missio Dei: Falcon

Title: What’s the Point…Of Our Friendships?

Scripture Reading: Proverbs 17:17, 18:24, 27:5-6, 27:9-10, 27:17. (One or two slides if possible?)

Sermon Outline:

1. Friendship: 4 reasons we need it.

2. Friendship: 5 things it isn’t.

3. Friendship: 6 things it is.

Discussion:

• What, in your experience, makes friendship difficult?
• What have been some key characteristics of godly friendships you have experienced?
• How do you need to mature in order to become a better friend? How does Jesus demonstrate that maturity to you already?

What’s the Point… Of Our Bodies?

Scripture reading: 1 Corinthians 15:35-44

Discussion:

1. What is your “theology of the body?” Do you find places where you have slipped into false beliefs about the body and health? 
2. What are some ways that you’ve become sedentary in your love and serving? How does Christ’s love and bodily serving encourage you to love and serve differently?

Supporting Texts: (in order of use) 

Genesis 1:26-27, Psalm 8:5-8, Genesis 3:16, 19, Romans 6:23a, Genesis 3:22, Psalm 139:16, Psalm 56:8, 1 Corinthians 15:35-44, Psalm 16:11, Revelation 21:4, 1 Peter 2:24, 1 Corinthians 10:31, 1 Timothy 6:18, Titus 2:7a, Hebrews 10:24-25

What’s the Point…Of Our Vocations?

(10-11-26)

Title: What’s the Point…Of Our Vocations?

Scripture Reading: Col. 3:22-4:1.

Sermon Outline:

1. The importance and appeal of work (Genesis 1-2).

2. The disillusionment of work (Genesis 3:17-19).

3. The redemption of work (Ephesians 6:5-9).

Discussion:

• What is your vocation? How does your identity in Christ shape your view of your vocation?
• What are some ways you can work for the wrong boss? What does that look like for you personally?
• How does viewing Jesus as your boss enable you to do your work differently?

Supporting texts: (in order of use)

Genesis 2:1-2, 1:27-28, 2:15, Proverbs 10:4, 12:11, 14:23, Isaiah 2:4, Revelation 22:3, Genesis 3:17-19, Ecclesiastes 2:18-23, Ephesians 6:5-7, 6:8, Hebrews 6:10, Ephesians 6:9, Romans 5:8, 8:31-32. 

Title: What’s the Point…Of Our Parenting?

Scripture Reading: Deut. 6:4-9.

Sermon Outline:

1. Why does the topic of parenting matter…for everyone?

2. What’s the point of our parenting?

3. How do we accomplish this practically?

4: What do we do when it doesn’t go according to plan?

Discussion:

• How were you formed as a child? What were some of the most helpful or least helpful things?
• Which of the stages of discipleship in Deuteronomy 6:4-9 do you most need to grow in?
• Reflecting on the stage of life you are in, what does taking a more active role in discipling the next generation look like? What tangible steps can you take this week to do so?

Supporting Texts: (in order of use)

Mark 10:14, 1 Samuel 2:12, Psalm 127:3-5, Mark 10:29-30, 1 Corinthians 4:15-16, 3 John 1:4, Proverbs 17:6, Psalm 71:17-18, Deuteronomy 6:4-9, 6:4-6, Psalm 103:13, Deuteronomy 6:4-6, 7-9, Proverbs 22:6, 13:24, Philippians 1:6

Scripture Reading: Gen. 2:18-25.

Sermon Outline:

1. What’s the point of our singleness?

2. What’s the point of our marriages?

3. What’s the point of our sexuality?

Discussion:

• After reflecting on the Scripture that was referenced today, how would you describe the purpose of singleness in your own words? The purpose of marriage? The purpose of sexuality?
• In what ways does our culture push non-biblical purposes of these three areas? 
• In what ways does the American church sometimes push non-biblical purposes of these three areas?
• What is God convicting you that needs to change in your own life in response to this teaching?
• Homework: Prayerfully write out a personal purpose statement for your singleness or marriage.

Supporting texts: (in order used) 

Singleness: 1 Corinthians 7:7, 12:7, 7:32-35

Marriage: Revelation 19:6-7, Ephesians 5:31-32, 5:21-30, Genesis 2:24-25

Sexuality: 1 Corinthians 6:18-20, 7:5, Luke 9:23, Revelation 7:14b

Scripture Reading: 1 Pet. 2:9-12.

Sermon Outline:

1. Begin by asking the right questions.

2. Who is the Church?

3. What is the purpose of the Church?

4: How can the Church fulfill it’s purpose?

Discussion:

• In your own words, how would you answer the question, “What’s the point of Church?”  
• How would you self-describe your identity? Answer with your initial and honest assessment! How does that answer impact how you live Monday-Saturday? How does that impact how you view Church?
• What habits can we engage to help us remember our identity as God’s people?
• What does it look like practically to live for God’s glory?

Scripture reading : Galatians 5:13-26

Outline: 

Galatians 5: 13a - A Warning

Galatians 5: 13b-14 - A Truth

Galatians 5: 15 - A Stark Reality 

Discussion:

1. Where are you at constant opposition with the Spirit and your flesh? What are you doing to see the flesh overcome?
2. What does this text teach you about the character of Christ? How does the fruit of the Spirit reflect that?

Encouragement:

Find a DC, group of friends, or accountability partner that you can confess sins with. Confess your battles between the Spirit and your flesh. Hear their struggles. Pray openly and honestly together and separately for yourselves and for each other. Ask how you can serve each other in love. Pursue that accountability of confession, prayer, and check up with each other. Glory in the love of our Savior together! 

Scripture Reading: Lk. 18:9-17.

Sermon Outline:

1. Do you feel like you’re missing something? (Lk. 18:18-23)

2. Do you wonder who can be saved? (Lk. 18:24-27)

3. Do you believe Jesus is worth it? (Lk. 18:28-30)

Discussion:

• What is most likely to make you anxious or angry? How does this show your own tendency toward self-righteousness?  
• What has the tendency to “fill your hands”? How might that be preventing Jesus from filling your heart?
• How do you personally approach the discipline of generosity? How can you grow in this area?

Sermon Outline:

1. A heart for children: To hinder, help, or heal (Lk. 18:15-16).

2. Why a heart for children matters (Lk. 18:17).

Discussion:

• As you reflect on the three heart postures reflected in this passage (To hinder, help, and heal), when are you most likely to demonstrate each one? How does this passage convict and encourage you?
• How can our church grow in helping children come to Jesus? 
• How can our church grow in helping un-churched people come to Jesus?

Outline: 

Luke 18:9: The Setup

Luke 18:10-13: Two Very Different Men

Luke 18:14: The Declaration 

Discussion: 

1. Have you been justified by Christ? How you truly prayed like the Tax Collector, “God, be merciful to me, a sinner?”
2. In what ways do you find yourself like the Pharisee? The Tax Collector? In what ways are you tempted to lean on your own righteousness?

Encouragement:

Confess your self righteousness to Christ. Pray that he will remind you of his goodness and mercy. His forgiveness. Confess with your friends or family those places where you are tempted into self righteousness and ask them to hold you accountable! Thank God for the opportunity to come to Him and say, “God, be merciful to me, a sinner!”