FSBCS Audio Sermons

Questions:

1. What stood out to you in the message?

2. What is the best costume you have ever worn? Why?

3. Describe the various “characters” that arise in Revelation chapters 12, 13, and 14. What does each one represent?

4. How does the Beast from the Sea and the Beast from the Land (Revelation 13) influence the world to follow them? How are government and religion connected by these two beasts?

5. How can we discern deceitful governments and religions?

Scripture Passages: Acts 7-11

Questions:

1. What stood out to you in the message?

2. When has God led you into a journey that you wouldn’t have opted to go on yourself? What happened?

3. The two witnesses of Revelation 11 are persecuted by “the beast” and eventually killed. What is the most difficult aspect of persecution? Where do you experience persecution? Work? School? Home?

4. How does Revelation 11:15-19 give you hope?

5. Revelation 11:18 speaks about the reward of the faithful. How often do we as Christians think about eternal life and heaven in terms of reward? What is the nature of our reward?

6. Verse 18 speaks of the blessings to those who follow God and the Ark in verse 19 represents justice. How can the cross be both blessing and justice? Why is this true?

Scripture Passages:

Acts 1-6

Questions:

1. What stood out to you in the message?

2. Who was one of your fictional heroes when you were a child? Why?

3. Why is there silence in Revelation 8:1?

4. What do you think is happening in Revelation 9:20-21? Why?

5. In chapter 10, John eats a scroll that makes his “stomach bitter,” but in his mouth “will be sweet as honey.” How can the Word of God or Revelation of God be both bitter and sweet?

6. How has God’s mercy and grace sustained you through this life?

7. How do you feel and what do you think when you read this account of stranger-than-fiction events? What is the “who” and “why” behind what we read in Revelation?

Scripture Passages: John 18-21

Questions:

1. What stood out to you in the message?

2. What is the most memorable storm you have ever been in? What happened?

3. In Revelation 4, where is John seeing what takes place? How would you feel if you were in John’s shoes?

4. Imagine yourself in this scene. What do you see? Hear? Feel? How does this make you feel about God?

5. Who is on the throne? Who are the other “beings” around the throne? What is the importance of each of these?

6. What aspect of God’s creation best demonstrates God’s glory and power to you? Why?

7. How does Revelation 4 make you want to worship and adore God more?

 

Scripture Passages: Luke 22-24, John 1-2

Questions:

 

1. What stood out to you in the message?

2. If you could invite any famous person to dinner, whom would you ask? Why?

3. How would you describe Jesus as He portrays Himself in these “7 Letters” to the churches?

4. What do you think it would be like to eat dinner with Jesus? What conversations do you think you would have?

5. What is Jesus waiting for at the door of your life?

6. What is keeping your from letting Jesus in to dine with you?

 

Scripture Passages: Luke 17-21

Questions:

1. What stood out to you in the message?

2. Name a team who had a great reputation which was ruined by a poor performance. How did that impact the team’s reputation?

3. What is the contrast between reputation and reality in Sardis (Rev. 3:2)? What do you think this contrast means?

4. What is the only hope for the survival of the church in Sardis (Rev. 3:3-4)?

5. What does today’s church need to “Wake up!” from?

6. If Jesus addressed this wake up call to you, what would He want you to strengthen?

Scripture Passages: Luke 1-6

Questions:

1. What stood out to you in the message?

2. As a teenager and young adult, what person or group influenced you the most? How?

3. Pastor Chad talked about how Jesus condemns a specific person that is in the church in Thyatira (aka “Jezebel”) and connected this Jesus’ warnings against “wolves in sheep’s clothing”. What can be the dangers of allowing an ungodly person or false teacher to remain in a church?

4. Who or what “Jezebel’s” do you see in the Church today? What teachings and temptations should today’s follower of Jesus speak out against?

5. Which of the qualities in Revelation 2:19 apply to you this week? Why?

6. What are you “overcoming” (verse 26) right now in your life?

7. What do you appreciate most about the promise in verses 26-27?

 

Scripture Passages: Mark 13-16

Questions:

1. What stood out to you in the message?

2. Have you ever eaten something that was tainted with something disgusting, or eaten something that had gone bad? What was your reaction to it?

3. What do you think the Christians in Pergamum are having to deal with (Rev. 2:13)?

4. What are their strengths and temptations?

5. Which do you think is easier to endure: persecution by enemies for your faith OR the seduction to conform to the sins of the culture? Why?

6. What cultural influences distract you the most from living for Jesus? How subtle are these influences? How direct?

7. What weapons has Jesus given you to battle these influences?

 

Scripture Passages: Mark 3-7

Questions:

1. What stood out to you in the message?

2. If you were rich, what would you do differently? What in your life would stay the same?

3. What challenges is the church in Smyrna facing?

4. How can they be both rich and poor?

5. In what ways do you feel spiritually poor? And spiritually rich?

6. How does "persecution promote proclamation" (Chad's Big Idea)?

7. What does Jesus’ words to the is church teach us about suffering for Him?

Scripture Passages: Matthew 26-28, Mark 1-2