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Questions for Reflection/Discussion: 1. How would you fill in the blank to this statement: “God is __________”? What thoughts, information and experiences have most influenced your response? 2. Read the first 5 verses of Psalm 103. What posture does David begin with? Why do you think this is the case? What is your typical posture towards God? Why do you think this is the case? 3. In Psalm 103, David describes God’s character as Forgiver, Healer, Redeemer, Crowner, Satisfier and Renewer. Which of these character traits do you most attribute to God and why? Which of these might you struggle to attribute to God and why? 4. What, according to Scripture, is Jesus’s role in demonstrating the above five attributes of God? 5. What is one way that you might kneel before/praise/remember God today?

Questions for Discussion: 1. If you have not done so already, please take the gifts survey. 2. What are some things that you are passionate about? Gifted in? 3. What experiences (sufferings, successes, failures, etc.) has God used to grow you? In what ways might these experiences be used to point others to Jesus? To help build up others in the family of faith? Others outside the family of faith? 4. What barriers might you be facing with respect to bearing fruit in every way and in every good work through Jesus? 5. Read Colossians 1:9-14. In verse 12 Paul/Timothy bring up an “inheritance” that Jesus has qualified His followers for a share in. What do you think this inheritance consists of? If you follow Jesus, in what ways are you stewarding this inheritance now? 6. What next steps might you take this week to bless God, the body of Christ, and the world in every way and every good work?

Questions for Reflection/Discussion: 1. What stuck out to you? 2. What further questions does it raise? 3. What does it say about Jesus? 4. How will you respond personally? 5. With whom / how can you share this?

Questions for Reflection/Discussion: 1. Verse 4 talks about being 'In Christ' - how do you know if you are 'In Christ?' 2. What is one area that God has empowered you to show the good news of Jesus in everyday life? (how has God changed your everyday life through the good news of Jesus?) 3. What is one area that God still needs to empower you to show the good news of Jesus in everyday life? 4. How might Jesus speak encouragement to you in the midst of that struggle? What would be 'good news?' 5. What are some of the supports that help you to continue to be pointed from 'be you, do you, for you' to 'Christ in you, Christ through you, for others?' Share as a group what that looks like in your everyday life? 6. How do you still desire to see the good news of Jesus bear fruit through your everyday life and the everyday life of our family at Kettlebrook?

Questions for Reflection/Discussion: 1. When you hear the word “father” what comes to mind (memories, images, experiences, feelings)? How would you describe your earthly father? 2. In what ways has your earthly father reflected (or not reflected) God the Father? 3. Read Colossians 1:1-6a. What can we learn from these verses about what Paul (& Timothy) believe about God? 4. When you think of “family” what comes to mind? How would you describe your family? 5. It was noted that sin is everything from “murder” to “meh”. In what ways might you be “meh” when it comes to God? Why do you think this is the case? What are the implications? 6. In what ways is the gospel good news for eternity? How is this possible? 7. If you are “in Christ”, in what ways are you currently engaged in family that is “in Christ”? If you are not engaged, what might it look like for you to take a step in that direction?

Questions Discussion: 1. What stuck out to you? 2. What further questions does it raise? 3. What does it say about Jesus? 4. How will you respond personally? 5. With whom / how can you share this?

Reflection Questions: 1.Looking back, what is one way that you have seen God at work in your own heart and life? 2. Looking ahead, what is one step you can take to become less, and for Jesus to become greater in your life? Questions Discussion: 1. As you look back over your journey of faith so far in 2019, what milestones are most prominent? What have been some recent victories? Recent struggles? If you are struggling to come up with milestones, why do you think that is? 2. As you look ahead and think about your journey of faith, what are you most excited about and why? What are you anxious about and why? 3. Read John 10:40-42. What do we learn about the ministry of John the Baptist that might inform our own ministry as individuals and as a family? What was the outcome in verse 42? 4. What is one way that you might seek to speak truth about Jesus and point others to Jesus (as John the Baptist did) in your own life in this next week/month/year?

Questions for Reflection/Discussion: 1. Has anyone ever stood in the way of your understanding of, or relationship with God? What was that like for you? 2. In what ways might you have done something like this in someone else’s life? 3. Read Acts chapter 11. In this chapter, racism, legalism, and consumerism seek to keep the gospel from others. In what ways have these three things influenced your faith journey? 4. Which of the above observations from this chapter are the most inspiring to you? Convicting? Why? 5. In what ways did Jesus model these observations for us when He walked the earth? 6. In what ways could you apply these observations in your own home and life this week?

Questions for Reflection/ Discussion: 1) What is the inherent power within us? Who has given us this power? 2) Where in your coming to faith with Jesus have you seen Him show you His power? 3) What 1 step should you take from this message to get in touch with the power of the Holy Spirit dwelling in you?

Questions for Reflection/ Discussion: 1. What stuck out to you? 2. What further questions does it raise? 3. What does it say about Jesus? 4. How will you respond personally? 5. With whom / how can you share this?

Questions for Reflection/Discussion: 1. Have you ever experienced a “honeymoon” phase in a relationship? What was that like? 2. What, in your life, would you say that you are continually devoted to? 3. In what ways, if any, would you say that you are devoted to God? What does that look like? 4. What possessions and goods might you have that you could share with others in need? What step could you take to do that? 5. In what ways (if any) are you engaging in the kind of fellowship described in today’s text? 6. John Stott says that “Those first Jerusalem Christians were not so preoccupied with learning, sharing, and worshipping, that they forgot about witnessing?" How about you? Would the same be said of you? Why or why not? 7. Who are you seeking to demonstrate the good news of Jesus to within the context of the rhythms of your life? 8. In what ways is the life you are living compelling enough to cause others to ask questions? How might you be able to point them to Jesus when they do?

Questions for Reflection/ Discussion: 1. What stuck out to you? 2. What further questions does it raise? 3. What does it say about Jesus? 4. How will you respond personally? 5. With whom/ how can you share this?

Questions for Reflection/ Discussion 1. Read Acts 1:1-11. Try to retell the story in your own words or have a few people in a group do so. What do you learn about God from this passage? What do you learn about people (ourselves)? 2. Imagine what it must have been like during the 40 days with Jesus (v.3). What would you have liked to ask Jesus during that time? What would you have liked to hear from Jesus during that time? 3. What did Jesus actually talk about during these days (v.3)? What do you think he said about that particular subject? 4. What were the disciples going to receive after Jesus ascended to heaven? Why is that important? What was Jesus’ expectation about what would be a normal and natural outcome of this (v.8)? 5. What do you think it means to be a witness? How does that look here in America in 2019? 6. What is one way you would like to bear witness to Jesus this summer? How can the group help you to do that?

Questions for Reflection/Discussion: 1. In what ways (if any) does your life rhythm change in summertime? In what ways would you maybe wish it would change? 2. Re-read 1 Timothy 3:1-3. Of the characteristics that Paul lists for leaders of the family of faith, which of these stick out to you and why? 3. Why do you think “hospitable” made the list of these important qualities/characteristics? 4. Share a time when someone has been intentionally and radically hospitable to you. What was that like for you? 5. What barriers get in the way of you being hospitable (or more hospitable)? 6. How, according to the Scriptures has God been intentionally and radically hospitable? In what ways should this inform and motivate our hospitality? 7. What might be some ways you can be intentionally hospitable this summer? With who might you be intentionally hospitable this summer?

Questions for Reflection/ Discussion: 1. What stuck out to you? 2. What further questions does it raise? 3. What does it say about Jesus? 4. How will you respond personally? 5. With whom/ how can you share this?

Questions for Reflection/ Discussion: 1. If you are a follower of Jesus, when did you become aware of the Holy Spirit’s presence in your life? What was that like? What difference did it make? 2. We often make the assumption that once we become a follower of Jesus, all our problems will go away and we’ll just automatically become ‘better’ people. What is wrong with that assumption? 3. Read Galatians 5:16-17. What are the two dynamics in conflict with each other? How have you seen this in your own life? 4. In Galatians 5:19-21 Paul lists a varied list of specific behaviors typical of our ‘flesh’ (sinful nature). Each one of us has our own proclivities towards some of these more than others. Which ones do you naturally lean towards. Do you know why? 5. Once the Holy Spirit takes up residence 1. in our lives, he goes through the ‘house’ of our life and points out things/areas that need work or need to be changed out. What do you want him to change out in your life right now? 6. Verse 24 says that t