Breaking Ground What summer activity did you look forward to the most when you were a kid? Why? The Dig This Sunday, we continued our series called Jesus’ Money, where we’re exploring several of Jesus’ teachings concerning how we should see, think about, & interact with money.  This week, we turned our reflection towards how…

Breaking Ground What was your first job? What was it like? What do you think about the experience in hindsight?  The Dig This Sunday, we began our new series called Jesus’ Money, where we’re going to be exploring a number of Jesus’ teachings concerning how his disciples should see, think about, & interact with money,…

Breaking Ground Who in your life has had the biggest influence on your worldview or current belief system? Why?   The Dig This Sunday, we explored the topic of having principles as Christians (both individually & corporately). Begin your discussion today by reflecting on the nature of principles in your own life & world. How…

Breaking Ground What’s been your favorite experience or part of summer so far? Why? The Dig This Sunday, we celebrated Baptism Sunday or THE BEST DAY EVER! With this in mind, reflect this week on the sacrament of baptism & your own experiences with it. Have you been baptized? If so, what did it mean…

Breaking Ground Who is a person that you consider a mentor in your life, or, if you don’t have one, who is a fictitious character who you would’ve loved to be a mentor? The Dig This Sunday, we continued our series: MY ETERNAL SCORECARD, where we are looking at how we culturally are shaped by…

Breaking Ground If you could have a “mulligan”—a do-over—of a moment in your life, what moment might you choose?  A time you felt humiliated?  A time of loss?  A successful moment you’d like to respond different too? The Dig This Sunday we started a new series: MY ETERNAL SCORECARD where we are looking at how…

Breaking Ground When do you feel the tension of Karma thinking—that when you do something that is “Bad” you have to make it up for “Good”?  Have you ever thought the inverse?  If you don’t, do you know someone who does? The Dig This Sunday we started a new series: MY ETERNAL SCORECARD where we…

Breaking Ground: Consider if you are willing to share…what was your first core memory of dealing with the idea of death?  Was it a relative?  A pet?  What were your main feelings regarding this experience? The Dig: This Sunday we concluded LIMINAL with the greatest example of a liminal moment: life to death.  A reminder…

Breaking Ground: What was a moment in time where you felt sure of yourself and the choices you had made? Going Deeper: This week is graduation Sunday at Element3, a time to recognize several life changes and the choices that got them there.  From Kindergarten to 5th, 8th to 12th, or graduate degrees, life seems to…

Breaking Ground: What are the thoughts that you have when you think of mom?  Did your mom “fit” into a traditional mom definition? Going Deeper This Sunday we started a new series called Liminal.  A liminal space is a place or state of transition, representing the “in-between” threshold between “what was” and “what’s next”. Often…