Mosaic Church

11 May Discussion Guide: How To Follow Jesus Christ Week 6

Posted at 12:47h 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 continue our 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

Following Jesus Through Failure

Discussion Questions

What is the difference between success and failure?

Mark 14:26-31

“And when they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives. And Jesus said to them, “You will all fall away, for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.’ But after I am raised up, I will go before you to Galilee.” Peter said to him, “Even though they all fall away, I will not.” And Jesus said to him, “Truly, I tell you, this very night, before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.” But he said emphatically, “If I must die with you, I will not deny you.” And they all said the same.”

What would you say success in God’s Kingdom looks like? What about failure?

Why do you think Peter responded the way he did?

Was Peter succeeding or failing here in this moment? Why do you say that?

C.S. Lewis

“Now we cannot…discover our failure to keep God’s law except by trying our very hardest (and then failing). Unless we really try, whatever we say there will always be at the back of our minds the idea that if we try harder next time we shall succeed in being completely good. Thus, in one sense, the road back to God is a road of moral effort, of trying harder and harder. But in another sense it is not trying that is ever going to bring us home. All this trying leads up to the vital moment at which you turn to God and say, “You must do this. I can’t.”

How can our fear of failure in the world’s eyes lead to actual failure from a Kingdom perspective?

But, how might God use that failure to bring about Kingdom success in and/or through your life?

How did Jesus use Peter’s failure here to bring about ultimate success in Peter’s life?

So then, what is the only way we can truly fail in God’s eyes?

Closing Thought

Is there an area in your life where you feel you have failed and have seen, or might need to see, Jesus redeem and resurrect back to a place of seeing His Kingdom come and His will being done in you as it is in Heaven?