DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
How do we go from spiritual apathy to disobedience to mount rage against God? Have you ever been angry at God? --angry enough to want to leave God?
How are we like Barabbas? List all the similarities. Do these resonate with you?
How do we do the unthinkable? Are we aware of our “resident evil”? How can faith and humility redeem you from sin?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
Order of Worship can be found here.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
How do we subject God to our judgment according to the message? Can you recall those times when you have also participated in dismissing the presence and authority of God?
Merely going through the motion is tiresome, tedious, and numbing. Have you ever experienced such spiritual apathy?
How does the Lordship of Christ set us free? Is Jesus indeed the Lord of your life in every way
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
Order of Worship can be found here.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Where do you see the impacts of the fall in your own life? Why was it critical for the cycle of human sin to be broken?
How does the integrity and victory of Jesus under pressure challenge and comfort you in your faith?
Why is the story of Peter so heart-breaking and hope-giving at the same time?
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 recall the times when you were particularly spiritually “high” or “low”? How do spiritual pride and insecurity manifest in your life?
2. What was the point of “watching” Jesus in Gethsemane?
3. How can our spirit overcome the weaknesses of the flesh? What practical difference do you wish to see in your own life?
4. What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
Order of Worship can be found here.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
What kinds of people are invited to dine with Jesus in the first scene? On a normal day, who do find yourself relating to?
How does the story of Judas warn us about having the appearance of faith but a dead heart?
How should the Lord’s Supper remind us of Christ and encourage us to continue to persevere in faithfulness?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
Order of Worship can be found here.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
How does the local translator’s interpretation of a mustard seed as perfect (having everything that it needs to grow to become a tree and bear fruit) add to our understanding of what Jesus says about faith?
How would you assess your faith? What are some things you can do to have faith like a mustard seed?
Have there been times in your life when your faith was tested? What was it like? How did you get through it?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
Order of Worship can be found here.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
What is your sense of the “season” pertaining to the return of Christ? How engaged are you in the participation of the harvest season?
Have you been chosen? How do you know? And how do you feel to be a part of the “company of the elect”?
Describe what the Bible (and sermon preached) says about the “pomp and circumstance” of the return of Christ. What else do you imagine about the return of Christ?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
Order of Worship can be found here.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
How does your enjoyment of the present world distract you from the coming end
time? What are your favourite diversions?
What of the preached word helped you to sense the nearness of the end time?
What of the world you now live in resonates with the warnings about the end
time?
What can you do to “be on guard” as a believer waiting on the return of Christ?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
Order of Worship can be found here.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
How preciously do you regard your life? And what is the basis of your valuation—especially as informed by the sermon?
What is the difference between life “in the law”, and life “in the Spirit”?
What are some real and practical things you would 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 ever used God’s grace as a “license” to freely sin? Share?!
How seriously do you take sinning? Is there a problem with your scale for measuring sin?
How can you use the law of the O.T. and the many instructions we find in the N.T. in order to grow holy and be sanctified?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
Order of Worship can be found here.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
How did the pastor define the meaning and practice of “legalism”?
Can you relate with the “older brother” in anyway?
How does legalism ultimately ruin the church of fostering “grace culture”? Can you recall some examples, or share some of your own?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
Order of Worship can be found here.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
How is “biblical grace” unique from other general ideas about “grace”?
How is “culture” defined and explained in the sermon?
How does biblical grace impact our lives and in turn those around us?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
Order of Worship can be found here.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
What can you take away from the idea of altar that applies to our private and family worship?
How does worship go wrong?
In what ways are private and family worship connected to corporate worship and church as a whole?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
Order of Worship can be found here.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
Why was John’s call to repentance so important in preparing the way for the Lord? What is your attitude towards the idea of repentance?
What is it about the crowd’s repentance that John calls out as hypocrisy? When are we in danger of having the appearance of life but bearing little fruit?
What might it look like to anticipate Christ’s return today?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
Order of Worship can be found here.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
What makes “extraordinary” what it is? How does the plain “ordinary” sets the stage for extraordinary work of God? Have you experienced such in your own life?
How does the childhood and boyhood of Jesus help us to understand His humanity?
How does Nazareth and the boyhood of Jesus set the stage for His amazing redemptive work?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
Order of Worship can be found here.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
In what sense was Jesus the consolation of his people Israel? How does his coming console you?
What is the significance of Simeon saying that Jesus is a light for revelation to the Gentiles and for glory for Israel?
How was Anna comforted in her life of devotion to God at the temple in the coming of Christ?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
Order of Worship can be found here.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
What does the rejoicing of the shepherds and angels indicate? How does their celebration include us today?
How has Christ and salvation transformed your own life from fearing to praising and rejoicing? Do you have some testimonies to bear?
How does our intimate knowledge of Christ make a wider and even global difference in the lives of people?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
Order of Worship can be found here.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
Was God ever obligated to save sinners? What is the significance of God’s approach and initiation to come near us?
Compare the “King of Kings” and other “earthly kings”. Who is more glorious? How can we see the glory of the true King?
How much “room” does the Lord of the universe take up in your heart and life? Is there a room for repentance and transformation?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
Order of Worship can be found here.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
In what ways are you tempted to flex your 'spirituality' like the scribes? Why?
How does the example of the poor widow's quiet faithfulness challenge how you live for Christ?
Why is it easier to give out of abundance than out of poverty? What does it reveal about the desires of the heart?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
Order of Worship can be found here.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
Why is the command to love the greatest of all commandments?
What is your experience in love; especially in your efforts to love unconditionally?
How does the nearness of Christ help you to both experience God’s love and enable you to love?
What was the most helpful/challenging/encouraging part of the sermon for you?
Order of Worship can be found here.