IBC Richmond

APPLICATION QUESTIONS:
• What is weakness? How would you identify a person as weak?
• Recall a time of personal weakness and share how someone helped you.
• Where does a spiritual desire to help the weak originate? How can you cultivate this desire?
• What is the church’s responsibility to help the weak in the church and in society?

APPLICATION QUESTIONS:
• What does it mean to be fainthearted? How have you experienced this recently?
• What is gospel-defined hope?
• Describe the church member's responsibility to "encourage the fainthearted."
• How should Christians view pain (physical or emotional)? What biblical examples of pain inform your conclusions?

APPLICATION QUESTIONS:
• Who “admonishes” who according to 1 Thessalonians 5:14?
• What does it mean to admonish? Have you given it or received it lately?
• Share examples of idleness.
• In what regular ways can a church “admonish the idle”?

APPLICATION QUESTIONS:
• To what "day" is Amos referring (Amos 9:11, 13)?
• What specific words in Amos 9:11-15 refer to restoration? Are the fulfillments figurative or literal?
• Since verse 13 speaks of God’s abundant blessings, list ways in God his blessed you abundantly.
• Since God preserves a remnant of Israel today, how should Christians value Israel as a people group and as a nation?

Resurrection Sunday!

APPLICATION QUESTIONS:
• What is an altar and what does it represent?
• How do you want to be perceived? Since no one can hide from God (Amos 9:2-4), how does God perceive you?
• Does it comfort or scare you that God sees all things (Amos 9:8)? Why?
• Amos 9:8 says, “I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, declares the Lord”. What does that tell you about God’s character?

APPLICATION QUESTIONS:
• Do you work well with a deadline? Why or why not?
• What advantage is there in Scripture warning of looming judgment?
• Read the account of Israel’s dishonest (vs. 4-6). How can you grow in honesty?
• Is there a famine for God’s Word today? Support your conclusion with examples.

APPLICATION QUESTIONS:
• What does “relent” mean? How can God, who is immutable, change his mind?
• Looking at Amos 7, how effective is prayer?
• What is an appropriate balance between interceding for spiritual needs and health needs?
• List simple ways to pray for forgiveness and against wickedness.

We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. - Romans 6:4

APPLICATION QUESTIONS:
• What is the Day of the Lord? Consider passages such as Amos 5:18; Joel 2; Isaiah 13:6, 9; 1 Thess. 5:1-11; 2 Thess. 2:2; 2 Peter 3:10.
• What does it mean to worship God? Why did God reject Israel’s worship (Amos 5:21-27)?
• When is "taking it easy” a bad thing (Amos 6:1)? How does a Christian balance leisure time with work, family, and church?
• If you rid your schedule of one small leisure item, what would it be? Replace it with focused time on others and the future.