LIFEGROUP DISCUSSION GUIDE
ExpandPastor Derek opened today talking about revolutionaries throughout history.
-- Who are some revolutionaries you remember and why?
Read Ephesians 4:17-25
-- What jumps out to you from this passage?
Our text looks at how the church should conduct itself in a culture that does not know Christ in order to influence the culture with the Gospel...
-- In what ways do you think the church is influencing culture?
-- In what ways do you think culture is influencing the church… for the better, / for the worse?
Derek mentioned “False Gospels” that put Jesus in man-made ideological boxes.
-- What boxes are we tempted to put Jesus in?
-- How does the unfiltered Jesus of the Bible shatter those boxes?
Derek mentioned that in our fallen flesh, we not only are gullible to deception, but our flesh & hearts are so corrupt we actually crave deception.
-- Do you see examples of this in our culture?
Derek mentioned that the world is already at odds with the church because of sin, but that Satan works in the church to put it at odds with the world.
--How do you think that can happen?
Our text says for EVERYONE to speak truth to his neighbor.
-- Is this an easy task?
-- What makes it difficult, or what ways have you been able to share that truth?