1 Corinthians 13:11; Hebrews 5:11-14
Richard Dahlstrom, Senior Pastor, www.spiritsoulbody.org
This week we look at six spiritual developmental phases:
- Reconciliation
- Soul Deliverance
- Body Transformation
- Salvation Changes Our Sense of Purpose
- Salvation Changes Our Relationship to Systems
- Salvation Changes Our Relationship to Creation
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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 where you doing the day you turned 21 years old?
Consider the vision here at Bethany Green Lake in the coming year for the church to be a place where we receive the vision, resources, courage and support to the do the work of transformation.
What role do you play as part of the church in implementing the four facets of this vision?
How does this look different (or not) with corporation worship online?
Read: 1 Corinthians 13:11; Hebrews 5:11-14
How is growth only possible if we move from the personal reconciliation (salvation) layer to include soul deliverance?
In a year of many trials, both collective and individual, where have you seen Christ address and resolve a broken part of a story through the trials?
Knowing that one could go to church their entire life and still be stuck with an undeveloped soul, what do you think are barriers to soul development, even in a spiritual setting?
Your spirit/soul/body is an ecosystem, when have you experienced one component affecting the other(s)?
How do you know your gifts, and what elements of them are affirmed by others?
Repeatedly Pastor Richard encourages us to continue learning and growing, especially in the context of community, do you have a sense of what your next step might be?
Salvation changes our relationship to systems. Take a moment to read about our church’s commitment to racial justice and reconciliation.
As every element of creation expresses the Creator; share a transcendent experience you have had in creation.