1. When you hear the word “good” what images immediately come to mind?
2. How have you experienced the goodness of God in the past 2 months?
3. Read: Galatians 6:9-10
4. Why would anyone grow weary in "doing good"? What makes you weary in doing good? 
5. What does goodness look like from these passages? 2 Cor 4:1-2, 7-18; 1 Cor 15:58; Hebrews 12:3.
6. What keeps you specifically from doing good?
7. Read Ephesians 2:10.  Ask: What does this tell us about our good works? (Hint: they are prepared by God – they are by grace). How do you avoid turning “good works” into acts of legalism? How will you "do good" this week?

 Optional Leaders’ Helps: 

This word “goodness” occurs only in the Greek Old Testament, the New Testament and literature directly dependent on them. It has been interpreted as “the quality which a man has who is good and therefore as moral excellence as well as goodness. But perhaps the best way of getting at the meaning of the term is to set it alongside two other terms: righteousness and righteous person…we can see that “goodness is an attitude of generous kindliness to others, which is happy to do far more than is required by mere justice.” (Fung, Ronald, NICNT The Epistle to the Galatians, p. 268) Goodness, in God as in man, means something admirable, attractive, and praiseworthy. When the Biblical writers call God good, they are thinking in general of all those moral qualities which prompt His people to call Him perfect, and in particular of the generosity which moves them to call Him merciful and gracious, and to speak of His love…Generosity means a disposition to give to others in a way that has no mercenary motive and is not limited by what the recipients deserve, but consistently goes beyond it. Generosity expresses the simple wish that others should have what they need to make them happy. Generosity…is the focal point of God’s moral perfection; it is the quality which determines how all God’s other excellences are to be displayed. God is abundant in goodness – spontaneously good, overflowing with generosity… (Packer, J.I. (1973) Knowing God,  pp. 145-47) 

Other Passages:

Exodus 33:12-23, 34:5-9 Discuss the attributes of God.

Matthew 26:6-13 Discuss why this was “good” and how we would imitate this act today.