This page provides group leaders a guide that has everything you will need to walk your group through each week’s lesson. In it, you will find weekly Bible passages, Sermon Recap, and ways to connect and grow. It is our hope that each guide will help facilitate deeper connections in your Life Group.
The pressure is real. Blend in. Go along. Don’t make it weird. The world has a hundred ways of asking you to set down your convictions and just… fit. Daniel got the same memo. He didn’t act on it.
Daniel didn’t choose Babylon. But he chose how to live there. He was outnumbered, outranked, and surrounded by a culture that wanted to reshape him from the inside out. But Daniel held the line. Not with anger. Not with a chip on his shoulder. But with courage and kindness. This ultimately changed the very culture that tried to change him. He stayed standing when everyone else had already bowed.
That’s the kind of faith this series is about. 5 weeks. The book of Daniel. One question at the center of all of it: What does it look like to stand—right here, right now? Different on purpose. Loving on purpose. Faithful on purpose. STAND: Hold the Line. Because some things are worth it.
Then Nebuchadnezzer said, “Praise be to the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, who has sent His angel and rescued His servants! They trusted In Him and defied the king’s command and were willing to give up their lives rather than serve or worship any god except their own God. Daniel 3:28
Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be courageous; be strong. 1 Corinthians 16:13
He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near. For through him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit. Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his household… Ephesians 2:17-19
Don’t let anyone look down on your because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity. 2 Timothy 4:12
