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Week 7
WEEK OF: October 18, 2026
Getting Started
What's something you failed at once and immediately decided, "Well, I'm never doing THAT again"? (ie...trying to cook something, singing karaoke, trying to fix something yourself...)
This Week's Conversation
Ever notice how one bad day can make you feel like your whole life is falling apart? One person’s comment sticks with you for days. One failure makes you question whether you’re good enough. One painful experience makes you expect the same thing to happen all over again. Before you know it, you’re not just remembering what happened—you’re letting it shape what you believe, how you respond, and what you expect from the future. But what if the thoughts you’ve been carrying aren’t telling you the whole truth? This Sunday, we talked about how God renews our minds and transforms the way we see ourselves, our circumstances, and our future.
What about you? Are you seeing your life through the truth of God’s Word, or are you letting your experiences write the story you believe? Let’s talk about it.
What about you? Are you seeing your life through the truth of God’s Word, or are you letting your experiences write the story you believe? Let’s talk about it.
Discuss
- What’s been a negative experience you’ve had (...something someone said to you; something you tried to do; something happened TO you) that stuck with you for a long time?
- How did that experience affect the way you saw yourself, and/or the world?
- Why do you think a bad experience can stick with us longer than several good ones?
- How can things that happened in our past affect how we handle things today?
- What’s the difference between learning from a mistake and letting that mistake define you?
Read
Together, let’s read 2 Corinthians 10:5 and discover what the Bible says about our thoughts. Note or write down one thing that sticks out to you as we read.
Read 2 Corinthians 10:5
6. What is one word, thought, or principle that stands out to you in this passage?
7. What do you think it might look like to take a negative thought captive instead of letting it control how we feel or act?
8. What’s one thought you struggle with that you think God might want to replace with His truth?
7. What do you think it might look like to take a negative thought captive instead of letting it control how we feel or act?
8. What’s one thought you struggle with that you think God might want to replace with His truth?
Closing Thought
Changing the way we think doesn’t happen overnight. Some beliefs have been with us for years, shaped by painful experiences, hurtful words, or moments when we felt like we weren’t enough. But God isn’t asking us to figure it all out today. He’s inviting us to let Him change us, one thought at a time. As we learn to recognize the lies we’ve believed and replace them with His truth, we begin to see ourselves and our lives differently.
Our past may have shaped the way we think, but it doesn’t have to define who we become.
With God’s help, we can stop letting old experiences write our story and start living in the freedom of His truth.
Our past may have shaped the way we think, but it doesn’t have to define who we become.
With God’s help, we can stop letting old experiences write our story and start living in the freedom of His truth.
Pray
Let’s pray together over the things we all shared here today.