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Q&A from the July 17, 2022 sermon, "As Yourself" with Matt Cabot and Bob Crossland

Q&A from the July 10, 2022 sermon, "Trusting God with Sex Pt. 2" with Matt Cabot and Bob Crossland

“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. 2 In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. 4 And you know the way to where I am going.” 5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” 6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7 If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.”

1.     How does it sound in our culture to say Jesus is the only way?  Are you comfortable thinking that and saying that?
2.     Do you ever celebrate and reflect on the claim that in the Father’s house there are many, many rooms?  How does this inform the exclusive claims of Jesus? 
3.     Does our culture hear more of the exclusivity or inclusivity of Jesus?  What are we communicating more? 
4.     How does it feel to be told Jesus is doing all the work of preparation?  Do you readily receive him as “the way”, or do you try to make your own way?
5.     Do you feel that heaven is wherever Jesus is, heaven is to be with Jesus?  Why or why not?
6.     What do you think of the statement, “for Jesus, heaven is to be with his people”?  Could Jesus really love you that much?

Q&A from the July 3, 2022 sermon, "Trusting God with Sex" with Matt Cabot and Bob Crossland

After saying these things, Jesus was troubled in his spirit, and testified, “Truly, truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me.” 22 The disciples looked at one another, uncertain of whom he spoke. 23 One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was reclining at table at Jesus’ side, 24 so Simon Peter motioned to him to ask Jesus of whom he was speaking. 25 So that disciple, leaning back against Jesus, said to him, “Lord, who is it?” 26 Jesus answered, “It is he to whom I will give this morsel of bread when I have dipped it.” So when he had dipped the morsel, he gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. 27 Then after he had taken the morsel, Satan entered into him. Jesus said to him, “What you are going to do, do quickly.” 28 Now no one at the table knew why he said this to him. 29 Some thought that, because Judas had the moneybag, Jesus was telling him, “Buy what we need for the feast,” or that he should give something to the poor. 30 So, after receiving the morsel of bread, he immediately went out. And it was night.

31 When he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him. 32 If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and glorify him at once. 33 Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You will seek me, and just as I said to the Jews, so now I also say to you, ‘Where I am going you cannot come.’ 34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. 35 By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

36 Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, where are you going?” Jesus answered him, “Where I am going you cannot follow me now, but you will follow afterward.” 37 Peter said to him, “Lord, why can I not follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.” 38 Jesus answered, “Will you lay down your life for me? Truly, truly, I say to you, the rooster will not crow till you have denied me three times.

1.     Making provision for the flesh opens the door to satanic, evil lies.  Have you seen this play out in your life or others?
2.     In what ways do we try to make excuses for sin?  What is at the heart of the sin in your life?  
3.     What kinds of sin in your life do you think you can take care of and conquer on your own?  
4.     What keeps you from taking your sin to Jesus?
5.     Does it ring true to you that God gives us a way out of our temptations?
6.     Do you believe that if you consistently bring your sin to Jesus he will work gospel maturity into your life over time?  

Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. 2 During supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him, 3 Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God, 4 rose from supper. He laid aside his outer garments, and taking a towel, tied it around his waist. 5 Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him. 6 He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, “Lord, do you wash my feet?” 7 Jesus answered him, “What I am doing you do not understand now, but afterward you will understand.” 8 Peter said to him, “You shall never wash my feet.” Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash you, you have no share with me.” 9 Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, not my feet only but also my hands and my head!” 10 Jesus said to him, “The one who has bathed does not need to wash, except for his feet, but is completely clean. And you are clean, but not every one of you.” 11 For he knew who was to betray him; that was why he said, “Not all of you are clean.”12 When he had washed their feet and put on his outer garments and resumed his place, he said to them, “Do you understand what I have done to you? 13 You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right, for so I am. 14 If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. 15 For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you. 16 Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him. 17 If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them. 18 I am not speaking of all of you; I know whom I have chosen. But the Scripture will be fulfilled, ‘He who ate my bread has lifted his heel against me.’ 19 I am telling you this now, before it takes place, that when it does take place you may believe that I am he. 20 Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever receives the one I send receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me.”

1.     What are the situations in which you like or expect to be served?  What are the situations in which being served makes you feel uncomfortable?
2.     Do you feel/see how social gravity flows up?
3.     Of the three following, which attitude do you have more of when it comes to letting Jesus wash you?  
“I’m ok, why do I need cleansing?”  
“I’m ashamed and embarrassed, and don’t want to be known.” 
“I’ll take care of it myself, then I’ll welcome Jesus.”  
4.     In what ways might you make yourself ‘greater’ than Jesus? 
5.     “Our church is only as strong as the love we show to the weakest link.”  Do you agree?  How are we doing in that department?
6.     Do you believe that serving in Jesus’ name will bring you the blessing of knowing Jesus more?  Is knowing Jesus more worth it to you?  

Q&A from the June 26, 2022 sermon, "Fully Forgiven" with Matt Cabot and Steven Chitty

Q&A from the June 19, 2022 sermon, "Mostly Alive/ Slightly Dead" with Matt Cabot and Steven Chitty

Part 2 of Revelation chapters 1-16 bible study recap with Rev. Bob Crossland

The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, If anyone makes a special vow to the Lord involving the valuation of persons, 3 then the valuation of a male from twenty years old up to sixty years old shall be fifty shekels of silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary. 4 If the person is a female, the valuation shall be thirty shekels. 8 And if someone is too poor to pay the valuation, then he shall be made to stand before the priest, and the priest shall value him; the priest shall value him according to what the vower can afford.9 “If the vow is an animal that may be offered as an offering to the Lord, all of it that he gives to the Lord is holy. 10 He shall not exchange it or make a substitute for it, good for bad, or bad for good; and if he does in fact substitute one animal for another, then both it and the substitute shall be holy.14 “When a man dedicates his house as a holy gift to the Lord, the priest shall value it as either good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall stand.16 “If a man dedicates to the Lord part of the land that is his possession, then the valuation shall be in proportion to its seed. A homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.26 “But a firstborn of animals, which as a firstborn belongs to the Lord, no man may dedicate; whether ox or sheep, it is the Lord’s.30 “Every tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is the Lord’s; it is holy to the Lord.34 These are the commandments that the Lord commanded Moses for the people of Israel on Mount Sinai.

1. What are some ways you find yourself wagering with God?
2. When have you vowed/committed to do something that you fulfilled it? When have you vowed and not fulfilled it?
3. What is your most common reaction when faced with your not keeping expectations or your commitments?
4. Is it hard to just be honest about your failure? 
5. Where do you need to repent - to God or others?
6. How can you lean on the Redeemer? how can you help others lean on the Redeemer?