life has done in you and for you.

Week 2, Second Companion Meeting

Consider the following questions in your group:

(Note: you may have to look ahead in this week’s material for the answers.)

• What does it mean that God planted “eternity” in our heart? What verse in the Bible mentions this?
• What are the three functions of the spirit? (What verses in the Bible confirm this?)
• Explain the three functions of the spirit as if you were helping  a classmate/friend to understand them.
• What is the sense of life and peace?

Week 2, First Companion Meeting

Consider the following questions in your group:

• Where can we see in the Bible that man was created as a vessel to contain God? (What verses confirm this?)
• Explain how the analogy of the “hand in the glove” relates to man as a vessel containing God?
• Consider some verses that indicate that God desired man to contain Him as life? (In both the Old and New Testament.)
• What does it mean that man is a three-part vessel? What are the three parts? Which verses mention this?

Week 1, Second Companion Meeting

Consider the following questions in your group:

• What is sonship in the Bible? (What verses mention this matter?)
• What does it mean that we were chosen by God the Father to be holy? (What does it mean to be holy?)
• What are some practical ways we can be sanctified and saturated with God? (Support answers with verses)
• What does it mean to be predestinated? (What does this indicate?)
• How do we know that we have the divine life? (What verses indicate this?)
• What is the central thought of the revelation in the New Testament? (Consider some supporting verses.)
• What verses reveal that as believers God is now our Father?
• What can we do to allow the Lord to spread from our spirit to the other parts of our being?

Week 1, First Companion Meeting

Consider the following questions in your group:

• Where can we see in the Bible that God has a desire in His heart? (What verses specifically?)
• What is this desire? (Where can this be seen in the Bible?)
• Why did God create man in His image?
• What does it mean that man was made in the image of God?
• What does it mean for man to “have dominion?”
• Why can God’s purpose only be carried out by His economy? (What is God’s economy?)