Community Group Questions

3.29.26

Practice of Prayer: being with God

1. What stirred in you most from this message?
Was there a phrase, image, or idea (Mother Teresa’s story, “beholding,” being “unveiled,” etc.) that stayed with you? Why do you think that resonated?

2. How would you describe your current experience of prayer?
Which of the “dimensions” feels most natural to you right now—

talking to God
talking with God
listening to God
or being with God?

Which one feels most unfamiliar or uncomfortable?

3. The message suggests that “you are what your mind looks at.” What do you find yourself regularly ‘contemplating’ in everyday life?
How do you see that shaping your heart, your emotions, or your relationships?

4. When you hear the invitation to simply be with God—to sit in silence, to “look at Him as He looks at you in love”—what is your honest reaction?
Does that feel inviting, confusing, frustrating, intimidating… something else?
Why do you think that is?

5. Of the three movements of contemplative prayer—looking, yielding, resting—which one do you most sense God inviting you into right now?
What might that look like in a real, practical way in your daily life this week?

6. Let’s practice together: take 2–3 minutes of silence as a group.