Mosaic Church

08 Apr Discussion Guide: How To Follow Jesus Christ Week 1

Posted at 22:43h in Community Group Resources by Mosaic Team

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 begin a new sermon series that will focus on what discipleship looks like through the lens of the life of the Apostle Peter. The series is titled How to Follow Jesus Christ. Over the the course of this series we will be discussing who it is that God has called us to be as Christians, the motivation behind that calling, and what that calling looks like when lived out in our every day lives.

Today’s Topic

The Great Exchange

Discussion Questions

What do you think it means to follow Jesus?

Luke 5:4-8

“And when he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.” And Simon answered, “Master, we toiled all night and took nothing! But at your word I will let down the nets.” And when they had done this, they enclosed a large number of fish, and their nets were breaking. They signaled to their partners in the other boat to come and help them. And they came and filled both the boats, so that they began to sink. But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord.”

Why do you think Peter fell down in repentance when he encountered the reality of Jesus in this moment?

Is that the average person’s response when hearing about, or thinking about, Jesus today? Why or why not?

If Jesus who who He claimed to be, then why should coming into the presence of Jesus make us come undone they way it did with Peter?

If you have ever had that kind of experience with God’s traumatic grace, how did God respond to your moment of brokenness?

Luke 5:9-11

“For he and all who were with him were astonished at the catch of fish that they had taken, and so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, “Do not be afraid; from now on you will be catching men.” And when they had brought their boats to land, they left everything and followed him.”

What does it mean to exchange something?

What did Peter exchange in order to follow Jesus?

What have you had to exchange to follow Jesus? Or perhaps, what might you need to exchange in order to follow Jesus?

Why is that exchange so difficult to make?

N.T. Wright

“When we begin to glimpse the reality of God, the natural reaction is to worship Him. Not to have that reaction is a fairly sure sign that we haven’t yet really understood who He is or what He’s done.”

Worship is exchanging some other desire of our hearts for the prioritization of Jesus. Like Peter did, worship is leaving the thing we had been putting our hope in behind so that we can follow Jesus.

If you’ve made that exchange, has it been worth it? Why?

Closing Thought

The Church is meant to be a community of worshippers, disciples who are willing to follow Jesus no matter what it costs. What kind of impact might a community like that have on the world around us?