Application Questions:

1. What should we say if someone asks if we are religious?

2. Why do you think that Jesus asked the man at the pool if he wanted to be healed?

3. How do you define legalism?

4. What is the problem with legalism?

5. How would you describe the danger of self-preservation?

Application Questions:

1. What does "embrace the burdens that you carry" mean to you?

2. What should we do when our situation worsens after our prayers?

3. What is the difference between looking at God through my circumstances, rather than looking at my circumstances through God?

4. What helps you when you feel that your circumstances are out of control?

5. How can we become like Habakkuk that we are able to rejoice in the Lord, even though "the fig tree should not blossom, and there be no fruit on the vines"?

Application Questions:

1. Put the interaction between Philip and Nathanael in your own words. What do you love about Philip's response to Nathanael?

2. Read the first five verses of John 1. What is meaningful to you about this passage?

3. There is a residue of the creative power of the Word of God in our own words, in our own speech. How do we use this power to build? To destroy?

4. Why is it so difficult for the world to recognize and receive the true light that gives light to everyone?

5. As a witness, how do we help the world to recognize and receive this Word of God?