Audio recording of the Partners' Meeting from Feb. 16th, 2025. 

This is the sixth sermon in our "Gospel Culture: Living Out our Church Values" series.

SERMON OUTLINE:

1. Holiness: Who has it and who doesn’t.

2. Holiness: A framework for understanding.

3. Holiness: Why it matters and how to grow in it.

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:

• How do you typically feel when you hear Christians talking about holiness? How does our culture respond to the topic of holiness? Why?
• Which aspect of the New Testament’s teaching on holiness or “living worthy” are you most challenged by? Encouraged by?
• Are we a holy church? How can we cultivate a deeper culture of this kind of holiness?

SERMON OUTLINE:

1: Authority (Revelation 3:14)

2: Diagnosis (Revelation 3:15-17)

3: Remedy (Revelation 3:18, Isaiah 55:1-3)

4: Affectionate call of a loving Christ (Revelation 3:19-22)

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:

• What are some of the ways the American church has become like Laodicea?
• Are there things that you personally have begun to trust in over Christ?
• How can we be refreshing and healing to our culture? Answer specifically in terms of your spheres of influence.

This is the fifth sermon in our "Gospel Culture: Living Out our Church Values" series.

SERMON OUTLINE:

1. The appeal of honesty

2. The problem of honesty

3. The power of honesty

4. The practice of honesty

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:

• When do you find it hardest to be yourself or to be vulnerable? When are you most able to be real?
• In your own words, how is our culture’s obsession with “authenticity” different from biblical “honesty”?
• Are we an honest church? How can we cultivate a deeper culture of this kind of honesty?

This is the fourth sermon in our "Gospel Culture: Living Out our Church Values" series.

This is the third sermon in our "Gospel Culture: Living Out our Church Values" series.

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:

• Let your table know a time you learned something from a friend, spouse, or peer that was very helpful to you.  
• What are some ways that we can be others-centered and care for one another well?  What makes this hard in our culture? 
• Pray for each other at your table that you will grow in humility and others-centeredness. 

This is the second sermon in our "Gospel Culture: Living Out our Church Values" series.

SERMON OUTLINE:

1: What is prayer?

2: What does prayer accomplish?

3: How do we pray?

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:

• How often do you pray?
• What prompts or causes you to pray?
• What questions do you have about prayer?
• Are we a praying church?

This is the first sermon in our "Gospel Culture: Living Out our Church Values" series.

SERMON OUTLINE:

1: What characterizes Jesus’ ministry? (Mt. 9:35)

2: What motivates Jesus’ ministry? (Mt. 9:36)

3: Who implements Jesus’ ministry? (Mt. 9:37-38)

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:

• Which of the aspects of Jesus’ ministry (Head, Heart, Hands) are you most excited about? Which do you most struggle with?
• What does brokenness look like in your neighborhood? How can our church help bring healing?
• Have a volunteer at your table pray for us to have compassionate hearts and for laborers to be sent into the fields.

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:

• What difficulty or loss are you grieving from this last year? How can you see Jesus working in the midst of that?
• What from this last year do you need to leave behind? What needs to die in your life for God to do something new and better?
• Who is God putting on your heart that needs to know the love of Jesus? How will you be intentional to share Good News this upcoming year?
• What does radical obedience to Jesus look like this upcoming year? Where is He calling you to step into more intentional ministry?