Ryan Moffat 2 Corinthians 15:11-21

1.What did God say to you through the sermon this week?

2. As you evaluate your motivation for ministry, what do you see? What motivates you to enter into God’s mission?

3. What’s keeping you from being an ambassador for Christ and announcing the good news that sins can be forgiven and people can have a new life (2 Corinthians 5:17)?

4. What would Sisters look like if we had 500-700 people actively, joyfully, lovingly, and wisely looking to “persuade” others into the Kingdom of God? Do you pray for that, long for that, and work towards that?

Dustin Smith Ephesians 5:8

1. How have you interpreted being “the light” in following Jesus prior to this morning? Has that been challenged?

2. If being the light is dependent on our union with Christ, what does it look like for you to be sustained by Christ?

3. What is your greatest challenge in being sustained by Jesus?

4. Have you ever experienced freedom in confessing sin? What did that do to you?

5. If you haven’t, take time now to read Romans 5:8 - consider God’s delight in you - that you may be urgent to confess the hidden areas of your life.

Steve Stratos 1 PETER 2:4,5,9

QUESTIONS:

1. Where have you experienced wanting to fit in?

2. Where has this desire created problems for you?

3. God has given you access into His presence by linking you with the greatest High Priest through faith. What are the benefits?

4. What aspect of priesthood do you most celebrate?

5. What spiritual sacrifices do you bring to God?

6. What does it mean to be holy?

Ryan Moffat 1 Timothy 3:15

Questions:

#1- When you see Paul push together these two metaphors (Family and institutional metaphors) why do you think that is significant?

#2- What metaphor are you more naturally drawn to (family/relational vs. institutional/doctrinal)? Why are you more drawn to that one? How does the other metaphor impact your thinking?

#3- How can you (and our Church) better live out being a healthy family? What would that look like?

#4- How can you (and our Church) better live out institutional stability and doctrinal faithfulness? What would compromise look like? How has doctrinal drift impacted the church?

#5- What is the Holy Spirit calling you to do to live out the vision of 1 Timothy 3:15?

Mark Seekins Ephesians 2:11-22

1. So which type of person are you? Do you wallow in the past? Look on it too fondly? Or do you focus more on the present or future?

2. What do you need to remember about your former self? Before Christ.

3. How will that increase your gratitude and obedience to God now and in the future? What does it mean to you that Christ now defines you?

4. What does it mean to you that you are now in Christ…part of something bigger? One new body in Christ. Do you see your part in the church this way?

5. How do we use our “privilege” in Christ to divide rather than unify?

6. When you consider the language of the temple (Ephesians 2:19-22), How can you see what you are becoming? What our church is becoming?

7. Have you thought much about how this “family” is forever? What implications does that have for how you participate in and interact with the body of Christ?

8. In response to this sermon, what is a strategic step you will take this week as part of the Temple of the Holy Spirit?

9. How can your small group pray for you?

Steve Stratos 1 Corinthians 12:12-31 Romans 12:9-21

1. How does the metaphor of “The Body of Christ” lived out represent incarnational Christianity and the God/Man Jesus Christ?

2. What does “Unity and Diversity” mean to you and how does it demonstrate itself in “the Body of Christ?”

3. What does Paul mean when he says We cannot say, ”I don’t need you?” Why is it important?

4. Where does this kind of relational community first show up? What does it tell us about God?

5. What part of the Body of Christ do you most relate to and why?

Ryan Moffat Matthew 16:18, Ephesians 5:32

1- Why does the new testament communicate so much about the Church (and the people of God, the Kingdom of God) in metaphor? From a narrative perspective what does narrative do that discourse (lists, bullet points, etc) cannot do?

2- When you look at the list of metaphors in the new testament which ones are most interesting and curious to you? Bride of Christ Body of Christ Branches of the Vine Temple of the Spirit People of God Royal Priesthood Flock of God Household of God Salt of the Earth Light of the World Ambassadors of Christ Army of God Harvest/Botanical Metaphor

3- What area of SCC needs your unique contribution? What would it look like to activate your giftings and ministry skills in 2026?

4- What else did the Spirit say to you through the sermon?

Revelation 21:1-6; 22:1-5

Steve Stratos

1. How would you describe a transcendent hope?

2. Why is the resurrection of Jesus so important to this transcendent hope?

3. What aspect of the description of this hope in Revelation 21 means the most to you?

4. What does it mean to you to be thirsty?

5. Who can you share this hope with this week?

1 Peter 1:3-5 Mark Seekins

1. Currently, what is one of your biggest worries? What was one of your biggest worries 10 years ago?

2. What was your most important takeaway from Sunday's sermon?

3. In what ways does God’s mercy show up in your life?

4. How does the blessing of mercy give you strength to withstand the trials of life? When others show you mercy, how does it strengthen you and your faith?

5. Describe how a living hope is a blessing in your life. How does this living hope compare to other things that people hope in? Does this reality give you strength to withstand trials and persecution in this world?

6. 1 Peter is written to Christians who are undergoing severe persecution because of their faith. How do you think the lessons in this sermon translate into real life for these first century Christians? How does it help you live your Christian life?

7. In response to this sermon, what is a strategic step you will take this week? How can your small group pray for you?

Steve Stratos Hebrews 10:19-25

1. What kind of community outside the church have you experienced? What were the highlights?

2. How would you describe the nature of the church Theologically?

3. Where have you been disappointed in Church community?…encouraged?

4. Where do you need help experiencing the purpose of a one another engagement? Who can you ask for help?

5. What does a confessing community look like to you?