Before We Get Started

For our discussion today we will be using the sermon series discussion guides. If you would like to follow along you can access this discussion guide on the website at mosaicchurchaustin.com and then select “community group resources” in the menu options.

Prayer

Because the main goal of our time together is to establish relationships and learn how to walk with one another in all that God has called us to be and do, we’d like to begin by praying for one another. So, does anyone have anything you’d like us to pray for, or  anything to share regarding how you’ve seen God moving in your life that we can celebrate together.

This Week’s Topic

This week we continue our series titled Abide as are joining hundreds of churches from around the world within our Every Nation family to take a look at what it means to abide in Christ and to let His Word abide in us. .

Today’s Topic

What Are You Hungry For?

Discussion Questions

Has reality ever failed to meet your expectations (work, relationships, finances, etc.)? If so, how did that affect you?

John 6:32-35

“Jesus then said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” They said to him, “Sir, give us this bread always.” Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.”

What does it mean to hunger for something? 

How does it feel to not be able to obtain the thing you hunger for?

What are some things that people in our culture “hunger” for?

How do people tend to respond, or behave, when the thing they hunger for is either unobtainable, or doesn’t satisfy them?

What does it mean to hunger for Jesus?

How is Jesus different from any other thing we “hunger” for when it comes to being fulfilled and satisfied?

John 6:42-44,60-61

“They said, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’ ?” Jesus answered them, “Do not grumble among yourselves. No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day. When many of his disciples heard it, they said, “This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?” But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples were grumbling about this, said to them, “Do you take offense at this? “

Why do you think Jesus’ audience here was offended by His claim to be the “Bread of Heaven” that gives “eternal life?”

Why might someone in our culture today be offended by Jesus’ claim?

If you are a Christian, how have you experienced this “eternal life” in Jesus?

John 6:66-69

“After this many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him. So Jesus said to the twelve, “Do you want to go away as well?” Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life, and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God.””

Peter rightly states that there is nowhere else they will find eternal life other than in Jesus. How can we know that claim to be true about Jesus, and Jesus alone?

What is the difference between a belief that Jesus can provide eternal life, and the faith/trust that He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life?

If Jesus is who He claims to be, and did what history records He did by living, dying, and rising again, then what does that mean for us when it comes to the things we chase after in an attempt to satisfy the hunger of our heart and soul?

Closing Thought

(Ask this as a rhetorical question if you want) Is there anything other than Jesus you find yourself “hungering” for today? What is it about that thing that you think will satisfy you? How does Jesus actually provide the satisfaction that thing only says it will?