Sermon Application

I encourage you to read Luke 12:22-24 together and try to walk through the main points of the sermon. The mental arguments that Jesus gives us to fight against being anxious are:

1. Argument from greater to lesser (God created your body. He can sustain and nourish the body which He has created).

2. Argument from lesser to greater (He cares for birds and flowers and you are of more value than they are. Won't God care for you).

3. Argument from the personal Fatherhood of God towards you. He is YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER. Have members fill this one out in some detail!

4. Argument from the futility of anxiety. We can't solve the problem of our worry-anxiety through being worried and anxious.

Here are a few questions to consider asking from here:

1. Which of these "arguments" helps you the most? Why that argument?

2. What are the specific troubles, anxieties, worries that are currently plaguing you? Describe what it's like to stand in your shoes in the midst of those troubles. How might these mental arguments help in those real areas?

3. What places/ways are you prone to have small/weak faith? What about those situations make it difficult in the moment to trust in the care of your Heavenly Father? What would it look like (consist of) to entrust those things to God's care? What is keeping you from entrusting them to God?

4. How will you seek this week to enlarge your faith? What is your plan for growing your faith?

Hope these spark many helpful conversations together!