Christ Community Leawood
The Final Judgement - 9 & 10:45am & ON-DEMAND
CONVERSATION STARTERS
Conversation Starters help us dig deeper, connecting Sunday’s sermons with our Monday lives. These prompts have been designed to help Community Groups grow in their relationship with God, with one another, and with their neighbors. Please know that these questions are meant to be a resource to you. You do not have to follow them verbatim or get through them all. We trust you to know your group and to ask the questions based on your group needs.
1) What stood out to you from the sermon?
2) In the old sitcom “Maude”, Bea Arthur’s character was known to shut people down by saying, “God will get you for that.” In what ways was she right? How do people react to the idea of a God who judges everyone and everything?
3) A neighbor tells you, “There is no Hell. God forgives.” What questions can you ask them to show there is a line of no forgiveness, and where there is the possibility to cross it.
4) “Be careful what you ask for--you might just get it.” In what ways does this describe people’s choice about their relationship with God and their final destiny?
5) People often admit that they are far from perfect, but are counting on God “grading on the curve”. How would you describe to them how God really “grades”? And with that standard, how would you explain what it takes to get an “A”?
Revelation 19:11-21 ESV
Revelation 20:1-15 ESV
Title: The Final Judgement
Scripture: Revelation 19:11-20:15
Speaker: Andrew Jones, AndrewJ@ChristCommunityKC.org
>> What’s the good news about judgment?
>> Judgment is good news because it means life makes sense.
>> Judgment is good news because it deals with evil.
>> What is the bad news about judgement?
If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
>> What is the best news about judgment?