Kettlebrook West Bend

Questions for Reflection/Discussion:

1. What stuck out to you?

2. What further questions does it raise?

3. What does it say about Jesus?

4. How will you respond personally?

5. With whom / how can you share this?

Questions for Reflection/Discussion:

Here are 3 reminders in the Book of Romans to encourage, strengthen and challenge us to continue on this vision which God has called us to:

1) The Good News

Think about your own journey, when you first heard and responded to the Good news of Jesus Christ.

How passionate are you about sharing the Gospel?

Do you have compassion for those who are unreached?

2) Calling

How much of a priority is making disciples in your life?

3) Gifts

What are your gifts? How can you use your gifts to support the work of reaching the unreached?

Questions for Reflection/Discussion:

1. What was your experience with conflict growing up? How have these experiences shaped the way that you approach conflict today?

2. Read Matthew 7:1-5. How should these words shape our approach to conflict?

3. Read Matthew 18:15-17. What steps do you see Jesus outlining? What is the goal of the process?

4. Why is it easier to confide in the wrong person instead of going to the person we have an offense with? Why is there a temptation to draw in a third party?

5. “Winning the conflict” versus “winning your brother/sister” are radically different approaches to conflict. How might you be guilty of trying to “win” a conflict in your life instead of winning a brother/sister? Who in your life might need to be “won” back in your life through radical, self-sacrificing reconciliation?

6. Re-read the letter that Paul wrote to Philemon. What is the significance of verse 18? Where did Paul learn this approach from? What can we learn from this in our own lives?

7. Where in your life can you be a radical, self-sacrificing reconciler in the name of Jesus this week at work, in your family, neighborhood, at school, etc.?

Questions for Reflection/Discussion:

1. What was your experience with conflict growing up? How have these experiences shaped the way that you approach conflict today?

2. It was said this morning that “Hurt people hurt people.” Give an example of when this has been true of someone else hurting you in your life. Give an example of when you have been guilty of this yourself.

3. When it comes to conflict, would you classify your approach as tending more towards avoiding or attacking? Why do you think this is this the case?

4. Read Paul’s letter to Philemon. In what ways do you see Paul humbling himself (and Onesimus) and honoring Philemon as he approaches him? What can we learn from Paul’s approach and apply in conflict in our own lives?

5. What might be one or two wounds that you bring into conflict with you from the past (or the present)? How might you appeal to Jesus with respect to these wounds and allow Him to begin healing you?

6. It was mentioned that the word translated as “appeal” comes from two Greek words that mean “to call” & “to the side of”. Who in your life do you need to appeal to and call to your side this week for the sake of reconciliation? How might you begin by humbling yourself and honoring the other?

Questions for Reflection/Discussion:

1. Did you ever have or make a fort as a child? If so, what do you remember most about making forts?

2. What broader stories have influenced how you see the story of your own life?

3. Read Psalm 103:19-22. What sticks out to you as you read this text?

4. In Psalm 103, David describes God as Forgiving, Compassionate, Father, and King. Which of these four specific characteristics resonate most with you and why? Do you struggle with any? Why or why not?

5. One of the downsides of sitting on our own thrones is the burden that goes with it. What might the stresses and pressures in your life reveal to you?

6. When we sit on the throne of our own life, we are also can see others as a threat to us. Where/how might this be the case in your own life?

7. Are there areas of your own life that you have built a fort around that you want to be sovereign over instead of God? If so, what areas and why? How might Jesus re-frame this area of life for you? What specifically could you do about it this week?

Questions for Reflection/Discussion:

1. What stuck out to you?

2. What further questions does it raise?

3. What does it say about Jesus?

4. How will you respond personally?

5. With whom / how can you share this?

Questions for Reflection?

When is a time you have experience compassion from someone?

What did their compassion make you feel?

In what ways do you struggle to believe God is compassionate?

Where in your life are you experiencing the compassion of God?

What areas are you allowing God to carry in your life? What areas are you resistant? Why?

Who is God calling you to show compassion (suffer with) today? How will you tangibly carry this out this week?

Questions for Reflection/Discussion:

1. How would you fill in the blank to this statement: “God is __________”? What thoughts, information and experiences have most influenced your response?

2. Read the first 5 verses of Psalm 103. What posture does David begin with? Why do you think this is the case? What is your typical posture towards God? Why do you think this is the case?

3. In Psalm 103, David describes God’s character as Forgiver, Healer, Redeemer, Crowner, Satisfier and Renewer. Which of these character traits do you most attribute to God and why? Which of these might you struggle to attribute to God and why?

4. What, according to Scripture, is Jesus’s role in demonstrating the above five attributes of God?

5. What is one way that you might kneel before/praise/remember God today?

Questions for Discussion:

1. If you have not done so already, please take the gifts survey.

2. What are some things that you are passionate about? Gifted in?

3. What experiences (sufferings, successes, failures, etc.) has God used to grow you? In what ways might these experiences be used to point others to Jesus? To help build up others in the family of faith? Others outside the family of faith?

4. What barriers might you be facing with respect to bearing fruit in every way and in every good work through Jesus?

5. Read Colossians 1:9-14. In verse 12 Paul/Timothy bring up an “inheritance” that Jesus has qualified His followers for a share in. What do you think this inheritance consists of? If you follow Jesus, in what ways are you stewarding this inheritance now?

6. What next steps might you take this week to bless God, the body of Christ, and the world in every way and every good work?

Questions for Reflection/Discussion:

1. What stuck out to you?

2. What further questions does it raise?

3. What does it say about Jesus?

4. How will you respond personally?

5. With whom / how can you share this?