DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
What is the purpose of spiritual gifts? What spiritual gifts do you possess?
What does it mean to “prophesy” today, and how can you exercise it?
Have you ever seen someone exercise the “speaking of tongue”? How does today’s sermon reconcile with your experience?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
Order of Worship can be found here.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
What is the significance of being created to eat?
What does eating together do for Christian fellowship?
What about salvation does Jesus instruct through His Supper?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
Order of Worship can be found here.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
What can we gain from understanding varying “Degrees of Importance” for any issue, and acquiring sound biblical interpretive methodology (biblical hermeneutics)?
How did God use the inequality of authority to redeem mankind in Jesus?
What does it mean to love/lead like Jesus? And what does it mean to submit/love like Jesus?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
Order of Worship can be found here.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
What things did Jesus overcome in this world to make us take comfort in Him?
How did Jesus exercise His given authority over people?
Since Jesus is returning to glory which He had “before the world existed”, what can we say about His humility on earth?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
Order of Worship can be found here.
DISCUSSIONS QUESTIONS
How does the gentleness of Jesus comfort your current weaknesses and fears?
How should the power of Jesus shape your perspective on how we ought to think about and conduct ourselves in our current situation?
How does the glory of Jesus motivate you to spend and steward the very limited time we have in this life?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
Order of Worship can be found here.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
1. Is Christianity realistic about what is at stake regarding the resurrection of Jesus Christ?
2. What gives you assurance of Christ’s, and therefore your own resurrection? What support do you have from the sermon, or past lessons?
3. What does the Bible say about our resurrected and glorified body?
4. What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
Order of Worship can be found here.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
What sort of “saving” do we really need now? How can we recognize our Savior?
What is required in praying to our Saviour?
In what ways are we similar to the colt on which Jesus rode into Jerusalem?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
How is strategic partnership different from general cooperation?
Can you describe how HCC intends to further God’s Kingdom work in Sydney?
How do you see your place and participation in the ministry vision of HCC?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
1. Do you truly feel secure in Jesus? Does your eternal spiritual security translate to earthly and physical security? How do you understand the presence of “comfort gap” between what we know to be true spiritually and how we experience life physically now?
2. What can you practically do better to “keep awake and be sober” according to the sermon?
3. What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Where does God dwell individually ( ), and corporately ( )?
Where do we see the continuity and discontinuity between earthly church and Heavenly Kingdom?
Unlike ancient temples and medieval cathedrals, how can a modern space accommodate Kingdom-ministry of local churches?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
According to the message, what does it mean to seek the good of our neighbours in Sydney?
How does our participation in the Great Commission glorify God?
What about the HCC Vision 20/30 excites you? Where or how do you see yourself being a part?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
How does God’s judgement in the Old Testament help you to reflect honestly upon your own life of faith?
How does God’s faithfulness in testing encourage and comfort you to overcome trials in life?
Why is it important that we heed God’s warning in remaining faithful to him?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
How did Paul model “being all things to all people”? And how can we adapt our approach towards others so that they may be won over to Christ?
How can the church both provide wages for the labouring gospel-ministers, while making the ministry of the gospel free of charge?
What can we learn about “Christian discipline” from Paul’s examples of runner, athlete and boxer?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
What particular verse in 1 Cor. 8:1-13 outlines the “potent knowledge” we have as Christians? How can this great knowledge “puff up,” rather than “build up?” What is that attitude we must have regarding this knowledge?
What functions like “food offered to idols” in today’s culture? What do we offer and taint in modern idolatry?
Who are the brothers/sisters with “weak conscience”? In contrast, who are not? How can we look after those weaker brothers and sisters?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
What decisions (big or small) do you obsess over? Share with your group, and discuss if these are matters of Christian liberty (or not).
Do you fall more in the category of “betrothed, married, or widow”? What do you need to change in your thinking about relationships?
Is your “desire under control”, or are your “passions strong”? Share about your hopes for the future and your struggles in the present. Pray earnestly now and in the future for one another.
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
When do you find yourself more concerned about keeping up appearances than actually obeying God’s commands?
Upon what basis does Paul say to bondservants to ’not be concerned’? What are you anxious about?
What does contentment in your calling look like? What does discontentment in your calling look like?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
According to the sermon, what is the most biblical and fundamental way of “being human”?
What were those reasons for overt & over-sexualization of everything in today’s society?
What of the applicational principles on singleness, marriage, divorce, remarriage and redemption helped you the most? How do they impact your life specifically?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
How do you use your freedom in Christ? Do your freedom activities benefit you and others, or bring harm?
How are your life associations in general? Do they edify, or lead towards ungodliness?
Do you practice sexual purity whether single or married (keeping your “marriage bed pure”) — abstaining from extra-marital activities, including pornography?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Can you identify with the Psalmist regarding darkness, mourning and sackcloth? Would you care about some of the most difficult periods of your life?
How did Jesus transform mourning into joy of the morning?
How can Christians experience transformation and victory in this life as well as the life to come?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?