Questions:

1. What stood out to you in the message?

2. What is your favorite worship song or hymn? Is it a song that you mostly sing to God or is mostly sung about God?

3. When singing a song to God at church, are you sometimes distracted by the people around you? What are some ways you could tune out people and things around you and sing the songs directly to God?

4. What are some aspects of your life that don't match up with the song lyrics that you sing at church?

Scripture Passages:

Galatians 1-6

Questions:

1. What stood out to you in the message?

2. Why do you go to church?

3. What do you have in your life that keeps you from attending church more consistently?

4. Who can you encourage to follow Jesus more closely while together at church?

5. What relationship needs to be restored so that you can bring God and offering of worship he will accept?

6. What steps do you need to take to restore unity?

Scripture Passages:

1 Corinthians 15-16, 2 Corinthians 1-3

Questions:

1. What stood out to you in the message?

2. Of all your adventures in life, which was the most daring or exciting?

3. Before walking on the water, Jesus went and prayed alone. Why do you think he wanted to pray alone?

4. What was happening on the lake that rocked the disciple’s boat? What caused them to be afraid? What encouraged them in their faith?

5. What do Peter 's actions reveal about his personality?

6. Would you be more likely to stay in the boat or step out of it? Why?

7. How do the disciples respond as a result of this experience with Jesus?

 

Scripture Passages: 1 Corinthians 9-14

Questions:

1. What stood out to you in the message?

2. How has the desire to fit in affected how you dress, act, and speak? Is it different than it was in your teens?

3. How can you offer your whole life as a living sacrifice?

4. What does Romans 12:1 add to your understanding of true worship (see also 6/13 and 8/13)?

5. In what ways do you tend to conform to the world? How does the renewing of your mind happen?

 

Scripture Passages: 1 Corinthians 3-8

Questions:

1. What stood out for you in this Sunday's message?

2. Did following Christ ever make you seem like a loser to the world? How so?

3. How has God encouraged you to overcome some of your life's greatest struggles?

4. Who are some of the people who have spoken God's word into your life over the years? Was it always easy to take it in?

5. How does the assurance of Christ's return make you feel? Does anything need to be changed in your life before that day comes?

Questions:

1. What stood out to you in the message?

2. What did Pastor Chad say is the point of the passages that we have been looking at? (Hint: read 1 Thessalonians 2:13-17)

3. How does the graphic that Pastor Chad showed help you trust God’s Word more? (You can find the graphic at https://www.chrisharrison.net/index.php/visualizations/BibleViz)

4. How has your interest in worshipping God increased or decreased through this series in Revelation? What have you learned in this series?

5. What is one struggle you hope to manage more confidently and joyfully as a result of studying Revelation?

Scripture Passages: Romans 4-8

Questions:

1. What stood out to you in the message?

2. When was the last time your favorite team finally won the championship? Tell about any of the celebrations that you witnessed from that victory.

3. How does the defeat and condemnation of Babylon and the triumph and glory of the Lord God affect your overall view of your problems or the difficulties you see in the world around you?

4. Read revelation 19:11-21. What does this passage say about Jesus’ power and authority?

5. What weapon does Jesus wield? What does this mean and why is it important?

6. What is your greatest spiritual battle today? What is the outcome so far? What hope do you have in this struggle from the victory conveyed at the end of the book of Revelation?

 

Acts 27-28, Romans 1-3

Questions:

1. What stood out to you in the message?

2. If you could be famous for one hour, for what would you like to be known? Why?

3. Who is the central figure in Revelation 17 and 18? Who is she? What does she represent?

4. Pastor Chad said that there were two types of sin that are associated with her. What are the sins associated with her?

5. How do you see her and her influence in today’s society?

6. Of society’s wrongs, which ones have entrapped you from time to time? How has God enabled you to avoid the snares of “the great harlot”?

Scripture Passages:

Acts 22-26

Questions:

1. What stood out to you in the message?

2. If you could have a bowl full of anything right now, what would you want? Why?

3. Revelation 16 describes a series of judgments poured out from bowls. What would be the worst judgment for you to experience: sores all over your body? Intense heat without air conditioning? Total darkness? Or great thirst with very little water? Why?

4. Read Revelation 15:3-4. What great and mighty deeds has God done in your life for which you will praise Him today? How appropriate is the song in this passage to your experience with God? Why?

5. Revelation 16 mentions the unrepentance of those who oppose God. What has God done in your life to help you repent? How receptive are you to admitting your guilt and repenting when you sin?

Scripture Passages:

Acts 17-21