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

Today, we begin a new series, launched on Easter Sunday, titled Not Alone. In this series we will be looking at how the Gospel gives us the promise of God’s presence, and the blessing of one another, as we go through life in the midst of a broken world. No matter how difficult life might get, the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus reminds us we are not alone

Today’s Topic

What is the Gospel?

Discussion Questions

Is there a time where you have ever felt alone?

‭‭1 Corinthians‬ ‭15:1-11

“Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep. Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me. For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me. Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.”
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Why do you think modern humanity seeks to live life, and pursue a utopian existence, apart from God and His design for life?

Why do we fail at this attempt time and time again, despite all the technological and medicinal advancements we have achieved?

What thoughts, feelings, emotions, and behaviors does that constant failing produce in our hearts and in our societies?

How does the Gospel stand in stark contrast to all of that?

C.S. Lewis

“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.”

Why might someone, maybe even you, have a hard time trusting in, and accepting the truth of the Gospel, that Jesus had to die for you because sin and the judgement it deserved?

Dr. Tim Keller

”The Gospel is that you were so bad that Jesus had to die for you, but you are so loved that He was glad to die for you.”

How might the view of Jesus’ substitution on our behalf change if we stop primarily seeing it through the lens of our sin, but rather through the lens of God love and righteousness in response to our sin?

‭‭2 Corinthians‬ ‭5:14-17

“For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died; and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised. From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard him thus no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.”

When you contemplate Jesus life how does it impact your heart?

When you contemplate Jesus life how does it impact your heart?

When you consider Jesus’ dying on the cross in your place, for your sins, how does it impact your heart?

When you remember that Jesus’ tomb is empty, and that He has been resurrected and today is seated on His throne ruling over the Universe today, how does that impact your heart?

Closing Thought

What do you think looks like for us to be Easter people living in a resurrected world today?