Citywide Baptist Church
Next Steps: The source of hope
In this series of messages we are wanting to explore what it means to get real as followers of Jesus and to be honest about the journey to whole life that he invites us into.
Locations & Times
Citywide Baptist Church (Mornington)
400 Cambridge Rd, Mornington TAS 7018, Australia
Sunday 10:00 AM
In this past week we have been surprised by hope in the face of a little girl.
In a broken world, it is normal to want to distance yourself from pain by avoiding hope.
In a world where you feel like you have the answers you don't need hope.
In a broken world, it is normal to want to distance yourself from pain by avoiding hope.
In a world where you feel like you have the answers you don't need hope.
Hope truly matters
for many of us, our experience of pain has taught us not to believe in hope
The heart of our faith is the re-discovery of hope
It is our hope that will change the world
Growing faith
Our hope and focus on Jesus ultimately produces good behaviour
We want to be a people who take Jesus up on his promise
We want to be a church that truly reveres Christ as Lord and because we do, live in such a way that our hope produces questions.
Discussion Question:
What do you hope for?
What do you hope for?
Part 2 - Matt H
I want to encourage you that if you haven’t engaged deeply with this series and the study notes and the podcast - its worth diving into.
I thought Next Steps would be boring.
I was wrong.
I was wrong.
We are surely the most distracted generation of human beings that has ever lived.
This can lead us to a situation where we can find ourselves never fully committing ourselves to the things we’re doing.
When we’re like this, we fall into a Luke-warm kind of faith life.
This can lead us to a situation where we can find ourselves never fully committing ourselves to the things we’re doing.
When we’re like this, we fall into a Luke-warm kind of faith life.
We all have wrong beliefs that not only don’t line up with Jesus’ teaching but sometimes these beliefs don’t even line up with reality.
There is danger in calling ourselves Christians but not actually following Jesus.
It is very important to make time in our lives to reflect.
We often find God in the quiet spaces in our lives.
We often find God in the quiet spaces in our lives.
Picking up a new discipline is a hard thing to do.
We have a lack of mature Christians in our churches today.
Discipleship has fallen out of fashion.
Discipleship has fallen out of fashion.
Our measure for success should not be how many people come to a sunday service - it should be how many changed lives are we seeing.
We should be living questionable lives.
Small Group Questions:
1. What were your feelings when you heard Cleo had been found?
2. Have there been times when you lost hope? What was that like? What caused it?
3. Read both translations of Matthew 11:28-30. Does anything get to your heart as you hear those words?
4. WHat has been your experience of learning new disciplines? Encourage each other.
5. What does discipleship mean to you? Where have you experienced it?
6. What is something you personally have gotten out of this Next Steps series?
1. What were your feelings when you heard Cleo had been found?
2. Have there been times when you lost hope? What was that like? What caused it?
3. Read both translations of Matthew 11:28-30. Does anything get to your heart as you hear those words?
4. WHat has been your experience of learning new disciplines? Encourage each other.
5. What does discipleship mean to you? Where have you experienced it?
6. What is something you personally have gotten out of this Next Steps series?