DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
1. Why was the calling of Levi so unlikely? How unlikely was your own call to follow Jesus?
2. Deep down, which party do you relate to more, day to day: the sinners or the Pharisees?
3. Why is it so important to continually wrestle with the deep truths of our sin?
4. What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
The order of worship can be found here.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
What is the biggest problem in your life right now that if it were solved you would have a tremendous burden lifted off your shoulders?
What gives Jesus the ability to forgive sins?
Are there any friends in your life that cannot or will not come to Jesus? What are you willing to do for that friend?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
Order of worship can be found here.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
What are some of the most absurd reasons why people are famous? Why are people drawn towards fame?
What should a church be known for? How can some secondary things become the main thing?How can we guard against that?
How can you make proclaiming the gospel a real priority in your life? How could you make sure it is personal when you give the gospel?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
Order of worship can be found here.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
How is Jesus different from other scribes and teachers? What quality did the people notice about Him?
How has your life been impacted by your association with Jesus and His church? How do others treat you differently or worse? What are the costs you incurred?
Consider the remainder of your life, as a builder might consider the cost before undertaking the project. Do you trust Jesus to keep you faithful in Him to the very end?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
Order of worship can be found here.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
What are the “states (or stages)” of Christ’s humiliation?
How does John’s life, ministry, arrest and death testify of a believer’s journey?
What do we gain from Christ’s victory against Satan’s temptation?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
Order of worship can be found here.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
What is unique about Mark’s gospel compared to the other three? And what interpretive tools will help you to read and understand Mark’s gospel?
What is the central point of John’s baptism, and how is it different from the baptism as practiced by church today?
What is the significance of validating Jesus as God’s “beloved Son” at the start of His earthly ministry?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
Order of Worship can be found here.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
What have we learned from the sermon about the “heart of Christian prayer”, and how is it different from all other religious/spiritual prayers?
How does the relational nature of God’s interaction with our prayer affect your own prayers? Does it draw your heart closer to or push farther from your Heavenly Father? How should it be?
What have you learned about effective ways to grow your faith and humility through prayer
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
Order of worship can be found here.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
What “oath or promise” do you recall making in the past? How did you feel about them? How do you understand them in light of the message (from James 5:7-12)?
Would you consider yourself a patient person? Share about your answer. How does the message encourage you to be patient in light of the gospel?
How do you now understand the purpose of the Lord’s return, and also His timing?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
Order of worship can be found here.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Are you enamoured by the idea of becoming rich? How do you take the warning from God’s word?
What does it mean to depend on God’s will for your future and all that you do?
How are we able to trust God about all our future matters?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
Order of Worship can be found here.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
How do the raging passions of your heart manifest themselves in your decisions/attitudes/habits/ambitions/desires?
Why does it take so much (ie. disaster) for us to humbly submit ourselves and draw near to God in godly sorrow/repentance?
How should the softening/transformation of our hearts change our attitudes and behaviour towards other Christians?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
Order of Worship can be found here.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
How would you say the scriptures and wisdom from God has impacted your conduct?
Can you resonate with the Bible’s description of selfish-ambition and bitter-jealousy? How does it in some way describe your past or present feelings and behaviour?
How can we attain a “harvest of righteousness and peace” that the Bible exhort?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
Order of Worship can be found here.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
How is the perfection of God’s word most fully revealed?
Can you recall a time when you were greatly impacted (for good or ill) by mere few words whether yours or by others? What happened? What would you change about those words, if anything?
What should we do with our words? How can we make the best use of our words? What would you specifically commit to do differently as a Christian?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
Order of Worship can be found here.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
Have you seen faith that doesn’t amount to much? What are some examples of ineffective so-called “faith”?
How would you describe the “synergy” of working faith?
How does grace enable the integration of faith and works?
What was the most helpful / challenging / encouraging part of the sermon for you?
Order of worship can be found here.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
Is there a person/group of people that you almost instinctively don’t like? Why? How does this passage challenge you?
Why is the sin of favouritism foolish? Can you name some examples, both personal and general?
How does being under the law of liberty both comfort and challenge you to keep growing in faithful obedience to Christ?
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 motivation for your life’s activities? How does God’s Word inform you of who you are and how you should live?
To become more Christ-like, do you detect any improvement in your Christian character - to be less angry and mean, but instead more gentle and accommodating?
What of your life’s activities promote those things that please God?
What was the most helpful / challenging / encouraging part of the sermon for you?
Order of Worship can be found here.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
How did you do on the simple spiritual inventory survey? Would you care to share the score and comment on it?
What did you learn from the sermon on the importance of spiritual assessments, and how would you apply them in your own life?
According to the sermon, how does Christ’s grace stack up to the spiritual tests? And how do we benefit as Christians?
What was the most helpful / challenging / encouraging part of the sermon for you?
Order of Worship can be found here.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
Are you a good listener? Please share. Do you hear and obey God well?
Which of the 10 Commandments are the “vertical call’, and which do you find most challenging and why?
Which of the 10 Commandments are the “horizontal call”, and which do you find most challenging and why?
What was the most helpful / challenging / encouraging part of the sermon for you?
Order of Worship can be found here.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
Can you identify with some of the symptoms associated with lack of spiritual discipline? Please share honestly.
In what areas would you focus on improving your spiritual discipline?
What is the end-goal of spiritual discipline?
What was the most helpful / challenging / encouraging part of the sermon for you?
Order of Worship can be found here.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
1. Can you resonate with the list of hard things we experienced this year? What would you add to the list?
2. Can you also resonate with the list of those things which were actually good for us as a church? On a personal level, what would you add?
3. According to the message, what can we anticipate from God for next year?
4. What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
Order of worship can be found here
Order of worship can be found here