The leader’s introduction
Before week one, read the leader’s introduction (2 pages, PDF). It covers what the series is about, how to run a session and how to care for people well.
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for The Weight of God: How to Believe by Matthew Wong
When the New Testament says “believe”, the word underneath is pistis. In the first century it meant putting your full weight on someone.
Seven sessions, seven simple pictures, one question. Leader guides and participant sheets are all here to download and copy for your group.
Most of us were taught that to believe is to agree that something is true. The people who first heard the gospel heard something bigger: trust you lean your whole life on.
This series walks a group through that idea over seven weeks, alongside the book The Weight of God: How to Believe by Matthew Wong. Each session takes one picture from the book, such as a roof that gave way, a child asleep on her father’s chest or a mustard seed in good soil, and sets it beside the Scriptures. Each week comes back to the same question: where is your weight?
There’s no new doctrine and no agenda. It’s written so any church can use it.
Each session has a leader guide and a one-page participant sheet with room to write. Print one sheet per person.
Before week one, read the leader’s introduction (2 pages, PDF). It covers what the series is about, how to run a session and how to care for people well.
Read the introductionPDF · 2 pages · 138 KBEveryone puts their weight on something, and the question that matters is whether what we’re standing on can actually hold us.
From the book: Chapter 1
Amen doesn’t mean “I agree”; it means “that is solid, and I’m standing on it.”
From the book: Chapter 2
Believing that something is true about Jesus is not the same as believing into him; saving faith moves your weight onto him.
From the book: Chapters 3 and 6
Trusting God is less like feeling confident and more like a sleepy child letting their full weight land on a parent they know will hold them.
From the book: Chapter 4
Jesus doesn’t ask us for bigger faith; he asks where our faith is planted, because a seed in a jar does nothing and the same seed in good soil takes over.
From the book: Chapter 7
Faith isn’t a leap in the dark; the Bible’s own definition makes it the foundation under your hope and the evidence you stand on.
From the book: Chapters 5 and 8
Real faith shows up in a changed life, and when our weight slips back onto ourselves, as it will, the foundation hasn’t moved.
From the book: Chapters 9 and 12
Free to print and copy for your group. No sign-up, no email address, nothing to fill in.
For leaders
The leader’s introduction and all seven leader guides in one file.
Download leader pack (PDF · 16 pages · 475 KB)For your group
All seven participant sheets, one page each, with room to write. Print one per person, each week.
Download participant pack (PDF · 8 pages · 387 KB)New to leading? Start with the leader’s introduction (PDF · 2 pages).
Every session follows one rhythm, so your group settles into it by week two. The times are a guide: if a conversation is going somewhere good, let it run.
A book per person is recommended. The guides work on their own, but the series is much richer when everyone can read the chapters between sessions. One per couple works too.
You only need to be willing to ask the question with your group, and to answer it yourself. Start with the leader’s introduction (two pages). It covers what the series is about, how to run a session and how to care for people well.
This series asks people to look at what they’re standing on, and for some that thing has already given way. Listen, don’t rush to fix, and follow up privately.
Many churches pair the series with a Sunday. Matthew offers a free guest message that opens the same question, and he’ll post a free copy of the book to any pastor or church leader who’d like to read it first.
The question under every session
Where is your weight?
Seven weeks, one question, and a book for everyone in the room.
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