We’re so grateful for this collection of Spirit-filled leaders helping us cultivate the community life of Trinity Church. As we step into this new adventure of intentional discipleship, with regular gatherings in your homes, we want to equip you to host and serve your Groups well. So each week we will be providing you with some suggested content for your time together, as well as some key dates and details about what’s going on in the wider church, to be shared with those you’re seeing.

This ‘hub’ is a dedicated web page for you, as leaders, and won’t be accessible to the rest of the congregation. Come back here each week for all the information you need. And please know our gratitude and our prayers for you as you partner with us in this kingdom work. Thank you.

Discipleship Groups will include three core practices: 

  • Eat - share a meal together in the presence of Jesus.

  • Share - share about our lives and around Scripture

  • Pray - for each other, our communities, and the wider world

More information on these practises and liturgy for meals can be found in our leaders’ handbook, and further down the webpage.

LEADERS’ HANDBOOK

Access the leaders handbook to read about what it means to be a group leader, FAQs and more here, including the first four weeks of share content.

EAT

As you eat together in the presence of the living Jesus, we encourage you to re-centre your hearts using a piece of liturgy. This is an opportunity to remember that Jesus is in the midst of our eating and conversation, and that it is because of his death and resurrection that each member is welcome at the table.

Participatory sections are in bold. Each stanza or verse could have a different reader.

  • On the night he was betrayed, at supper with his friends, Jesus broke bread and shared a cup.

    As we share this meal, we do it in remembrance of him.

    Come, Holy Spirit.

    Come, Holy Spirit.

    Amen.

  • Come to this table

    All who are hungry

    All you who thirst for more

    The broken and the healing

    The mourning and the joyful

    Join as family and friends

    Heavenly Father, we want to meet with you

    Heavenly Father, we want to meet with you


    Thank you for the gifts of friendship, kinship and belonging

    The warm glow of affection and the joy that we share

    Let our words and actions be of love,

    Woven into the fabric of this time as you abide among us

    Our closest friend and advocate

    King Jesus, we rejoice in your presence

    King Jesus, we rejoice in your presence


    As we eat and drink together, we are reminded of your sacrifice

    Bread and wine, Body and Blood

    Just as you shared a meal with your friends, we share this meal

    In grateful remembrance of Calvary

    And in celebration of an empty grave

    Come Holy Spirit, we welcome you

    Come Holy Spirit, we welcome you

  • “The Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread, 24 and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, “This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me.” 25 In the same way, after supper he took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood; do this, whenever you drink it, in remembrance of me.” 26 For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes. (1 Cor 11:23b-26)

    Father, we do this in remembrance of him.

    Father, we do this in remembrance of him.


    Jesus says “For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.” (Matt 18:20)

    Jesus, we gather in your name. Be with us.

    Jesus, we gather in your name. Be with us.

SHARE

Each week the Community Life team will produce some content to help you lead the share portion of your group time. We suggest rotating through the themes of discipleship, family and mission to help foster well-rounded growth in the dynamic of the group, and in each member’s walk with Jesus.

This content is a guide intended to spark conversation - you are so welcome to follow the lead of the Spirit if He takes you elsewhere.

  • For your discipleship weeks, you could base your discussions on the sermon, or do Bread together. Suggestions for both are below.

    WC 17th FEBRUARY 2025

    Sermon Summary: This week Amy continued our series on the Lord’s Prayer with a focus on Matthew 6.12 - ‘As we forgive those who sin against us.’

    Why does Jesus wasn’t us to forgive people that have wronged us? Because he wants us to live in freedom. Forgiveness is one of the greatest gifts that we have been given. It affects our physical, mental and spiritual wellbeing.

    In Genesis 50, Joseph has the perfect opportunity to take revenge on his brothers who sold him into slavery. However, instead of revenge, Jospeh chose to forgive. He was able to do so because:

    1. He knew his place before God (v19). If he clung to unforgiveness then he would be setting himself as the judge, which is God’s place.
    2. Joseph was confident of God’s sovereignty (v20). Through everything that had happened to him, Joseph could see that God was working through it for his good. God’s goodness is more powerful than the evil done to us and when we forgive God can use the circumstance for our good.
    3. Joseph recognised his legacy (v20). There is a blessing available to others, and future generations, if we can learn to forgive.

    Understanding that forgiveness is often complex and can be really difficult, Amy gave us four important steps that can help us grow towards forgiving others:

    1. Tell the story. Find a trusted person and tell them what’s going on and how you feel.
    2. Name the hurt. Don’t pretend that the hurt didn’t happen. This is often the step that we can rush on from too quickly as it feels so uncomfortable.
    3. Granting forgiveness from a place of shared humanity. Acknowledge that we all have the ability to be hurt and hurt others.
    4. Release and reconcile. As we forgive someone for hurting us the final step is to release them into Gods best and pray that God would bless them.

    Questions to consider:
    1. Is there anyone with whom you are holding onto unforgiveness?
    2. What might it look like for you to start the journey towards forgiveness?
    3. If you find that you are stuck in carrying unforgiveness, could asking the Soul Care team at Trinity be a good idea?

    Practice: Ask the Holy Spirit to reveal if there is anyone who you need to forgive.

    BREAD

    Questions

    1. Be still: spend some time together in silence to centre on God

    2. Read one or all of the passages

    3. Encounter: what verse(s) stood out to you?

    4. Apply: how does this inform how you live your life?

    5. Devote: pray about what you have shared.

    BREAD journals are available to buy here, and the pdf version can be accessed here.

    WC 17th FEBRUARY 2025: Bread Devotional

    John 17:1-5 

    Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. (v3)

    Encounter: As we begin John 17, we come to Jesus' most extensive recorded prayer. Knowing he was about to be arrested by Roman soldiers and be crucified, he prays that God would be glorified in his life and in what was about to occur.

    As he prays, he's bringing clarity around the meaning of eternal life: 'Now this is eternal life: that they know you.' We might think eternal life is about living forever, streets of gold, perfect peace and no more pain. But Jesus reveals that it’s not just a future destination, but a relationship. Eternal life begins the moment we put our trust in Jesus. 

    Earlier, in John 14:6, Jesus says, ‘I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me’. Many people know about God, but through Jesus we can truly know God: like a child knows their mother or father, or as a friend knows a friend. Imagine knowing God like you know your best friend! You probably know what they like to do for fun, what gets them flowing in a conversation, where they love to hang out, and what moves their heart. That's the 'knowing' Jesus is talking about. 

    This kind of relationship changes everything. When we truly know God, we trust him, obey him, find our joy in his presence. We don’t have to wait until Heaven to experience the abundant life Jesus offers. It is available now, as we seek him through our prayers, worship, faith and as we align ourselves to his desires. Eternal life begins now and extends far beyond this earthly one.

    Apply: Today as we spend time in our reading, prayer, communion or a walk with God, ask him to reveal more of his character, what he loves and what moves his heart. 

  • WC 17th February 2025

    Conversation Prompt: What do you like to listen to on a long journey?

    WC 10th February 2025

    Conversation Prompt: What are you grateful for this week?

    WC 3rd February 2025

    Conversation Prompt: What is the most important relationship in your life?

    WC 27th JANUARY 2025

    Conversation Prompt: When was the last time you cried laughing?

  • WC 10th February 2025

    Conversation Prompt: As we confess our sins and repent, returning to our first love, how might God want to show that love to the world around us?

    WC 3rd February 2025

    Conversation Prompt: Who has God placed in your life who you could show his love to? Spend some time praying together for them and ask God to show you if there is any way to practically demonstrate his love.

    WC 27th JANUARY 2025

    Conversation Prompt: Who led you to Jesus? Discuss what mission has looked like in your lives.

PRAY

Ways you could lead your group into prayer:

  • Divide into pairs and each person pray for the other in their pair

  • Ask each member to share a prayer request with the group and have a time of open prayer

  • Pray for and prophesy over a different member of the group each week

We also encourage groups to join in the daily rhythm of praying the Lord’s Prayer at 12pm every day, a practice great to establish while we are in this current sermon series.

SOUL CARE

While many of you are gifted in supporting and pastoring your Group, this is a responsibility and honour we share together. If you feel that a group member would benefit from some more targeted pastoral support, you can suggest that they get in touch with Soul Care, Trinity’s pastoral care team. They can make a self-referral via this link.

We would also find it really helpful if you could get in touch with us via the same form. That way, we can create as full a picture of the situation as we can to help us respond in the best way.