- Acts 6: 1-7
- Psalms 33: 1-2, 4-5, 18-19
- 1 Peter 2: 4-9
- John 14: 1-12
- Won't power
- Discernment - the practice of making decisions and taking action at the Spirit's prompting, is both challenging and rewarding. One of the biggest challenges of discernment is choosing not to do something, in order to have room in your life for something else.
- Has there ever been a point in time, or even a season in your life when you wanted to be in two places at once, or wanted to somehow get more time?
- Were both (all) of those demands on your time and energy equally good, at least by some measure?
- How did you decide on one over the other?
- Did that decision bring you any peace?
- What role did prayer have in that experience?
- The eye of God
- Hate is not the opposite of love, indifference is.
- Have you ever tried to reach out to someone in deep need? Maybe they were going through a health crisis, lost their job, suffered violence or hatred of some sort.
- What was the hardest thing about that encounter?
- Why do you think that was so painful?
- Do you think that God, with His intimate awareness of us, feels pain, empathy, sorrow for us?
- Do you think that we can share that burden of God's in any way?
- Indwelling
- Perhaps the most radical theology of the Trinity is its inclusiveness. God is not content with us merely gazing in wonder at the Trinity, He wants for us to join in that eternal dance between/among the Trinity.
- Sports figures, entertainers, motivational speakers all have their definition of "in the zone", a state in which you are able to utterly focus on the matter at hand, and leave aside any distracting influences. Do you think that God calls us to be "in the zone" in life?
- When was the last time that you felt totally at peace in what you were doing at the moment, totally alive, and totally "in the zone".
- Was God there in any way?
- Do you think Jesus was "in the zone" while He was here on earth?
- What does it take to get there?
- Show us the Father
- It's hard to tell what was going through Phillip's mind when he asked Jesus to show them the Father, but perhaps he wanted, in seeing God, to finally understand the place of things in the grand picture of life, where it all fit, what it all meant, and what it all was worth.
- If you had to furnish your room in heaven, what/who would you put there?
- Assume that, in heaven, we get all of our memories back, so we might not need so much memorabilia to remind us of favorite people, times, events.
- Does that change how would furnish your room?
- Preparation for Reconciliation
- What blessings to I need to set aside to make room for even greater blessings?
- When was the last time that I prayed for God's provision?
- Is my faith strong enough for me to accept condemnation from others?
- What in my life today is important enough to take in Eternity??
Shalom!
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