Alan Frow // Acts 4:31 -5:11 ESV

Community Group Questions:

1) What could be some common, practical examples of how we can demonstrate value for people over possessions?

2) Share of a time when you sensed the Holy Spirit guide you to give unto the Lord sacrificially.

3) Do you recall a time when you did something with mixed motives? How did the Holy Spirit bring this to your attention?

4) Pray that the Lord will strengthen our inner lives so that we will be people of integrity and not hypocrisy. 

Joel Baker // Acts 4: 23-31 CSB

1. Think of a time when you were mistreated for the sake of Christ. What happened? How did you respond to the person (or people) that mistreated you?

2. What is some other “cornerstone” that you might have built your life upon at some time in your past (or even now, if it applies)

3. What may be a circumstance when civil disobedience as a church may be not only acceptable but even required in order to honor God?

4. Take a moment to pray for boldness in standing our ground when it comes to subtle pressures and oppositions, and to pray for strength for churches in persecuted places.

Bonus Question: What about the life of the early church might have been helpful to turn the multitude towards Christ in such an exclusive claims of Christ in a pluralist culture?

Matt Henderson // Acts 3: 1-16 CSB

Community Group Questions:

1. Would people that know you well generally find you interruptible by people, or rather protective of your boundaries?

2. When was the last time you found yourself interrupted by the Spirit of God? What were the circumstances, what happened? Briefly share. 

3. What are some things or someone other than Christ that you might lean on for security? How does that kind of ‘security’ differ from when our security is in our Lord Jesus?

4. Pray that Jesus be the source of our unflinching security and for healings and restorations that may be necessary in your group in His name!

Andrew Scherer // Acts 2: 40-47 CSB

Alan Frow // Acts 2: 12-41 CSB

Community Group Questions:

1. From Peter’s sermon at Pentecost, preaching was multiplied by the Spirit through the people of God. It was often not from behind a pulpit. But the Jesus people preached wherever they went. Speak about a time that God used you to proclaim His Word in ordinary ways. (refer to Act 8:1)

2. When we are encouraged to ‘preach,’ what are some usual objections that arise in your heart?

3. Share about a time when you were “cut to the heart” from someone else preaching. What did you do?

4. Peter’s preaching answered the questions that the crowds are asking. What are some of the questions that your friends have? How can you listen more closely to them, and how does Jesus answer them?

5. Make a commitment to preach the gospel in team and pray for opportunities to do so.

1. If the Spirit truly fell on our group the way He did in Acts 2, what would change first? 

2. What step can you take this week to be bold in proclamation while walking in Spirit-empowered love?

3. What does being “clothed with power” look like in everyday life (home, work, school)?

4. How can the church live as evidence that the curse of "Babel-like" division has been broken?

5. Calling on witnesses: How has the Holy Spirit moved you during this week? Any testimonies?

6. Please take a moment to pray for each other’s in-filling of the Holy Spirit in his Revelation, and powerful Presence

Kevin Meish // Acts 1: 6-14 (CSB)

1. What are some things that people speculate about than being obedient to what is already in scripture?

2. What are some ways that you have relinquished control since you have been trusting the Lord more?

3. Through Jesus’ Ascension, He is now even more accessible than ever before. What are some ways you sense the Holy Spirit empowering you to partake in His mission? (Ie. Who would you invite to Alpha, for example?)

4. Close in prayer to the Ascended Lord Jesus by the Holy Spirit so that our worship will be true and that we become obedient participants of His will and mission in our lives. 

Alan Frow // Acts 1: 1-5 CSB

Community Group Questions:

1. What does it mean to you practically, to grasp the baton of Jesus’ message and mission and to pass it on to the next generation?

2. How does our gathering together help us to grow more certain of the faith we proclaim? Share insights from your own experience.

3. When was the last time you had waited on God with anticipation and expectancy? Whether it was as an individual or as a group, share the outcome of your waiting and God’s response.

4. Pray for a great Holy Spirit renewal at Southlands in each of our lives, that He would do it again, as He passes the baton unto us, to partake in His mission until His Kingdom come!

Andrew Scherer

Community Group Questions:

1. What is alluring about the promise of paradise through technology?

2. What do we notice God doing both in our lives and in Scripture to expand His Kingdom and to have us participate in this?

3. How might we become “the light of the world, the salt of the earth” and “aroma of Christ”?