Kettlebrook West Bend

Questions for Reflection/Discussion:

1. Verse 4 talks about being 'In Christ' - how do you know if you are 'In Christ?'

2. What is one area that God has empowered you to show the good news of Jesus in everyday life? (how has God changed your everyday life through the good news of Jesus?)

3. What is one area that God still needs to empower you to show the good news of Jesus in everyday life?

4. How might Jesus speak encouragement to you in the midst of that struggle? What would be 'good news?'

5. What are some of the supports that help you to continue to be pointed from 'be you, do you, for you' to 'Christ in you, Christ through you, for others?' Share as a group what that looks like in your everyday life?

6. How do you still desire to see the good news of Jesus bear fruit through your everyday life and the everyday life of our family at Kettlebrook?

Questions for Reflection/Discussion:

1. When you hear the word “father” what comes to mind (memories, images, experiences, feelings)? How would you describe your earthly father?

2. In what ways has your earthly father reflected (or not reflected) God the Father?

3. Read Colossians 1:1-6a. What can we learn from these verses about what Paul (& Timothy) believe about God?

4. When you think of “family” what comes to mind? How would you describe your family?

5. It was noted that sin is everything from “murder” to “meh”. In what ways might you be “meh” when it comes to God? Why do you think this is the case? What are the implications?

6. In what ways is the gospel good news for eternity? How is this possible?

7. If you are “in Christ”, in what ways are you currently engaged in family that is “in Christ”? If you are not engaged, what might it look like for you to take a step in that direction?

Questions 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?

Reflection Questions:

1.Looking back, what is one way that you have seen God at work in your own heart and life?

2. Looking ahead, what is one step you can take to become less, and for Jesus to become greater in your life?

Questions Discussion:

1. As you look back over your journey of faith so far in 2019, what milestones are most prominent? What have been some recent victories? Recent struggles? If you are struggling to come up with milestones, why do you think that is?

2. As you look ahead and think about your journey of faith, what are you most excited about and why? What are you anxious about and why?

3. Read John 10:40-42. What do we learn about the ministry of John the Baptist that might inform our own ministry as individuals and as a family? What was the outcome in verse 42?

4. What is one way that you might seek to speak truth about Jesus and point others to Jesus (as John the Baptist did) in your own life in this next week/month/year?

Questions for Reflection/Discussion:

1. Has anyone ever stood in the way of your understanding of, or relationship with God? What was that like for you?

2. In what ways might you have done something like this in someone else’s life?

3. Read Acts chapter 11. In this chapter, racism, legalism, and consumerism seek to keep the gospel from others. In what ways have these three things influenced your faith journey?

4. Which of the above observations from this chapter are the most inspiring to you? Convicting? Why?

5. In what ways did Jesus model these observations for us when He walked the earth?

6. In what ways could you apply these observations in your own home and life this week?

Questions for Reflection/ Discussion:

1) What is the inherent power within us? Who has given us this power?

2) Where in your coming to faith with Jesus have you seen Him show you His power?

3) What 1 step should you take from this message to get in touch with the power of the Holy Spirit dwelling in you?