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

Back to School: Calling

Discussion Questions

What is your favorite memory from when you were in school? Why?

What is one of your least favorite memories from when you were in school? Why?

What is the difference between those moments?

Acts 17:24-27

“The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything. And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place, that they should seek God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us…”

How does the idea that God has ordained the times and places you would live and dwell change the way you think about where you live, work, or go to school?

Why is it true that God is not far from the people around you who are feeling their way towards Him?

How might you, in the given contexts and environments you find yourself in on a daily basis, help others better see or experience the love of God that they are in search for?

Luke 3:2-6

“During the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John the son of Zechariah in the wilderness. And he went into all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall become straight, and the rough places shall become level ways, and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.’”  

John the Baptist was set apart from birth for a specific purpose for which God would call him to. The word Scripture uses to describe that “set apart-ness” is the word, “Holy.”

What doe you think it means to be set apart for God’s purpose?

What is God’s purpose for humanity, and therefore, for you?

Why is living a “holy” life difficult?

But, how can that kind of love for God and others bring healing and life into the brokenness and death in our world?

Closing Thought

How does the Gospel free us, and empower us, to love others, even those who make it most difficult, with the love of Christ?