Welcome to Connect Group for 2026!

These questions are to help us to get to know each other and get our groups started on the right foot.

Getting connected

First, to get to know each other, answer whichever questions you'd like to - or for a bit of fun, spin the wheel to decide which question to answer! (re-spins are permitted!)

1. If you could invent a new public holiday, what would it celebrate?

2. What's your biggest baking or DIY fail?

3. If you could become an instant expert in one thing, what would it be?

4. What is the best random-act-of-kindness a stranger ever did for you?

5. What word or phrase do you think you overuse?

6. What's a lesson you've learned in life by making a mistake?

7. What is something God has been teaching you or challenging you about in the last month?

8. Who is on your heart at the moment, who you would particularly like God to bless this year? (+ take a moment to pray for them now!)

9. What do you personally hope to get out of being in this Connect Group this year?

10. If you could choose one topic or part of the bible to hear a sermon or do a bible study on this year, what would it be, and why?

    
    

Getting on the same page

Next, spend some time discussing what it means to come together as a group:

• What are your expectations for our Connect Group this year?

• What are you hoping and praying for the year ahead as a group?

• What do you think we could commit/promise to do together/for one another?

Take a moment to pray into these things together, that God would be at work in our group this year.

Bible Study: A Movement of Service

Read John 13:1-17

• How do you imagine the disciples would have felt as Jesus washed all their feet one by one?

• What exactly was the 'example' Jesus set for us by washing his disciples feet?

  • What do you think are the modern equivalents to foot washing?

• In what ways are we tempted to be proud or self-important, even as Christians?

Tom Wright says,

The point is that, for us as for Jesus, we should be looking away from ourselves, and at the world we are supposed to be serving. Where the world’s needs and our vocation meet is where we ought to be, ready to take on insignificant roles if that’s what God wants, or to be publicly visible if that is our calling. And, as with Jesus, the picture of footwashing is meant to serve not only as a picture of all sorts of menial tasks that we may be called to perform, without drawing attention to them. It also points towards the much larger challenge, the challenge that Jesus issued to Peter in the last chapter of the book, the challenge to follow Jesus all the way to the cross, to lay down life itself in the service of God and the world he came to save.

John for Everyone Part 2, N. T. Wright, p. 49

• What do you think of Wright's interpretation here?

• What does it mean for you to be a servant of the world's needs in your calling or vocation?

Spend some time praying together - pray that we would have willing servant hearts, and that God would continue to lead and guide us into the particular serving he wants us to do.