3 Lent - "Branching Out" - Joshua 1:1-11

1. Can you think of a time when you faced a task that was overwhelming? What was it? What did you do?
2. How do you think Joshua was feeling? Excited? Afraid? Confident? Unprepared? How would you have felt?
3. V. 1-4. Father Mike talked about how Joshua was challenged to embrace his destiny as the leader of Israel. How does God encourage him to do this?
4. Joshua faced the Jordan River. What sort of obstacles do you face?
5. V. 5-6. What does God ask Joshua to do? What does God promise in return?
6. V. 7-9. What is the connection between obedience to God's commandments and success? Why would God feel it necessary to point this out to Joshua? Why do we need to hear it today?
7. V. 10-11. God tells Joshua to rally his leadership and to get moving. What is keeping you from getting going toward what He has for you? Who has He sent you to help you?
8. What about this passage applies to St. Andrew's? to your life right now? How can this group support you in the ways God is asking you to branch out?