The Circle Maker Bible Study Participant's Guide: Praying Circles Around Your Biggest Dreams and Greatest Fears
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Bold prayers honor God and God honors bold prayers.
Do you ever sense that there's far more to prayer than what you're experiencing? This four-session video-based Bible study (DVD/digital video sold separately) is for believers who love God with a passion, but have slipped into a spiritual rut. It's time to enter a whole new level of extreme faith...it's time to become a circle maker!
Through the story of Honi the Circle Maker—a man bold enough to draw a circle in the sand and not budge from it until God answered his prayer for his people—bestselling author and pastor Mark Batterson will help you see that who you become is determined by how you pray. Throughout this guide, Batterson:
- Clearly and practically lays out what prayer looks like and how it shapes and changes us.
- Shows you the powerful results and modern-day miracles that come from a courageous prayer life.
- Helps you, your group, and your entire church begin to identify dreams and future miracles to draw prayer circles around.
This Participant Guide provides individual and group activities, between session personal studies, and additional background material that will enhance the experience of the video on The Circle Maker DVD (sold separately).
Sessions include:
1. Becoming a Circle Maker
2. Little People, Big Risks, and Huge Circles
3. Praying Hard and Praying Through
4. Praying is Like Planting
Designed for use with The Circle Maker Video Study (sold separately).
Mark Batterson
Mark Batterson is the lead pastor of National Community Church in Washington, DC. One church with multiple locations, NCC owns and operates Ebenezers Coffeehouse, the Miracle Theatre, and the DC Dream Center. NCC is currently developing a city block into the Capital Turnaround; the 100,000-square-foot space will include an event venue, a child development center, a mixed-use marketplace, and a coworking space. Mark holds a doctor of ministry degree from Regent University and is the New York Times bestselling author of twenty books including The Circle Maker, In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day, Wild Goose Chase, Play the Man, Whisper, and recently released Win the Day. Mark and his wife, Lora, have three children and live on Capitol Hill.
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The Circle Maker Bible Study Participant's Guide - Mark Batterson
Session 1
Becoming a Circle Maker
God loves to make promises. He invites us to draw a circle around those promises and pray until we see them become a reality. God is inviting you and me into the adventure of seeing His dreams come true in this world. This happens as we make the decision to become circle makers.
Introduction
People today love extreme sports!
We live in a world where the boundaries of human ability and capacity continue to be pressed and stretched. People compete in Ironman Triathlons where they swim 2.4 miles, bike 112 miles, and then run a full marathon of 26.2 miles.
Freestyle motorcycle riders used to dream of doing a backflip and landing it. Few dared even try it. That move is now commonplace … riders are expected to do it. So, in 2006, a rider named Travis Pastrana attempted and landed a double backflip on a motorcycle in the X Games. No doubt, someone out there today is trying to figure out how they will land a triple backflip on a motorcycle.
Extreme sports like ice climbing, wingsuit base jumping, kayak skydiving, snocross, and a myriad of other surprising options are cropping up as people look for a new rush of adrenaline and a greater challenge.
Something in the human spirit pushes us to climb higher, drive faster, and push the boundaries. Into this world of risk-taking adventurers God whispers an invitation, Try drawing a prayer circle!
Into the lives of Christians who have become bored with the same old religious practices and routine spiritual lives, the Spirit of God says, Take a risk, draw a circle, and engage your faith at a whole new level.
For believers who love God with a passion, but have slipped into a spiritual rut, it is time to enter a whole new level of extreme faith … it is time to become a circle maker!
At the end of the day, and the end of your life, you will look back and discover that one of the most extreme things you could ever do is draw a circle.
The greatest moments in life are the miraculous moments when human impotence and divine omnipotence intersect — and they intersect when we draw a circle around the impossible situations in our lives and invite God to intervene.
Talk About It
Tell about a time you did something risky or extreme. What moved you to do something adventurous like this?
[Your Response]
Who you become is determined by how you pray. Ultimately, the transcript of your prayers becomes the script of your life.
Video Teaching Notes
As you watch the video teaching segment for session one, use the following outline to record thoughts and reflections that stand out to