Get Out of Your Head Bible Study Leader's Guide: A Study in Philippians

By Jennie Allen

Stopping the spiral of toxic thoughts.

In Get Out of Your Head, a six-session video-based Bible study, Jennie inspires and equips us to transform our emotions, our outlook, and even our circumstances by taking control of our thoughts. Our enemy is determined to get in our heads to make us feel helpless, overwhelmed, and incapable of making a difference for the kingdom of God. But when we submit our minds to Christ, the promises of goodness of God flood our lives in remarkable ways.

It starts in your head. And from there, the possibilities are endless.

This guide serves as a tool to prepare you in leading this Get Out of Your Head study and to encourage you along the way. It helps you as the leader to effectively point your group to the overarching theme of each lesson and point them to the themes of each study.

This Get Out of Your Head Leader’s Guide includes:

• Session-by-session helps to guide your group through the study.
• Walk-through for using each piece of the study: Videos, Study Guide, and Conversation Card Deck.
• The vision for Get Out of Your Head.
• Tips for leading your group, and much more.

This guide is designed for use with the Get Out of Your Head Video Study (9780310116394), sold separately. Streaming video, study guide, and conversation cards also available.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson
• Release date: Apr 7, 2020
• ISBN: 9780310122432

Jennie Allen

Jennie Allen is the founder and visionary of IF:Gathering as well as the New York Times bestselling author of Get Out of Your Head, Made for This, Anything, and Nothing to Prove. A frequent speaker at national events and conferences, she is a passionate leader, following God's call on her life to catalyze a generation to live what they believe. Jennie earned a master's in biblical studies from Dallas Theological Seminary. She and her husband, Zac, have four children.

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INTRODUCTION

Leaders,

I am excited to partner with you in your efforts to pour into the lives of women! I pray that these few short pages will help to equip and prepare you to lead this study. Many of you may have led plenty of groups in the past, or perhaps this is the first you’ve led. Whichever the case, this is a spiritual calling and you are entering spiritual places with these women—and spiritual callings and places need spiritual power.

My husband, Zac, always says, Changed lives change lives. If you are not first aware of your own need for life change, the women around you won’t see their need. If you allow God into the inner struggles of your heart, the women following you will be much more likely to let Him into theirs. These women do not need to see bright and shiny, perfectly poised people; they need to see people who are a mess and daily dependent on God for their hope and strength.

The apostle Paul actually believed God and he lived like it. And I think as a generation of women, we are longing for the same lives. We want to have strong minds and thoughts—and to believe God is real and to live like it.

This is not a study for people wanting to keep the status quo. This study messes with you because it shows us how to change our thought patterns and live with freedom from the emotional spirals that suck us down. I want a life like Paul’s, who had the mind of Christ. I want to run like he did with a clear, disciplined mind, and ultimately with peace.

Together, we can do this. We can and we will encourage one another, hold each other accountable, and break into each other’s spirals to keep our focus individually and collectively on Jesus. That is where we will find true freedom. Minds set free come from minds set on Him. We are not bound by this world and we do have power! Let’s take control of our minds and stop the