If we’re to know PEACE and experience the life for which we’re created we must, must, MUST submit to three laws:
- Crisis: The Fickle Human Condition
- Intervention: The Faithful Intercessor
- Salvation: The Free Gift of God
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Discussion Questions
Before questions, attempt to give the group a bit of a summary of the main points of the sermon and then choose a few questions that fit your group’s needs and style. We don’t intend for you to use all of these. Three to five questions may be a good number.
- What sets the Israelite's destructive path in motion?
- How have you seen this play out in your own life?
- Steady life versus an aligned life: In what ways are you drawn to a steady life rather than an aligned life?
- The Israelites had a pre-determined vision of what deliverance would look like that did not align with Christ's vision for deliverance of all humanity. Reflect and share how your own journey and understanding of God's vision for deliverance has evolved in your life.
- We want closure and we want it yesterday. We need to learn to wait on the questions that we don't have answer to. Where in your life, or with what question, do you need to "let the mystery ripen?"
- This Scripture illustrates incredibly well that better than planning is to simply follow. Where in your life are you being called to "simply follow?"
- We were made for a life of service. Following the pattern of Christ, we are called to pour ourselves out for one another. Unfortunately, we are often hindered from entering this life either through shame or self-absorption. What in your life is hindering you from living a life of more service?
- Seeing is the first step to compassion. And compassion is the precursor to stepping in action.
- Who are you "seeing?"
- Who are you having compassion for?
- From that compassion, how are you stepping in?
- We are given access to God for the sake of advocacy, not individualism. This is a tough truth for people who come from a nation that thrives on the freedom of individualism.
- What comes up for you when you hear/read this truth statement?
- Recognizing this truth, who are you being invited to advocate for?
- Are you in alignment? If not, do the exercises! Revisit the Rule of Life and identify one practice you want to integrate this month.