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 continue our new series titled, Reversal. We will be taking some time to walk through the Gospel account of Luke. Luke was an historian who set out to document the life, ministry, death, and resurrection of Jesus, and the impact it had on the world of his day. What we see in Luke’s account is that when Jesus gets involved in the life of a person, things get turned upside-down and inside-out. Jesus brings about a reversal of everything we thought we knew.

Today’s Topic

Confusing

Discussion Questions

Has Jesus ever done anything in your life that left you feeling confused? If so, would you mind sharing?

Luke 2:45-49

“When they did not find him, they went back to Jerusalem to look for him. 46 After three days they found him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. 47 Everyone who heard him was amazed at his understanding and his answers. 48 When his parents saw him, they were astonished. His mother said to him, “Son, why have you treated us like this? Your father and I have been anxiously searching for you.” 49 “Why were you searching for me?” he asked. “Didn’t you know I had to be in my Father’s house?”

In the Sermon, Pastor Morgan mentioned that Bible commentators here say Jesus is making one thing clear to Mary and to Joseph and to us: He is saying, my relationship with you is secondary to my relationship to my Father. He is saying, “I don’t exist for you; you exist for me.” 

Why might someone have a hard time with the idea that God doesn’t  exist for us, we exist for him?

How does that idea challenge you at times?

What does that challenge tell us about us? About God?

But, why is it vitally important that we grasp that Truth? And how is God being in that place of glory (the purpose of our existence), rather than us, actually better?

Elisabeth Elliot

“I dethrone Him if I demand He act in ways that satisfy my ideas. God is God. If He is God, He is worthy of my worship and my service. I will find no rest except in His will, and that will is infinitely, immeasurably, unspeakably beyond my wildest notion of what He is up to.”

How might that realization help us navigate those confusing challenges God allows to happen in our lives?

Luke 2:50-51

“But they did not understand what he was saying to them. Then he went down to Nazareth with them and was obedient to them. But his mother treasured all these things in her heart.”

Does our ability to understand what Jesus is doing in our lives, or the lack thereof, change who He is or what He ultimately wants for our lives? 

How can realizing that His character and love for us are both unchanging impact our ability to navigate those confusing and challenging times in our lives?

How does His life, death, and resurrection prove to us that we can trust Him with our present and our future even when it doesn’t make sense to us?

Closing Thought

Is there a challenge in your life right now that you are confused about? If so, what would it look like for you to treasure and trust Him in this moment?