FSBCS Audio Sermons

Do you need equipping, mending, and healing?

Acts 16:1-6 and Ephesians 4:11-16

Questions:

1. What stood out to you in the message?

2. Who is someone that played a key mentoring role in your life? Tell your group about this person and how they impacted your life.

3. What church roles do you see listed in Ephesians 4:11? Why did Paul include these roles and not others? How do these roles complete a good ministry team?

4. If you hired Paul to do an assessment of your life and its effectiveness in accomplishing Jesus’ mission for your life, what would he recommend you do? How would he go about changing things in your life?

5. Pastor Chad taught about how the words “to equip the saints” in Ephesians 4:12 actually has a connotation of “to mend”, not just “to equip”. Pastor Chad’s Big Idea, “Healing people lead people to healing who lead people to healing”, was based on this. How does your healing/mending play into your equipping of others?

6. How does Ephesians 4:15-16 support how you answered the previous question?

7. Pastor Chad concluded by saying that we are ALL called to ministry because Jesus’ healing in us is to be sharing with others in need of Jesus’ healing. What is Jesus calling you to do for Him? What person or ministry is He calling you to sharing healing with and in?

Scripture Passages: Mark 13-16, Luke 1-6

What really matters to Jesus?

Acts 15

Questions:

1. What stood out to you in the message?

2. What were some of the extra-biblical rules that you were expected to follow in church?

3. Pastor Chad taught about the three categories of Old Testament Law: Moral, Civil, and Ceremonial. Have you ever heard this before? How does this affect your understanding of Old Testament Law in light of Jesus’ fulfillment of that Law?

4. Why do people struggle to truly believe that one is saved by the grace of Jesus alone (versus Jesus + baptism, attendance, morality, etc.)? What “Jesus + ____” teachings have you heard taught? Why are they unbiblical?

5. What does Acts 15 teach us about what really matters to Jesus? How does that affect what we value and how we live our lives?

6. Pastor Chad explained some of the things that really matter to Jesus: grace, leading every generation to the life-changing hope of Jesus, loving God, loving others, and living out the Fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23). While this list is not exhaustive, how does your life reflect these values? What comes easy, and what is difficult?

Scripture Passages: Mark 1-12

Spread It & Leave the Rest to Him

Acts 13:4-12

Questions:

1. What stood out to you in the message?

2. What were you called as a child? Did you ever wish you had a different name? Why?

3. With what types of people are you most comfortable talking about Jesus? Why?

4. Pastor Chad spoke about how we are not responsible for how someone reacts to your telling them the Gospel or inviting to church, but it is God’s responsibility. Our only concern is that we are spreading the Gospel. How do you feel about that? Does it give you reassurance in your calling from Jesus? Why?

5. Have you ever been a part of someone coming to believe in Jesus as their Savior? Tell your group about it. If not, why do you think you have never experienced it?

6. Have you ever experienced opposition to sharing the Gospel? Tell you group about it. Have you considered how you would respond to opposition to sharing the Gospel with someone? What would you do?

7. Tell your group about someone that you feel God is leading you to invite to church or tell about Jesus. Have your group pray for you to have opportunities and courage to follow His leading in this.

 

Scripture Passages: Matthew 11-20

Who can you trust?

Acts 12 Questions:

1. What stood out to you in the message?

2. Put yourself in Peter’s shoes for a moment. How would you felt if an angel broke you out of jail? What would you have been thinking as it happened? What would you have been thinking after?

3. Why should we expect opposition and persecution when telling others about Jesus? How does this opposition and persecution advance the good news of Jesus in the world?

4. How does the account in Acts 12 demonstrate God's sovereignty? How does it give you confidence when you face opposition and persecution?

5. What role does prayer play in this account from the early church? What does it tell you about the importance of prayer in your own life?

6. Pastor Chad spoke about trusting God with every aspect of your life. What aspect of your life do you struggle to trust God in or with? Why? What can you do to correct that and trust Him more?

Scripture Passages: Revelation 18-22

The Unstoppable Force for you

Acts 11:1-18

Questions:

1. What stood out to you in the message?

2. Have you ever experienced an unstoppable force? Maybe something that forcibly pulled you or pushed you? Tell your group about it.

3. Have you ever had to trust in God’s sovereignty to take you through a situation in your life? Tell your group about it.

4. Why is Cornelius’ story so important to us? How did it affect where the movement of the church was going? How does it still affect the movement of the church today?

5. How do you explain the change in attitudes from Acts 11:2 to Acts 11:18? How does this connect to Matthew 28:18-20 and Acts 1:8?

6. How does God’s sovereignty give you comfort? Give you courage? Give you confidence? Explain.

7. Pastor Chad concluded the message by asking if you truly trusted God and His sovereignty. So, how do you struggle to trust God and His control in your life and in the world? How does that affect your faith? How can you overcome that lack of trust?

Scripture Passages: Revelation 13-17

Everyone, Everywhere Needs Jesus

Acts 10:1-43

Questions:

1. What stood out to you in the message?

2. Did you grow up in a childhood with a diversity of people around you, or were most of the people in your life like you and your family? Explain. How has this affected how you view the people in the world around you?

3. Why is the conversion of Cornelius and Jesus’ calling of Peter so vital to our salvation today? Explain.

4. What principles or beliefs do you hold that limit your ability or willingness to reach out to people who are “different” from you? What would it take to move beyond these limits?

5. What new(er) relationships has Jesus placed in your life recently? How have you influenced each other? What is Jesus’ call in these relationships? How do/can you accomplish that calling?

6. Pray for opportunities to welcome outsiders into the life-changing hope of Jesus.Scripture Passages:

Revelation 3-12

Love and hope in a scary world

Acts 9:1-28

Questions:

1. What stood out to you in the message?

2. Have you ever watched Professional Wrestling? Who was/is your favorite character? Why?

3. How did Jesus get your attention and show you that it was time to follow Him? Tell us your story.

4. Acts 9:7 says that there were men traveling with Saul, and that they were dumbfounded by what they heard. What do you think it was like to be one of Saul’s companions and experience this? What would you have thought if you were one of them? Why?

5. How do you think Saul felt when Jesus confronted him? What do you think he was thinking? Why?

6. Saul’s encounter with Jesus forced him to change everything about his life:  his career, his beliefs, his philosophies, his allegiances, his opinions, etc. We all have areas of our lives that we have not completely allowed the Holy Spirit to transform (Romans 12:2) within us. What are some areas that are most difficult to give to Jesus? Why?

7. What do you think it was like for Ananias and Barnabas to stick their noses out for Saul? Why would it have been so difficult for them to do this?

Scripture Passages:

1 John, 2 John, 3 John, Jude, Revelation 1-2

Can you tell someone about Jesus?

Questions:

1. What stood out to you in the message?

2. Have you ever needed someone to explain a concept or teaching that you struggled to understand? Tell your group about it. How did that person help you understand it?

3. How does this story highlight God's passion for the nations? Explain.

4. What does this account teach us about the need to understand and to explain the Bible to others? Pastor Chad said that we all should know the overall story of God’s Word so that we can explain it to someone. Could you do that in less than two minutes? Explain it to your group or to yourself. How can you be better prepared to tell this story? (Please look for the email that we will send out this week that contains resources for understanding the overall story of God’s Word, or go to namb.net/3circles)

5. Who has God been preparing for you to talk to about Jesus? Pray for them now.

6. Pastor Chad mentioned that you should be prepared to tell others about how Jesus has changed your life. Have you ever thought about your “testimony” (aka the story of what God has done to lead you to follow Him and worked through your life since that point)? Take a few minutes and write out your life story with God. How can you condense this into a two minute or less “testimony” that you could tell to someone?

7. God prepares the way for us to tell others about Jesus. How does this fact free you from fears when telling others about Jesus? How do you need to trust Him more in this?

Scripture Passages:

James 4-5, 1 Peter 1-5, 2 Peter 1-3