🍳 Men’s Breakfast Discussion Guide ☕

• Topic: GOD’S WILL: Whose Plan Is This?

• Opening Insight: 

Description:  We make plans as though tomorrow belongs to us. But what happens when we put God at the center of our plans, our schedules, our decisions, and our future? 

Setting:  When we have fewer mandatory work schedules dictating our days, we face a different kind of steering wheel. How has the way you seek and experience 'God’s will' changed from your younger, busier years to this current season of less strengent schedules?

Scripture:  "Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will." - Romans 12:1-2

• Discussion:

The Living Sacrifice: "As men who intentionally turn toward God's Word, we know what it means to yield to Him. But Paul uses the term living sacrifice. What is one area of your present life, future security, or family legacy where you still find it tempting to take the steering wheel back from the altar?"

The World's Pattern vs. Open Time: "The 'pattern of this world' tells retired men that this season is strictly about self-preservation, comfort, or just passing the time. How does 'renewing your mind' reshape how you view a completely open Tuesday or Thursday morning?"

Testing and Approving: "The verse links a surrendered life directly to knowing His will ('Then you will be able to test and approve...')^. In your walk, how have you seen a posture of daily surrender make His voice and direction clearer?"    ^ (deeper insight to this phase)

• Generational Dynamic 

The sermon description mentions putting God at the center of our future. When you look at the next generation—our kids, grandkids, or younger guys in the church who are completely caught up in the frantic pace of building plans as if tomorrow belongs to them—how can we use our seasoned walk to model what a life centered on God's Will actually looks like?

• Close, Call to Action

Gentlemen, as we look ahead to Sunday's message on God's will, let's challenge ourselves to bring this conversation into real-time application. Because we have the blessing of space in our week to turn toward His Word, our call to action before the sermon is to practice a 'Blank Page Handover.'

Sometime before Sunday, take a few quiet minutes, it can be during your regular devotion time. Open your journal, a notebook, or grab a blank printer page. Write down whatever decision, family concern, or upcoming plan is heavily occupying your thoughts right now.

Then, pray a very specific, single-sentence prayer over that page:

'Lord, I am turning this completely over to you. If it is your will, let it happen; if not, redirect my steps.'

Let’s go into Sunday’s service with our hands completely open to what the Lord wants to speak to us.

🙏 Concluding Prayer

Let’s pray:Heavenly Father,

We come to You this morning in joyous celebration of Your goodness, and with hearts full of gratitude for the brotherhood and deep wisdom shared around this table. Thank You for the gift of this season of life, and for the blessing of time that allows us to regularly turn our eyes toward Your Word and seek Your perfect Will. 

Lord, as we prepare for the upcoming sermon, we ask that You would give us collective ears to hear and open hearts to receive the message. We understand that tomorrow is not promised to any of us, help us to place You at the absolute center of our open schedules, our daily decisions, and our family legacies.

Right now, we intentionally place our collective future into Your hands. We lay down our own blueprints, we lift our hands, and we surrender our desires to Yours. Keep us steady on the altar as living sacrifices this week, and use our lives to model Your faithfulness to the generations following behind us.

In Jesus' name we pray, Amen.